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Saturday 15th September saw the end of a hugely successful summer 2018 charter season which has seen over 2,000 visitors fly from Rotterdam and Zurich to the Channel Islands on charter flights operated by Blue Islands, on behalf of its tour operator partners. “As a locally based airline, Blue Islands is proud to be chosen by two specialist tour operators to operate charter flights to Guernsey…

New partner airlines with complimentary networks join Worldwide by easyJet, selling stand-alone tickets on easyJet’s website. Italian long haul airline NEOS signed up to offer flights from Italy to a range of exciting holiday destinations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East.  Guernsey’s airline Aurigny signed up as a partner airline provides Channel Island services…

Guernsey-based airline Aurigny is delighted to announce the official launch of it's easyJet’s partnership through the innovative connections service called ‘Worldwide by easyJet’. ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ is the first global connections service by a European low fares airline. It means that customers can easily connect Aurigny’s London Gatwick service with easyJet flights around Europe…

Repairs to our hold baggage X-ray screening equipment are continuing with UK engineers attempting to fix the fault with the unit. Unfortunately, new parts are needed from the UK or further afield in order to fix the problem. Guernsey Airport is therefore asking passengers due to travel tonight and tomorrow to allow plenty of time to check-in, and go through security for their flights.   Ash…

Guernsey Airport would like to thank passengers, business partners, airlines, and all other parties involved in this morning’s issue with our X-ray hold baggage machine which suffered from techinical problems since Sunday (23rd September).   Guernsey Airport staff, airline and security staff were ready to process passengers earlier than normal at around 5.45am to deal with any possible…

The 2018 Crimestoppers Runway Run is on Saturday (22nd Sept) at Guernsey Airport! Make sure you check in on time and don’t forget anything important (don’t worry you can leave your passport at home!) we’ve put together this bullet point guide. A full briefing has been sent to you via e-mail so make sure you read that before you head to the runway on Saturday! • Please ‘check in’ at…

A planned road resurfacing programme of Alderney’s roads and will affect access to Alderney Airport from today.   The work is being carried out on the car park outside the Alderney Airport terminal building in two phases in which a side of the car park will be closed today and on Monday 24th September whilst the work is being carried out for the States of Alderney. The roads nearby the…

Aurigny has taken delivery of its second New Generation Dornier 228 aircraft, marking an important investment in its Alderney, Southampton, and Dinard services. The aircraft is due to operate its maiden commercial flight later this week. It arrives with the registration, G-ETAC, in homage to Les Etacs rocks in Alderney, an iconic islet and home toa large colony of gannets.   It joins…

Blue Islands has enjoyed a record breaking summer as it welcomed 37,788 passengers onboard in August, the most customers it has ever served in a single month and an increase of 8% from August 2017. This comes as the Channel Islands based airline flew 107,298 passengers in the summer months of June, July and August, another record amount, up 3% from the same period in 2017. Winter 2016/17 saw Blue…

Wednesday 12th September 2018 sees the return of the popular Meet the Pilots’ static event to be held on the Guernsey Airport west apron between 2 and 5 pm. “We are expecting most of the air display aircraft to attend”, said Event Organiser, Gary Elson. “Including the RV8s of Team Raven, a Jet Provost and the Beech 18. We plan to have a number of warbirds, including a P51 Mustang, a…