Aurigny Air Services-3
 

Intriguingly Teesside, Newcastle, Aberdeen and Belfast City have appeared in Aurigny's timetable section with Southampton listed as the destination. No flights appear to have been loaded. Likely just a glitch?

Are they part of the code share with Eastern airways https://www.business-live.co.uk/econ...y-19055329.amp

Does the new MD see money to be made with routes other than GCI originating I wonder?

Southampton to Teesside is a dormant Eastern airlines route.

Jerbourg

Well, unless the States are going to continue bailing them out, ad infinitum, they are going to have to find some somewhere !

Aero Mad

They are codesharing with Eastern, which may explain it.

Slightly Different
 

This is a slightly different view of Aurigny, the staff and aircraft.

Bravo Aurigny !
 

Love it ! I had suggested on Facebook to Aurigny a couple of weeks ago that they should try and do a Jerusalema and Jess Mauger replied to say they are on it !

Am I missing something ? Seems pretty pointless to me. More taxpayers’ money down the drain ?

Oh wonderbold...Is this what passes for entertainment these days??..Nearly as daft as grown people pouring buckets of ice over each other...

Channel Islands’ carriers reveal post-Covid codeshare plan | Travel Weekly

Interesting idea (...& maybe a cunning ploy to keep any resumption by FlyBe at bay?)

All done in house by their staff why the skies were closed

kcockayne

Doubt if much extra expenditure was incurred. But, judging by the response on social media, the public's response has been very favourable.

Another fiasco ! We saw that with the Jersey route code-share. Dumped, lets be frank, because BI had a new JV with Flybe.

Aurigny must get a deal struck with BA ! That will improve greatly the island's connectivity. And now is the best time to get a deal done ! Failing that, they why not with KLM/AF as Southampton has the KLM connection now.

Fair enough, if that’s what the staff want to do - & it is good to see them having some pride & support for the airline - but it does nothing for me. However, it’s not me who they’ve got to impress.

Aurigny to provide a Dornier to ZeroAvia. Anyone know if this is the fate of G-SAYE? https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospa...144365.article

In other news, a route to Mallorca is being mulled for Sundays in August.

What about the proposed trial of the ATR on the Alderney routes - is this really going to happen ?

Can the ATR operate off Alderney’s runway?

It was mentioned on the Channel TV news yesterday, but I may not have taken it all in correctly. Maybe they will trial the ATR IF the States approve a runway extension at Alderney. The way I thought I heard it was that AUR management were saying that they would consider the trial ( no mention of R/W extension).

Thou hath got thyself into a bit of a muddle.

The runways can’t handle ATR 72s. From a length perspective an ATR 42 (possibly with the additional thrust package) well below MTOW could use the runway but the runway and apron are insufficient in terms of strength and I imagine width.

The idea will be to look at the ATR’s tolerance for Alderney from an operational point of view, ie wind-shear over the cliffs on approach to runway 08, etc.

Thanks for enlightening me. It’s sometimes noisy in our house, & I thought that maybe I’d got it wrong. Interesting development, though. If AUR were ever to use ATRs, frequency of service would drop rather dramatically !

Guernsey - Dublin announced from March 29 2022 twice per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays although the email they sent says they could look at starting it earlier depending on travel restrictions

I hope BHD is next

Looking forward to travelling back on business this month :ok:

From today (1 July), fully vaccinated people travelling into Guernsey from the UK, Jersey, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland will be exempt from all testing and isolation requirements.But 12 to 17-year-olds travelling with them will have to test on arrival and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.

Tests cost £25 each and results are known within 48 hours.

Those who have not been double-jabbed at least a fortnight before travelling will still have to test and isolate depending on where they have travelled from.

Any idea why BI are operating some of their daily SOU routes now? I assume it’s something to do with them working together but still really odd considering their own much newer ATRs aren’t exactly being used much. Such a strange airline.

Blue have no flights for sale on their own website for this month at all, strange considering they have to codeshare in place & are flying the route.

Does not appear to be any news on what’s going on. Surely it would make sense for GR to do the Guernsey routes and Blue Islands to do the Jersey ones. GR’s ATRs seem to be doing max one flight a day and often none at all. Why would they be happy for BI to be operating their flights for them when their own aircraft are hardly being used? Not sure how they can have such mindless management.

Aero Mad

Looks like it will indeed be G-SAYE being sold to ZeroAvia.

Was the EVS (enhanced vision system) reported on Aurigny-2. back in December 2018 ever certified on the new ATRs? If it was what has been the impact on CAT 1 minima?

Codes shares to be announced soon it seems, my bet is BA & EK for starters..

"Exciting code shares" to be concluded imminently | Bailiwick Express

Most of the Summer 2022 schedule has been released, not looked in depth yet as to how it all pieces together but:

Birmingham x8 weekly (double daily on Thursday)
Bristol x6 weekly (no Wednesdays)
Dublin has been upgraded to x3 weekly with a Saturday flight alonside the Tuesday and Thursday flights.
East Midlands - x4 Weekly (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday)
Exeter - x7 weekly (x2 on Wednesdays, no flights on Saturdays
Gatwick - x6 daily on weekdays, x5 daily at weekends, 602/603 & 604/605 and also 606/607 & 608/609 are timed within 60 minutes of each other to allow for Southampton (start) and Exeter (end of the day) flights but capacity-wise that is offset with the Embraer getting used elsewhere for part of the week.
Leeds/ Bradford is still x2 weekly but the flights are now Monday and Saturday.
Malaga - Wednesdays Mid-July to Mid-September on the Embraer
Manchester reduced to x10 weekly - Monday-Thursday is reduced to just a daily flight, but operated by the Embraer (apart from the Wednesdays its doing Malaga).

Southampton is still to be added in (will continue to be a code share with Blue Islands) and presume we will have to wait to see if Norwich and Stansted return - no mention of either so far but wonder if Norwich will replace the 602/603 on Sundays like it used to do.

Aurigny, Loganair and Blue Islands announce a partnership. Quite wide ranging from codeshares through to joint purchasing.

https://www.blueislands.com/news/pos...-connectivity/

Its great to see Aurigny and Blue Islands working together constructively. All three have niche markets and both LM and Aurigny have very strong brands / reputations within their local communities and Blue Islands is evidently trying to build those ties in Jersey. The three of them working together will no doubt make a comeback by Flybe a little more tricky, and possibly less viable. Interesting to see Eastern are left alone, plodding along.

Didn't Aurigny agree a code share deal with Eastern?

Evidently GR saw sense and joined the forward thinking, cautious duo rather than sticking it out with T3 who seem to come up with the oddest ideas and give it a go..... The partnership will no doubt benefit all the regions but could well really contribute to GR limiting loses and hopefully attracting more people to Guernsey / making it easier for Guernsey locals to travel.

Eastern have appointed Aurigny as their ground handling agent at LGW for the upcoming NQY service.

A Scillies Skybus Twin Otter arrived at GCI today & has been operating the ACI route.

yeah they’ve got a standby contract until Christmas to cover tech issues and scheduled maintenance on the Dornier

Flight GCI-IOM-INV
 

I see that G-OGFC is currently on its way GCI-IOM. Last week it did this then on to Inverness before returning to GCI. Can anyone explain what this about?

Yeah a golf charter i believe from the IOM-INV. Tickets sold on the GCI-IOM & IOM-GCI sectors