Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
Aurigny will wet-lease a BAe146-200 from the 4th in Jul03 through the 1st week in Sep03. The aircraft will operate on Saturdays and Sundays on 1 London Stansted flight and 3 Manchester flights.
Theres the confirmation u’ve been looking for upon the a/c – i believe it was to be a Titan a/c?
By: EGNM - 27th January 2003 at 21:33
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
Thanx for that SAAB
By: Saab 2000 - 27th January 2003 at 18:05
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
No. Aurigny do not operate JER/GCI to SOU. The GCI route is operated by Flybe. and JER is operated by British Airways and in March Flybe. as well. Aurigny used to operate JER to SOU charters in the summer, however, these stopped last year.
By: EGNM - 26th January 2003 at 22:08
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ah right i see, i thought Aurigny ran from JER, GCI and ALD to SOU – was going to say that’d really give them a blow!
By: Saab 2000 - 26th January 2003 at 13:17
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
JER-BOH has been operated twice daily with an Islander since October. GCI flights are subject to approval, however, should not be of any competition to Aurigny because the only route they operate close to BOH is SOU from Alderney.
By: EGNM - 26th January 2003 at 13:12
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
Aren’t Le-cocs applying for routes from BOH to JER and GCI? – that’ll be competition for them!
By: Saab 2000 - 25th January 2003 at 18:23
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Oh how right you are Wysiwyg! If only you had seen the fuss Aurigny made over Le Cocqs receiving a license to fly ACI-JER. They argued that there was not enough business for two carriers and it would result in Aurigny having to cut their frequency. A month later Aurigny upped the frequency on the route saying there was an increase in passenger numbers. Strange, Le Cocqs never did start the route. However, as you can see Aurigny has never been used to competition and in this case was in complete dismay about what they should do.
However, Le Cocqs does not possess the biggest threat to Aurigny neither does any airline. The airlines biggest threat is none other than Condor! It shows something when a one-hour ferry can pull in the Aurigny passengers. The inter island passenger numbers were dropping and the prices were getting higher because of increased security and increased operation fees, therefore, people were getting tired of paying over the roof prices for a 20 minute flight and moved to the ferry. This definitely scared Aurigny and has forced them to rethink their strategies. Now they have low fares galore with £25 on the inter island flights and as low as £84 on the UK flights.
This just shows Aurigny’s weakness and unease to competition. They have to get used to competition so it can remain competitive and to still sustain good loads and ultimately not to suffer another shock when they get further competition.
By: EGNM - 25th January 2003 at 12:17
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Yep – same sort of deabate with BA as i put in a topis yesterday with bmi – an airline what wants to serve regional airports!
By: wysiwyg - 25th January 2003 at 09:39
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-01-03 AT 09:39 AM (GMT)]I have long felt that Aurigny’s biggest weakness is that for 30 years they operated almost solely inter-island with no real significant competition which has made the company lazy and not keen enough to reduce their ticket price. This sit back fat, dumb and happy approach can be illustrated by the fact that we used to forever complain that last summer’s inflight magazine would make it into the seat backs by the following winter. All we would get was apathy. If Aurigny is serious about upping the ante they need to either replace some of the staid locals at the top with airline experienced driven individuals or spend money on training them properly.
To a degree I can understand ticket prices being higher on small capacity aircraft but I would be disappointed if Aurigny kept prices high if they permanently operated 146’s.
By: Saab 2000 - 25th January 2003 at 09:19
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Yes I would hope so Wysiwyg. The loss of airlinks to the island would hopefully give incentive to Aurigny to safeguard further regional airoutes.
I think that if an island or area wants to maintain domestic route which are paramount to a regions economy and local convenience, then it has to think local rather than global. The good thing with Aurigny is that they are based and primarily for the Channel Islands and so have them at their priority. However, British Airways seem to have a global outlook rather than domestic, thus Guernsey and the other islands cannot depend on them to sustain our vital links.
By: wysiwyg - 24th January 2003 at 19:59
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Very interesting news. I hope it spurs the company on in that direction. However I worry that Aurigny are not aggressive enough in their marketing to sustain a 146 through the leaner periods.
You have to wonder whether this experience combined with a possible withdrawal by BA could mean that Aurigny are starting to think big.
By: Saab 2000 - 24th January 2003 at 18:07
RE: Aurigny confirms the wet-lease of BAe146-200
Yes this is what I have heard. It is for the extra capacity needed during the summer season on the GCI flights. Last year we recieved the ATR-42 but it is much more exciting this year! It will be a Titan BAe 146, which I have seen before operating on behalf of Flybe.
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