Aviation News from the Channel Islands |
16th June 2010 - BMiBaby Jersey-Bournemouth
BMiBaby have announced that they are to axe their newly
introuduced service between Jersey and Bournemouth.
6th June 2010 - Beech E55 Baron N554RB crashes in Menorca
A British man and his adult son died on Saturday 29th May 2010
when their plane crashed during a practice flight just hours
ahead of an air race on Spain's Menorca island, organisers said.
The two men were the only passengers on the plane, one of about
20 taking part in Air Race Menorca 2010, a spokesman for the
Royal Mahon Flying Club which organised the event told AFP.
The aircraft crashed and burst into flames about 100 metres
from the end of the runway of the club's aerodrome shortly after
taking off to join other planes that were to form an octagonal
pattern in the sky. The air race was called off following the accident.
The victims of the accident have lived on the Mediterranean
island for years, according to Spanish media reports. The
aircraft had visited Jersey the day before the accident.
Credits:
Bob Sauvary & Aviation Safety Network - http://aviation-safety.net
3rd May 2010 - Capital Air Charter
Capital Air Charter has acquired Beech 200 Super King Air
G-ZVIP. The aircraft was formerly registered as G-SAXN.
21st April 2010 - Blue Islands
Blue Islands has commenced a new three times daily service
between Jersey and Southampton using BAe.Jetstream 32 aircraft.
At the same time Blue Islands ceased all Dornier 328 operations.
29th March 2010 - BMiBaby
BMiBaby has launched a new three times weekly service between
Jersey and Bournemouth. Flight will operate on Mon, Fri & Sat.
29th March 2010 - Blue Islands
Blue Islands took delivery of G-JIBO BAe.Jetstream 32 on the
25th March 2010. The aircraft arrived using callsign LNQ001.
29th March 2010 - Air Southwest & Flybe
Air Southwest and Flybe both introduced Alphanumeric callsigns
on their flights to/from Guernsey with effect from the 28th March 2010.
21st March 2010 - Flybe
Flybe are re-introducing a 6th flight between Guernsey and Gatwick.
The new flight (starting on the 28th March 2010) will operate daily
except Saturday and will route Gatwick-Jersey-Guernsey-Gatwick
arriving in Guernsey at 1955 as BE949 and departing back to
Gatwick at 2010 as BE952.
21st March 2010 - Palmair
Palmair will be operating summer charter flights again this summer.
There will be a flight from Jersey-Lake Garda on Wednesday 5th May 2010
and a flight from Jersey to Croatia on Monday 28th June 2010. Flights from
Jersey to Tunisa will operate on Sundays between the 5th September
2010 and the 26th September 2010. Flights from Jersey to Palma will be
on Saturdays between the 3rd April 2010 and the 23rd October 2010.
21st March 2010 - Flybe
Flybe will be operating flights to Spain this summer in conjunction with
FlyDirect. Flights will operate on Saturdays and will route Guernsey-Jersey
-Malaga-Jersey-Guernsey, Guernsey-Jersey-Palma-Jersey-Guernsey and
Guernsey-Jersey-Mahon-Jersey-Guernsey. The flights will be operated by
the Bombardier Q400 aircraft which is based in Guernsey to operate
Southampton flights. Saturday afternoon Southampton flights will be
operated by an aircraft routing Southampton-Guernsey-Southampton.
Malaga flights will operate between the 27th March 2010 and the 10th
April 2010 and again between the 9th October 2010 and the 30th October
2010. Flights to Palma will operate between the 22nd May 2010 and the
7th August 2010 while flights to Mahon will operate between the 7th
August 2010 and the 4th September 2010.
21st March 2010 - Blue Islands
BN-2A Trislanders G-BEDP and G-LCOC operated by Blue Islands are
currently for sale. It is believed that an additional BN-2A Islander will be
acquired to join G-XAXA.
20th March 2010 - Air Berlin
Air Berlin will be operating a Jersey-Dusseldorf service between 1st May 2010
and the 11th September 2010. Flights will be operated on Saturdays using
Airbus A319 aircraft which will arrive in Jersey at 1320 and depart from Jersey
at 1405. Flight numbers will be AB3144 and AB3145.
20th March 2010 - Lufthansa
Lufthansa will be operating a Jersey-Dusseldorf service between 5th June 2010
and the 11th September 2010. Flights will be operated on Saturdays using
Boeing 737-500 aircraft which will arrive in Jersey at 1125 and depart from
Jersey at 1255. Flight numbers will be LH4938 and LH4939.
9th March 2010 - Blue Islands
Blue Islands are going to lease BAe.Jetstream 32 G-JIBO for Summer 2010.
This aircraft was recently operated by Varisty Express.