New air link with low-cost services

Wednesday 4th March 2009, 2:53PM GMT.

ISLANDERS will be able to take advantage of some of the UK’s biggest low-cost airlines thanks to a new direct route from Jersey to Stansted.

The daily service, which is run by Aurigny and starts on 1 May, will give Islanders access to cheap flights across Europe from one of the UK’s busiest low-cost airline hubs. Airlines operating out of Stansted include EasyJet and Ryanair, which offers budget flights to cities and resorts in countries including France, Spain, Poland and Italy.

As well as giving Islanders a gateway to cheap flights, it is hoped that the new route, which costs about £75 return, will bring hundreds of tourists to Jersey each week.

Pictured: Both EasyJet and Ryanair operate out of Stansted

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Fab

March 4, 2009 at 8:52 pm

Hundreds of tourists each week? We wish

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sean

March 4, 2009 at 9:32 pm

This is great news and about time as these cheap airlines won’t fly here anymore. Tragic when Thomson pulled out and Easyjet giving up Luton more or less as they started flying there, leaving us with just three really expensive airlines. Flybe! It still costs way over 100 pounds to fly of this rock when you can fly to Venice for a fiver.

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PJG

March 5, 2009 at 10:56 am

Welcome news for a change.
Aurigny is a well established and respected local carrier, not like the last so called airline to fly the route who left islanders with onward flights from Stanstead and no way to fly from Jersey.

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ann

March 5, 2009 at 11:58 am

Those of us who planned an Easter break off the island, now have to wait until May when Aurigny and Jet2 set up or resume their services.

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Adrian

March 6, 2009 at 5:00 pm

I could do with this to help me get to eastern Europe. However if it isn’t all year round it won’t be much use will it? Aurigny I hope will have cheap fares as some of their fares to certain UK airports have been exorbitant, I know I would have used them before but for this!

As regards tourists to Jersey not a chance until prices are brought down to a realistic level! Why come here for the same price as a holiday to the Seychelles for example? Where would you choose? Once the cost of getting things into Jersey is resolved and finance is downsized or leaves then things will become cheap again and we will get visitors again if we supply a good package of activities for these holiday makers to do.

Jersey is viewed as millionaires row by many now, so until this image is done away with then we aren’t going to get many tourists.

The States must also remember that holiday makers don’t want to go on holiday to little Hampshire, so they had better change their new build ideas. Jersey needs to get back to what it was, low level buildings in a quaint environment not monsterous office blocks and blocks of flats that block out the sunlight from street level because they are too tall. Carry on destroying St.Helier’s character with all this Englishness will do nothing to get our tourists back. They can stay at home for that.

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