Blue Islands, the Channel Islands airline, is joining forces with European regional airline, CityJet. This new partnership will provide passengers with access to major European cities on hundreds of connecting codeshare flights every week from London City airport through the CityJet network.
Currently, Blue Islands operates alternate-day direct flights from Jersey to Europe, which customers find inconvenient. The CityJet link provides the opportunity for daily services to Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin, Antwerp and Rotterdam, with many destinations now being served up to nine times per day.
This means that day returns to Amsterdam and Paris are now possible from Jersey. Passengers will also benefit from Air Passenger Duty savings when booking connecting flights through the codeshare.
The new daily connecting flights via London City will commence early next year, the exact date will be announced in the coming weeks as schedules are finalised. Blue Islands will cease to operate its own alternate-day flights to Amsterdam and Paris, and it's twice-weekly service to Zurich, from 5 January 2015.
The airline has also announced an additional lunchtime service to London City offering 25,000 more seats per year and a 45 per cent increase in capacity. The new flight will depart Jersey at 13.00, with the return flight departing London City at 14.40.
Rob Veron, Managing Director of Blue Islands comments: “Our codeshare with CityJet will transform travel to and from Jersey to Europe. Passengers will immediately have access to three new European cities on our network together with Amsterdam and Paris, significantly more frequency, and greater flexibility, and all bookable with Blue Islands.
“Just one booking takes care of everything, passengers can check in bags to their final destinations across Europe, improving the overall customer experience. Also, the extra flight to London City means there is more choice when visiting London for half day trips to the City when needed.”