Aurigny Air Services

[Seasider]

My wife and I flew LBA - GCI on 30 Aug with 37 pax. Flew back on 6 Sep with 31 pax. Those loads do not encourage them to offer more.

 

[lbaspotter]

Aurigny will once again operate a 1x weekly Sunday lunchtime Leeds/Bradford to Guernsey service for a 3 week period over the Christmas & New Year's holidays as follows.

Sunday's, December 17th, 24th & 31st 2023
AUR664 = GCI 09:35 - LBA 11:10 / AUR665 = LBA 11:45 - GCI 13:25

Aurigny restarts it's Guernsey to Leeds/Bradford route this weekend with flights running for the next 3 Sundays over the festive period.

 

[lbaspotter]

Aurigny return on its 2x weekly Guernsey - Leeds route this Wednesday, May 22nd operating 2x weekly (Wed & Sat)

Could be interesting to watch what turns up, as the airline is really struggling with its own fleet due shortages and are leasing in aircraft eg Dash 8’s from other operators.

Wednesdays
AUR664 = GCI 13:00 - LBA 14:30 / AUR665 = LBA 15:00 - GCI 16:40
Saturdays
AUR664 = GCI 13:20 - LBA 14:50 / AUR665 = LBA 15:20 - GCI 16:50

 

[oldendays]

Aurigny used their Embraer on their Friday Manchester service. I didn't realise it was still in service.

 

[White Heather]

Aurigny return on its 2x weekly Guernsey - Leeds route this Wednesday, May 22nd operating 2x weekly (Wed & Sat)

Could be interesting to watch what turns up, as the airline is really struggling with its own fleet due shortages and are leasing in aircraft eg Dash 8’s from other operators.

Wednesdays
AUR664 = GCI 13:00 - LBA 14:30 / AUR665 = LBA 15:00 - GCI 16:40
Saturdays
AUR664 = GCI 13:20 - LBA 14:50 / AUR665 = LBA 15:20 - GCI 16:50

We will do very well if we get these flights as the Aurigny bosses are considering axing some routes completely and cutting frequency on others due to lack of aircraft . Apparently they only have five normally, one is grounded due to a heavy landing, another that they leased over ran the runway and is also grounded and a UK based airline that was supposed to lease them aircraft this summer has reneged on the contract. On top of that, their Embraer is limited use only for some technical reasons. In a nutshell, they don't have the aircraft to operate their published schedule and therefore the plan is to cancel routes and services until they do, which is likely to be August.

 

[White Heather]

We will do very well if we get these flights as the Aurigny bosses are considering axing some routes completely and cutting frequency on others due to lack of aircraft . Apparently they only have five normally, one is grounded due to a heavy landing, another that they leased over ran the runway and is also grounded and a UK based airline that was supposed to lease them aircraft this summer has reneged on the contract. On top of that, their Embraer is limited use only for some technical reasons. In a nutshell, they don't have the aircraft to operate their published schedule and therefore the plan is to cancel routes and services until they do, which is likely to be August.

Not sure but we may have got away with it. Liverpool and Exeter have both had their flights cancelled and East Midlands and Birmingham have had their frequency reduced. Basically, Aurigny have axed flights where there's a neighbouring airport. Liverpool pax and switched to MAN, Exeter to BRS.

 

[lbaspotter]

Not sure but we may have got away with it. Liverpool and Exeter have both had their flights cancelled and East Midlands and Birmingham have had their frequency reduced. Basically, Aurigny have axed flights where there's a neighbouring airport. Liverpool pax and switched to MAN, Exeter to BRS.

Looking at the schedule the 2x weekly (Wed & Sat) Guernsey - Leeds service remains totally in tact, like I said it’s possibly due to the strong forward bookings.

The new Liverpool route is averaging 23x pax. Not good and I suspect why it’s been cancelled for next 5 weeks.

Jump Air ATR72-500, LY-JUP is scheduled to operate tomorrow’s first of the summer 2024 seasons flights

 

[alpha.alpha]

Definitely a positive sign our service remains in tact. Hopefully Aurigny can scrape there reliability back.

 

[Finger66]

Wonder if EXT and LPL reacted by going GRrrrrrrrrrrr!

Seriously though this all seems a sensible move by GR, reducing flying where viable alternative destinations can be offered.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Good move by aurigny so they keep an east of the pennines presence, pointless operating both LPL and MAN esp if LPL loads are low. Could do with the orange crew doing the same!

 

[LBA4EVER]

Who happened to catch todays jump air ATR landing at LBA operating for aurigny, thought he was going to end up on scotland lane! in all my time watching planes I've never seen one land as late, floated and touched down just before delta taxiway landing runway 14! probably around 25% of runway left!
Could of been catastrophic!

 

[White Heather]

Who happened to catch todays jump air ATR landing at LBA operating for aurigny, thought he was going to end up on scotland lane! in all my time watching planes I've never seen one land as late, floated and touched down just before delta taxiway landing runway 14! probably around 25% of runway left!
Could of been catastrophic!

Pilot probably navy trained. The ATR can probably stop on an aircraft carrier....and maybe he wanted to just reduce taxiing distance . Land next to the taxiway , turn left. Sorted!

 

[LBA4EVER]

Pilot probably navy trained. The ATR can probably stop on an aircraft carrier....and maybe he wanted to just reduce taxiing distance . Land next to the taxiway , turn left. Sorted!

Video of it landing on bsl, only an armchair pilot here but dont care what people say that was a crazy landing, floated to the 32 TDZ landing 14 haha

 

[Silvercity]

Good move by aurigny so they keep an east of the pennines presence, pointless operating both LPL and MAN esp if LPL loads are low. Could do with the orange crew doing the same!

Who said they were ? They have only started a month ago. By looks of terminal this morning, and I'm sat on Jet2 to Faro now, Liverpool Airport is packed.

 

[Len Fish]

Video of it landing on bsl, only an armchair pilot here but dont care what people say that was a crazy landing, floated to the 32 TDZ landing 14 haha

The aircraft was nearly an hour late, maybe the pilots didn’t want any further delay due to a go around. Although thankfully there was no accident quite a few crashes have been caused by pilots making poor decisions due to being behind schedule. There’s little doubt this should have been a go around, I wonder how far from the end the aircraft managed to stop?

 

[LBA4EVER]

The aircraft was nearly an hour late, maybe the pilots didn’t want any further delay due to a go around. Although thankfully there was no accident quite a few crashes have been caused by pilots making poor decisions due to being behind schedule. There’s little doubt this should have been a go around, I wonder how far from the end the aircraft managed to stop?

Glad the runway was dry, the ATR must of been empty of pax and light, he definitely would of gone off the end had it been heavier!

 

[Seasider]

I only counted 23 on outbound flight, so maybe lightly loaded.

 

[Aviador]

Glad the runway was dry, the ATR must of been empty of pax and light, he definitely would of gone off the end had it been heavier!

The truth of the matter is you don't know, nobody does. The flight landed, and it landed safely. You have come out with some outrageous comments over this non event. It wouldn't be so bad had you just said "in my opinion... it looked dangerous", but comments like "it would *definitely* have gone off the end" are frankly ridiculous. You don't have the full facts or even basic flying skills to back your claims. Nobody expect you to, but you need to tone down your choice of words as they *could* be considered as slandeous. If not this quote, some of your others.

Watching the various live airfield broadcasting we have available to us from all the major airports, you will come across late landings fairly frequently. It happens at all airports, with all aircraft types more often than you imagine. Thankfully, aircraft require less distance for landing than for take off, so for the novices and armchair critics out there like most of us, they probably look far worse than they actually are.

 

[Sputnik1]

It's a non-event until it isn't. Get-there-itis has been the cause of many accidents. Late landings may happen, but not with <600m runway left, that was a bit ridiculous. Every CFI in the world would have mandated a go-around in this event. We don't need to dramatise, but we shouldn't really defend these practices.
I will say, just because there's enough runway left to bring the aircraft to a stop, doesn't mean it's OK to land there. There's a reason all aircraft types aim for the same touchdown zone

 

[Aviador]

It's a non-event until it isn't. Get-there-itis has been the cause of many accidents. Late landings may be common, but not with <600m runway left, that was a bit ridiculous. Every CFI in the world would have mandated a go-around in this event. We don't need to dramatise, but we shouldn't really defend these practices.

I don't disagree, but as I said, we are not in a position to criticise, and nor should we. If anyone feels strongly about this they should forward the footage to the CAA and let them review it but deciding one way or another here is inappropriate.

For all we know ATC may have had a polite conversation with the captain.