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Guernsey's airline to drop its European holiday routes

Aurigny will concentrate on its new lifeline routes, existing UK destinations and an extra Paris flight.

Late last year Aurigny was granted the licences to fly lifeline routes between Guernsey and Jersey and Guernsey and Southampton.

This came after the collapse of Blue Islands and Aurigny is leasing one of its planes to deal with the increased amount of flying.

Chief commercial officier Philip Saunders says it is dropping its weekly summer flights to places like Alicante, Bastia, Nice and Porto.

Instead, he says Aurigny will concentrate on its core UK routes and add an extra Wednesday flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle:

"It gives travellers more choice to visit Paris, the most popular tourist city in Europe, strengthens the island's global connectivity through one of Europe’s biggest hubs, and further supports our fantastic hospitality sector this summer.”

The move is welcomed by the deputy who leads on tourism at Economic Development, Lee Van Katwyk:

"This expansion marks an exciting step forward, supporting the additional marketing Visit Guernsey is doing to promote the Islands of Guernsey to our closest mainland neighbour."

Aurigny says it also gives Jersey customers the option to fly to Guernsey then on to Paris.

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