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The News from today.
The news came in about an hour ago; the States of Guernsey will buy Aurigny. 38 to 2 voted to buy the airline today after shareholders rejected offers to finance the Gatwick slots. Therefore a deal was passed today that would see Aurigny being bought by the States for £5 million with an extra £2 million for fees and operational costs. This will be the first airline ever to be nationalised.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3025669.stm

Consequences:
The consequences of this are very concerning and no doubt history will judge their wisdom. The buyout will seriously effect Flybe’s business over here because it is unfair competition, they are threatening to pull services. Le Cocq’s are threatening to pull out as well and will now not expand from Guernsey to new destinations in France. Le Cocq’s will also now consider whether or not to compete with Aurigny on the JER-ACI route.

My opinion:
Absolutely saddened at the decision. Why should we be forced to pay for an airline when Flybe. could of taken those slots? Why they were never informed or given a chance to gain the slots is another question that comes to mind? This is very unfair to have this sort of States-subsidised monopoly. Moreover, there will be problems in fairness when it comes to route licensing, how the hell can the States remain impartial if it was both licensor and owner of an airline? I would also like to know why as a Guernsey resident what justifies the £5 million purchase? They have broken even sure but that is not the gain of return that a venture capitalist would like to see.
So here we go, look at Aeroflot in the last few decades and see an image of The Channel Islands future aviation industry.

Wysiwyg,
I agree partly that British European’s enthusiasm is no longer there for the Channel Islands with the recent threats of route closures and frequency changes, if they were purely commited to the Channel Islands then possibly it would be a different matter. However, as their business plan has changed towards a low cost structure and they have expanded in Europe then yes, maybe the C.I. have been downgraded in priority. Nevertheless I still think Flybe are interested enough in the Channel Islands to deserve these slots. They have provided a highly faithful service to Gatwick for many years and are still very popular and going strong. Why should they not get the slots if they are still very much interested?
The name change was due to their expansion and have they not for many recent years been operating Exeter as a base and still faithly serving the islands whereas as Exeter, what service?

Aurigny are a good airline, reliable and 100% island orientated which is good, however, I just think that the current situation would be bad for the islands airlinks if they were bought up by the government.

Flybe. Should have received those slots. The licence system would of been much better and would of stopped the States getting involved in Aurigny and yes, it has worked well for the ferry services. I only hope that tomorrow’s decision is against buying Aurigny as on the whole it would be a better offer to safeguard airlinks rather the proposed option.
It would be an unfair operation and would risk, as said, our future airlinks that are oh so vital.

What about Kuwait Airways, PIA, Uzbekistan and Air India who all use airports to connect to the US?

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I believe so yes. I think most of their 146s are on active service elsewhere considering they seem to have an aircraft shortage.