08.03.2022 - 12:25 UTC
Air Alderney has announced its first Trislander from Britten-Norman is scheduled to enter service in the fourth quarter of 2022.
The family-run startup in a social media announcement said the aircraft would arrive fully refurbished and operate alongside its sole existing aircraft, a BN-2 Islander.
The carrier would also launch scheduled services before the end of 2022, it said.
Managing Director Danny Brem-Wilson was not immediately available for comment.
Air Alderney launched charter operations on February 7, 2022, using the 35-year-old Islander, G-BLNI (msn 2188). It has been conducting charter flights between Alderney, Shoreham by Sea, London Biggin Hill, Lydd, Guernsey, and Jersey, FlightRadar24 ADS-B data shows.
First launched in 2017, Air Alderney – legally registered as Wessex Aviation Limited – was re-issued with an Operating License and Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in late 2021. The company is based at the business travel airport of London Biggin Hill.
Guernsey's Aurigny Air Services...
18.02.2022 - 07:36 UTC
Air Alderney launched charter operations on February 7, 2022, using its only aircraft at present, a BN-2.
AirNav RadarBox ADS-B data shows G-BLNI (msn 2188) operated multiple flights between London Biggin Hill and Shoreham by Sea on February 7. Since then, it has also been deployed on charter services to Lydd and Alderney.
Air Alderney began its long process of launching in 2017 when it first took delivery of its first Islander. By 2020, it replaced that aircraft with another unit of the type, G-BLNI. In late 2021, hopeful of an end of the COVID-related lull in demand, the airline regained its Operating Licence and Air Operator's Certificate (AOC). However, it has yet to obtain the route licences needed to run planned scheduled services out of Alderney.
Even though the airline is headquartered at Biggin Hill, London's foremost business aviation gateway, it plans to operate scheduled flights connecting Alderney to Guernsey and Shoreham by Sea, possibly adding routes to Jersey in the future. Currently, Alderney...
26.11.2021 - 15:41 UTC
A new partnership between Scotland's Loganair, Guernsey's Aurigny Air Services, and Jersey's Blue Islands will boost UK regional connectivity in 2022, offering more travel connections across their networks, coordinated frequent flyer benefits, and stronger collective buying power.
Existing partnerships between Blue Islands and Aurigny, and Loganair and Blue Islands, will be strengthened, while a new partnership will be introduced that will see Loganair and Aurigny link their route networks, the airlines announced in a joint statement.
Guernsey, in particular, will benefit from a broader range of connections to the north of England, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, via Manchester Int'l, Bristol Int'l, and Birmingham Int'l, where the airlines’ networks meet.
Route links between Loganair and Blue Islands currently centred at Southampton and Manchester will be expanded. This will see new, one-stop, single-ticket connections, such as from Aberdeen Dyce to Jersey and Guernsey.
The airlines also plan to align their frequent flyer programmes enabling passengers to redeem benefits across all three carriers’ services.
Closer cooperation...
10.11.2021 - 15:12 UTC
Silver Airways (3M, Fort Lauderdale Int'l) took delivery of its first five dedicated freighters, all ATR72-500(F)s, and began operations on behalf of Amazon.com on November 9, 2021.
The Floridian carrier, which has thus far focussed on regional passenger services in the United States and to the Bahamas, has added the following Avions de Transport Régional converted freighters:
- N919AZ (msn 853), a 12.7-year-old ex-Aurigny Air Services aircraft registered in the United States on July 8, 2021, owned by Amazon.com (and already sporting the logistic firm's Prime Air livery),
- N929AZ (msn 727), a 15.6-year-old ex-Air Corsica aircraft registered in the US on July 30, 2021, owned by ACIA Aero,
- N937AZ (msn 736), a 14.9-year-old ex-Air Caraibes aircraft registered in the US on September 7, 2021, also owned by ACIA,
- N947AZ (msn 682), an 18.6-year-old ex-MAP Linhas Aéreas aircraft registered in the US on October 22, 2021, owned by ATR Leasing, and
- N967AZ (msn 714), a 17-year-old ex-Mount Cook Airline...
