Trip Report:My Day In Jersey

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Carl727, you are totally right about the route not being well catered for. Although we Jersey does have the Liverpool charters I do think that a schedule route would be a good and profitable idea for an airline (it also could serve Guernsey, which would be nice)
Not many regional UK operators fly or consider flying into Liverpool because of its proximity to Manchester which the airlines see as a more profitable location to fly from
So that really does only leave EasyJet (unless Euro Celtic or Aurigny wanted to fly an LPL-Channel Islands route)
Two years a go the JTA gave EasyJet a license to operate JER-LTN, however the recurring problem with the Channel Islands is that the landing fees and airport taxes are to high for a low cost airline to give low prices, so they have been kept away. The only way in which we passengers would be able to get low cost flights is by offering flights at unrealistic times such as 4 in the morning, or if the idiotic States members realise that their inability to lower taxes at both GCI and JER is forcing tourists not to travel to the Channel Islands because you can get a flight to New York for the price it takes to get here! This in term will kill what ever is left of our crumbling tourism industry, yet we can save it by offering cheaper taxes to these airlines. But oh no they say this will upset British European and British Airways, we can’t offer low prices to EasyJet and Ryanair otherwise it would be unfair to the others…. There really is know winning. This is why LPL and the Channel Islands are unlikely to be served which is a shame for the locals are for our tourism industry.
The other night the Brother of the Ryanair chief executive was over in Jersey at a passenger meeting. They discussed the bonuses of low cost travel. They even admitted that they would be extremely keen to operate to the C.I.’s, but because them and the States do not agree and fail to see things in the same light they cannot operate over here. £50 was the price they could offer us to STN compared to £150 to LGW with BA.
At the moment our tourism industry is dying because of reasons mentioned above. Hotels being knocked down, tourist attractions going and people loosing jobs, this really is sad, yet could be stopped or steadied with the introduction of low cost flights. A prime example of this is Cornwall. Before Ryanair started operations to Newquay, the tourism industry over there was the same as over here (also new attractions did help). Every year the South West tourism figures showed less and less people coming. This year with the introduction of Ryanair flights to STN and the prospect of flights to Dublin things never looked better for them and it could be the same over here.
I’ve probably gone off totally what I was saying but everything above is totally true!

RE: Trip Report:My Day In Jersey

BMI have stopped their LPL-JER route this year which is not good, it had operated for years. Now we just have some weekend charters. The route is not well catered for.

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Really?I’ve been checking flights up to LBA and on OAG,flybmi.com and yahoo travel and this is what they say:
Flight BD 1724 – bmi british midland Aircraft 735
Depart Jersey, Jersey Dep. Time 12:25pm Jun 15
Arrive Leeds Bradford, Leeds Bradford Arr. Time 01:35pm Jun 15
Travel Time 1 hour 10 mins Total Stops None

Flight BD 1024 – bmi british midland Aircraft ER4
Depart Jersey, Jersey Dep. Time 04:45pm Jun 15
Arrive Leeds Bradford, Leeds Bradford Arr. Time 06:00pm Jun 15
Travel Time 1 hour 15 mins Total Stops None

Flight BD 1484 – bmi british midland Aircraft ER4
Depart Jersey, Jersey Dep. Time 06:10pm Jun 15
Arrive Leeds Bradford, Leeds Bradford Arr. Time 07:20pm Jun 15
Travel Time 1 hour 10 mins Total Stops None

I guess there must be three schedule flights on a saturday and the rest are charter?

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u’re joking!! – here are all the LBA-JER Flights!!

Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1012 0725 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1012 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1154 1025 X X X X X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1154 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1014 1025 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1014 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1022 – 1040 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1022 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford VG 457 – 1105 X Fokker 50 Rubans 457 VLM
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1234 1120 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1234 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey VG 458 – 1135 X Fokker 50 Rubans 458 VLM
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1294 1220 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1294 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford BD 1724 – 1335 X Boeing 737-500 Midland 1724 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1024 – 1340 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1024 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1354 1340 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1354 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1184 – 1350 X X X X X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1184 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1124 1410 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1124 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey BD 1714 1415 – X Boeing 737-500 Midland 1714 bmi reg
Leeds/Bradford Jersey WRI 1234 1420 – X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1234 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1484 – 1520 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1484 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1384 – 1645 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1384 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1264 – 1715 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1264 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1204 – 1720 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1204 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1024 – 1800 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1024 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1204 – 1820 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1204 bmi reg
Jersey Leeds/Bradford WRI 1484 – 1920 X Embraer RJ145 Reva 1484 bmi reg

Ignore the Reva/WRI Flight codes – i’m the CSO for a VA and it’s based on RW Flighrts – there are from bmi scheds

RE: Trip Report:My Day In Jersey

Theres only 3 bmi flights to JER from LBA in the summer which surprised me,also there is the VLM flight.

RE: Trip Report:My Day In Jersey

well on a Sat Leeds has about 6 EMB-145 flights to JER as well as B735 with bmi and a VLM FK50 – so mist of em will b LBA flights!