At Jersey, Aurigny Trislander and Shorts 360 aircraft park on stand 14. There is enough room for the Shorts 360 to park facing outwards on the left (west) side, and a Trislander can simultaneously use the east side. Both aircraft self-manoeuvre into position and do not need to push back.
At Guernsey, Trislanders park inside the 'box', which is situated between stands 10 and 11. This area is large enough to accommodate at least 4 Trislanders if necessary. Shorts 360 and ATR72 aircraft use stands as allocated by ATC.
At Alderney, Trislanders park on the concrete apron in front of the terminal.
With immediate effect, it is no longer required that pilots fly Aurigny Virtual flights within -15 to +30 of the scheduled time. Flights may now be flown at any time on the date booked. The time to be logged on flight reports is the real time that the flight took place, not the simulated time.
This notice supersedes any conflicting notice in the Operations Manual or Terms and Conditions.
At the beginning of the summer, Aurigny ended their usual system of having separate summer and winter timetables, instead issuing a timetable for the rest of 2005. I've now uploaded the flight numbers and flight times from this timetable; the new rule now means that all flights are shown on all days, regardless of whether the flight will actually take place on that day or not. When booking a flight you now simply need to choose one of the flights for that route - the scheduled departure time is irrelevant, but choosing a flight number is still important because it provides your callsign.
Please continue to book flights before flying, and take care not to book the same flight number as someone else, as that would lead to callsign conflicts.
It is also now possible to choose a different aircraft type to the one normally assigned to the flight. The flights are still nominally assigned to a particular type, as a suggestion, but the system will now allow you to choose a different aircraft if you so desire, where this is reasonable in real life. (You still can't fly an ATR72 into Alderney!)
I've also made a couple of user interface changes to speed up the flight booking process slightly. (These are all easy to notice when you use the booking system.)
With immediate effect, aircraft registration callsigns are no longer to be used on inter-island routes. These flights now operate with an AUR number and callsign the same way as for other routes.
This applies equally to all aircraft types; there are no longer any scheduled Aurigny flights using registrations (GXTOR, GJOEY, GBDTO, etc) as their callsign. Trislander flights still operate VFR/SVFR weather permitting (other aircraft types are always IFR).
This also affects two-segment routes such as Bristol-Jersey-Guernsey, which previously would have used the flight number for the main section and the registration for the inter-island part. These now fly with 'A' and 'B' callsigns, for example, for G-RUNG flying from Bristol:
GR641 (1) Bristol - Jersey Was AUR641, now AUR641A
GR641 (2) Jersey - Guernsey Was GRUNG, now AUR641B
The flight booking system has now been updated to provide the correct callsign immediately after booking your flight.