Blue Islands is making some temporary changes to its schedule in a bid to improve resilience following a recent spell of disruption.
The airline said those recent problems have been caused by “fleet challenges”.
The new schedule has started immediately and will operate through to mid-July, at least.
“Blue Islands has 214 weekly flights across its network planned in its summer schedule and 28 of those (13%) will be temporarily removed from its schedule,” said Rob Veron, CEO at Blue Islands.
“Changes will impact four of 18 routes in Blue Islands’ network to and from the Channel Islands. All other routes will be unaffected and steps have been taken to safeguard essential morning and evening connectivity for key island services including hospital patient transfer and freight.”
The only Guernsey route directly affected is the Southampton service, with any passengers flying via Jersey to Birmingham, Bristol, or Exeter also affected.
Mr Veron said that “a minimum of a daily service to Bristol, Exeter and multiple daily services on the Guernsey-Southampton route will be maintained.”
Customers booked on flights affected by the short-term changes planned until 21 July will be contacted directly to advise them of the change.
If a flight is no longer operating, Blue Islands will automatically rebook passengers to the best alternative.
Mr Veron said the recent challenges faced by Blue Islands are affecting other airlines too, so they’ve acted now to prevent further disruption.
“The situation is by no means unique to Blue Islands, airlines globally are facing unprecedented supply challenges,” he said.
“From raw materials to engines, major shortages in supply are impacting fleet serviceability and availability of lease engines and spare aircraft.”