Aurigny Air Services facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Aurigny Air Services

Founded	1968
Hubs	Alderney Airport Guernsey Airport
Focus cities	Jersey Airport Southampton Airport
Fleet size	10
Destinations	10
Company slogan	The Islands' Preferred Airline
Headquarters	Guernsey Airport Forest, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Key people	Derrick Bailey (Founder)

Aurigny Air Services Limited, known as aurigny.com is an airline with its head office at Guernsey Airport in the Channel Islands, and is owned by the States of Guernsey. It operates passenger and freight services between the Channel Islands, northern France and the United Kingdom. Its main base is Guernsey Airport, with other aircraft and crew based at Jersey Airport and Alderney Airport. Aurigny is one of the longest operating regional airlines in the world, and is one of the oldest airlines in Britain except for Loganair and Monarch Airlines. The name means Alderney.

Destinations

Current destinations

Aurigny Air Services runs to the following destinations (at February 2010):

• British Crown Dependencies
  • Alderney (Alderney Airport) Base
  • Guernsey (Guernsey Airport) Hub
  • Jersey (Jersey Airport) Base
• France
  • Dinard/Saint-Malo (Pleurtuit Airport)
  • Grenoble Airport (seasonal)
• United Kingdom
  • Bristol (Bristol International Airport)
  • London
    • (Gatwick Airport)
    • (London Stansted Airport)
  • Manchester (Manchester Airport)
  • Nottingham (East Midlands Airport)
  • Southampton (Southampton Airport)

Former destinations

The airline used to run to the following destinations:

• France
  • Cherbourg (Cherbourg - Maupertus Airport)
  • Caen (Caen - Carpiquet Airport)
  • Granville, Manche (Granville - Mont Saint Michel Aerodrome)
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport)
• United Kingdom
  • Brighton (Shoreham Airport)
  • Bournemouth (Bournemouth Airport)
• Charter:
  • Cambridge (Cambridge Airport)
  • Gloucester (Gloucestershire Airport)
  • Ramsgate (Manston Airport)

Images for kids

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  An Aurigny Trislander at Jersey in August 1989

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  A Short 360 at Guernsey Airport in July 1995. The airline no longer operates the type

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  An Aurigny ATR 72 taxiing at Guernsey Airport in May 2009

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  ATR 42-500 of Aurigny Air Services takes off from Bristol Airport, England (2016).

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  In April 2014 Aurigny announced that it would retire its fleet of Trislanders.

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  Aurigny's Embraer 195 on final approach to Gatwick in May 2015

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  A Saab 340 taking off from Bristol Airport in 2003. The type has now been retired

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  Britten-Norman Trislander G-JOEY - made famous by the "Joey Club" (founded in 1986) and book series - landing at Guernsey Airport

See also

In Spanish: Aurigny Air Services para niños