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Aurigny has assured potential passengers that its winter schedules will be on sale by the end of June.
Currently, Aurigny has no flights scheduled to or from Guernsey after 26 October.
That is the day after island schools break up for the autumn half term week, meaning no flights can be booked after Saturday 26 October for any residents wanting to travel away for a holiday while children are off school.
Nor can any incoming leisure visitors or business travellers book inbound or outbound flights beyond 26 October.
A spokesperson for the airline has confirmed to Express that this situation will shortly be resolved.
“We are aware that islanders are looking to book their winter getaways and having five ATRs gives us an opportunity to review and adjust our flying program," the spokesperson said.
"The winter schedule will be on sale by month end.”
Pictured: Aurigny's website shows no flights available after 26 October.
Aurigny has struggled to run its scheduled services this year, which is believed to have impacted on its future planning.
The airline has issued public apologies - including a leaflet mail drop to every household - after numerous cancellations and delays.
It has spent £2million bringing in additional planes to cover a shortfall caused by extended periods of maintenance on its ATR and the permanent departure of its Embraer Jet.
In May, Aurigny's CEO announced that a number of scheduled services were being dropped - with passengers moved on to other flights - in a bid to improve resilience on key routes.
In a statement the airline said: “New wet-lease capacity (an arrangement covering the hire of an aircraft including the provision of a flight crew) operating a SAAB 340 Turboprop will be introduced in June to ensure that the interim, limited schedule can be delivered.
“By early July, the first of two new ATR72 aircraft is expected to be added to the fleet, with the other arriving in September.”
You can watch the Aurigny update, from May, in full below:
“We unreservedly apologise to our customers for the disruption they have faced over the past few months and appreciate their patience while we navigate this challenging period,” said the CEO of Aurigny, Nico Bezuidenhout, in that May update.
“Our priority is to provide our customers with safe air connectivity to and from Guernsey on lifeline routes, and we assure you we are doing all we can to return to the service reliability our customers expect.
“The challenges we face are not due to the launch of new routes or any conflict between profitability and reliability, but stem from unforeseeable events that have unexpectedly reduced our capacity.
“By consolidating some of our routes, we can provide a more reliable service for passengers travelling on our busiest routes. We appreciate our customers’ patience between now and 4 July and look forward to running a fully serviceable fleet that will provide the standard of service that we strive for.”
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