High-flying athletes grounded
Monday 14th April 2008, 2:30PM BST.
Young athletes wanting to compete in the UK but Flybe wont do a discount for athletics club.
GUERNSEY’S most promising junior athletes, including several who could make their bow at next year’s Island Games, have been stopped in their tracks by prohibitive air fares.
Young athletes wanting to compete in the UK but Flybe wont do a discount for athletics club.
Richard Cowling, the GIAAC’s head of junior track and field, is dismayed that Flybe, which flew the UK Young Athletes League squad to and from Southampton in 2007, has doubled its fares.
That, he said, has put the club’s participation in the national structure in jeopardy.
Flybe was approached for comment but did not respond.
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As Aurigny is the “Island’s Airline” I would hope that they would step in and transport them free of charge.
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Why not charter Aurigny?
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Yet again an example of how flybe have no interest beyond profit. If only Aurigny could get their act together and allow us not to have to use this airline!
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