LOW-cost airline Flybe will not be cutting its services or capacity on flights to and from Jersey.
Other airlines have struggled in the current economic climate and altered their Jersey routes. Bmi has scrapped its early morning flight to Heathrow, bmibaby is suspending its Birmingham service from next month and Thomsonfly has stopped flights to Doncaster and Luton.
But in the same week that the airline announced a record 14 per cent rise in first-quarter profits, its chief commercial officer, Mike Rutter, told the JEP that Jersey flights were safe. Although Flybe will be reducing the capacity on other destinations, Mr Rutter said that Jersey would not face changes.
He said: ‘In other parts of the network we are reducing not routes but some capacity to take into account the economic circumstances, but not in Jersey because of the strength of the growing market share.’ Mr Rutter said that Islanders should support Flybe and British Airways because they had maintained their Jersey links.
