Port Soif car park will be used for any night time medical evacuations over the next couple of weeks while work is being carried out at Guernsey Airport.
The coastal car park will be used as a landing site for the helicopter used in medevacs under the contingency plans put in place while essential maintenance work is happening at the airport.
Hundreds of new lights are being fitted around the airfield, including along the runway centreline and edges, and taxiways, to give pilots a visual guide as they navigate moving and landings in low visibility.
That work is being carried out while the airport is closed overnight, meaning no planes will be able to land – even medevacs.
Instead, if anyone needs an urgent medical flight to the UK, the medevac helicopter will land at Port Soif instead.
The coastal car park will be closed to the public from 19:00 to 07:00 each night over the next couple of weeks so that medevacs can take priority if needed.
Everyone has been asked to respect the car park closure at Port Sofia, with the States warning that any vehicles left in the upper car park, nearest the headland, or on the approach road will be removed at the owner’s expense.
This is the second time that Port Soif has been used for overnight medevacs while the airport is unavailable. Similar conditions were arranged in 2023, while other essential maintenance works were being carried out at both Guernsey and Alderney airports.
The latest work at Guernsey Airport starts tonight, and continues until Thursday 19 June.
The airport said: “Work will start each evening after the airport closes, and the AGL will be restored and tested each morning before the engineers hand the airfield back for normal operations”.