RE: Channel Island services

Thanks for all the info ! I do not know any of the CI well. Last time I was there I went for a long weekend in GCI, and spent quite a bit of time on the beach at Herm, which was very nice. At that time we had a very handy service operated by Air Corbiere. It was daily from Liverpool to the CI and we stopped at Coventry on the way, but I dont remember any stop on the return. I know they also stopped at Gloucester instead of Coventry on some flights. We flew on a Metroliner, although I beleive they substituted this with other aircraft from their fleet from time to time. This included a DC3 one day, which i understand slightly alarmed the awaiting passengers in LPL !! Great shame they stopped operating the route as I understand it was quite well supported, it even operated through the winter months .

Carl

RE: Keenair

I understand that Emerald Airways have the largest fleet anywhere of HS 748. They used them a few years ago to operate a scheduled service LPL-IOM and for a very short time LPL-WAT. The IOM route operated for quite a while. Thewy offered really good fares, and boosted passengers on that route. Manx didnt like it, as LPL-IOM is there biggest route, they made life quite tuff for them and Emerald gave up. Since then they have reverted back to a mainly cargo airline.

Carl

(potted history for you !!! 🙂

RE: Keenair

It was quite sudden when BE pulled out, no announcment or anything. A Blackpool based carried took over the route for a while, their name escapes me for the moment, something like “saphire” or “soverign” can’t quite remember. Anyway they went out of business, which is wy Keenair took over the route I guess.

Keenair are very new to scheduled services, they were mainly concerned with private charters etc. They also do mail contracts I beleive.

Yes I think you are right, Emerald may operate some freight flights out of BLK. They were once called Janes Aviation and were based in BLK. They then moved to LPL and altered their name to Emerald because of the fact they were heavily involved with flights to Ireland. Emerald also have quite a large presence at Coventry.

RE: Keenair

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-01-02 AT 05:48 PM (GMT)]Yes I think that is right. They started offering a Cork flight from Liverpool around spring last year. It operates on Fridays and Sundays only. They had talked about adding a Monday rotation, however this has not happened as yet. Possibly because they have taken over the Irish Sea route from Blackpool. I think they are now the only scheduled operator out of BLK. Things were different there once with JEA, Manx and Loganair operating out of there. Before that there was a company called Spacegrand. Some charter flights are offered to Spannish destinations. The new terminal at BLK isn’t bad, big improvement on the old war-time facility before.

RGDS

Carl