Airline Blue Islands is seeking responses – particularly from the business community – to shape the flight schedule on their inter-island routes, with all replies already received being considered during the next phase of the consultation.
Blue Islands chief executive Rob Veron said that the initial sample was not large enough to warrant altering the company’s timetable.
He said: ‘We really appreciate the time our customers took to complete the survey, however, the sample just wasn’t large enough to base a change of schedule on.
‘We can only make changes based on feedback representative of the inter-island business travel market, as such we are again seeking the business community’s views as to when it wants these services to depart.
‘Blue Islands is a market-led company, and we will respond to what our customers are telling us they want.
‘We want to underpin our other data with real customer input to ensure every possible option has been reviewed for our inter-island timings.’
Gillian Martindale-Parsons, chief executive of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce, said that inter-island travel connectivity was ‘vital’ for businesses which operate in both Jersey and Guernsey.
‘In order to ensure our providers are meeting the demands of commerce, it’s important commerce provide an insight into their travel requirements.
Surveys such as this will help provide that knowledge,’ she said.
