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Condor Ferries says it has had to revise its St Malo schedules from Friday 9 February until Monday 12 February because of forecast bad weather, along with the delay in the return to service of the Condor Rapide.
The Rapide has been in dry dock having routine maintenance work which was delayed starting by three days due to stevedores strike action in the French port earlier this year.
The ferry firm says it "will utilise Condor Liberation to replace Rapide on her scheduled round trips between St Malo and Jersey/Guernsey" while the Commodore Clipper will "provide additional capacity to Portsmouth on Sunday 11 February and round trips to St Malo on both Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 February."
Paul Luxon, Condor’s CEO, said the combination of factors is providing a challenge in operating a normal service over the weekend but he emphasised that the company is proactively contacting passengers and re-accommodating them on other services.
Mr Luxon said: "It is unfortunately a perfect storm as the stevedores’ strikes in St Malo in early January prior to the start of dry dock delayed Rapide’s original departure to Falmouth by three days and last weekend the poor weather meant we were unable to re-float her for commissioning as planned.
"Conditions on Friday are also restrictive for services between Jersey and St Malo and this requires further amendments to our schedules."
Extra Customer Services’ staff will be working to help transfer passengers onto other sailings and Condor says it apologises for any inconvenience these changes to their travel plans may cause.
All passengers are being offered a transfer to the next available sailing or a full refund.
The revised operating schedule is below:
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