Blue Islands cutting services with Guernsey

Friday 20 March 2020

As corona virus continues to take a hold on the Channel Islands, Blue Islands has made the decision to cut some of its Jersey services while grounding all of its Guernsey one.

The locally-based airline said this is a direct result of the evolving covid-19 situation which has seen strict measures brought in across the islands to try and contain the outbreak.

Both the Government of Jersey and the States of Guernsey have now said that all arriving travellers must self-isolate for 14 days, regardless of where they have come from. Flights between Guernsey and Jersey are included in that directive.

Blue Islands said the move to introduce self isolation for all other passengers entering the Channel Islands means there is "little or no demand for scheduled services," and as such it has revised its Jersey operations.

The airline assured that any affected passengers will be automatically moved to another flight and told of that change.

Pictured: Blue Islands has revised its scheduled flights from Jersey Airport.

The situation is more drastic in Guernsey, where Blue Islands has decided to stop all scheduled flights to and from the island with immediate effect.

The airline said they "will cease from today and resume at a future date to be confirmed.

"Blue Islands is standing by to resume services when deemed appropriate, continued updates on blueislands.com and via our social media channels."

Pictured: Blue Islands has stop all scheduled flights to and from Guernsey.

“We are a locally-owned and operated airline, with our heart in the Channel Islands, our Blue Islands team has worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks to manage the collapse of Flybe and to assist travellers in a time of great uncertainty and change. We would like to thank all of our customers for their continued support and understanding," Rob Veron, CEO Blue Islands, said.

“We stand by the States of Guernsey and Government of Jersey’s policies to control the spread of Covid-19, the health of our islands is the responsibility of the whole community.”

Pictured top: A Blue Islands plane before the corona virus crisis hit.