CUTTING financial support for airlines could be counter-productive at a time when Guernsey needs all the routes it can get, Flybe has said.

STATES support for airlines and routes could be cut by £500,000.

A ROW has broken out between the local airlines over card charges, with Blue Islands accusing its local rivals of fleecing passengers.

BLUE ISLANDS has fought off a claim for unfair dismissal from its former head of marketing.

BLUE Islands’ 25 ground staff in Guernsey will lose their jobs with the airline after it decided to outsource that part of its operation.

BLUE ISLANDS’ marketing department redundancy was not genuine, its process was not correct and the effort made to avoid it was not adequate, a former employee’s representative told an industrial tribunal yesterday.

THERE is much contradiction in the stance taken today by the boss of Blue Islands.

ALDERNEY has denied Derek Coates’s claim that Blue Islands offered to contribute £100,000 to its marketing budget.

BLUE ISLANDS chairman Derek Coates yesterday clarified the reasons behind its Alderney pull-out.

AURIGNY has promised to step into the breach left in Alderney by Blue Islands’ shock announcement that it will halt services to the island in May.