RE: Trip Report:My Day In Jersey

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!