Airline Blue Islands has suspended buying and selling, cancelling all flights.
Only a day forward of Friday’s announcement, the corporate had shared an advert, recruiting for roles together with pilots, engineers and head of cabin crew.
Confirming the closure on its web site, it wrote: ” We regret to inform you that Blue Islands has suspended trading effective on 14 November 2025. All future flights operated by Blue Islands have been cancelled.”
The corporate warned these with tickets to fly to not journey to the airport until that they had made various journey preparations.
It instructed clients: “We deeply regret the inconvenience that this will bring to your travel plans”.
The Channel Islands-based regional airline had bases in Jersey and Guernsey, and flew to Southampton, Bristol, East Midlands, Exeter, Dublin, Newcastle and Norwich, and likewise to Paris and Bruges.
It had employed about 100 folks.
Blue Islands suggested disillusioned travellers who had booked immediately with the airline to contact their financial institution or bank card supplier, or their journey agent or vacation firm if booked by way of a 3rd get together.
Rescue fares and medical assist
A number of airways stepped in to assist stranded clients.
Blue Islands’ codeshare companion Aurigny scheduled 10 further providers between Guernsey and Southampton and eight further providers between Guernsey and Jersey between Saturday and Wednesday.
Whereas Glasgow-based regional airline Loganair launched particular rescue fares for affected passengers on chosen routes from Sunday.
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With the airline providing a significant service for sufferers needing hospital remedy within the UK, Well being and Care Jersey (HCJ) mentioned it could be contacting sufferers with upcoming UK scientific appointments, or those that had already travelled to the UK for remedy.
Airline closure ought to be a ‘wake-up name’
Throughout the Covid pandemic, Blue Islands borrowed £8.5m from the federal government of Jersey to assist safe and preserve important lifeline providers.
A Jersey audit workplace report confirmed £7m was nonetheless owed final summer season.
Fashioned initially in 1999 as Le Cocq’s Air Hyperlink to provide perishable items to the Channel Island of Alderney from Bournemouth utilizing Britten Norman Islanders, the corporate took its first passengers in 2002.
Buying and selling beneath the identify Rockhopper from 2003, it rebranded in 2006 as Blue Islands. Ten years later the corporate turned a Flybe franchise companion, restoring its identify once more in 2020 when Flybe closed.
“This shows our lack of resilience. We need major airlines to enter the market. Regional airlines are very fragile unless they have a bailout option.”
A spokesperson for Blue Islands mentioned: “After 26 years of serving the Channel Islands, we deeply regret that Blue Islands has this evening suspended its operations.
“After very constructive dialogue with the federal government of Jersey in latest months, together with what we understood to have been ongoing assessments of the long run choices, we have been knowledgeable this afternoon that they’re unable to offer additional help.
“This has meant that we now need to suspend flying immediately whilst we consider the options available and how we can help our customers, staff and stakeholders.”
