Aurigny review to be published next month

The review of Aurigny's fleet and performance is costing taxpayers £65,000

A report looking at the resilience of Aurigny's fleet and management decisions during the last year of disruption will be released in October.

President of the States Trading Supervisory Board (STSB), Deputy Peter Roffey said "by the end of next month we will have released the report".

The review is being done by a former chief pilot for British Airways and an ex-finance director for one of the airline's subsidiaries, and is costing £65,000.

It was commissioned following a disruption to Aurigny's services this year, which Roffey has labelled as "unacceptable".

The review has looked at the make up of Aurigny's fleet after its embraer jet was removed from service earlier this year.

Aurigny's plan is to replace the jet with a fleet of five smaller ATR aircraft.

The last of these five planes is set to arrive in Guernsey in mid-October according to the airline's CEO Nico Bezuidenhout.

Roffey told an audience from the Institute of Directors the review had been done in two parts with the first being forward looking to help plan for the airline's upcoming schedules.

The second part would look at "what went wrong, why it went wrong and should it have been anticipated", Roffey said.

Aurigny's CEO said the recent disruption had been out of the airline's control

Aurigny CEO - 'We've let passengers down'

Mr Bezuidenhout blamed three technical issues throughout the year for the disruption the airline has faced.

"We've let our passengers down. But this is down to things we could not control.

"It has been a challenging year for passengers and our staff, but it is getting better."

To minimise disruption the airline has wet-leased a fifth ATR aircraft which is currently supporting the four currently operated by Aurigny.

"We now have five aircraft in the skies, our punctuality ratings are back higher than the UK average and our performance is back to normal."