{"id":539883,"date":"2026-04-19T19:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:35:14","slug":"guernsey-to-heathrow-route-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539883\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey to Heathrow route takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Chernoff, chief planning and strategy officer at British Airways, said the route was an &#8220;important addition to our network, strengthening connectivity between the Channel Islands and London, and opening access to further destinations across Europe, North America and beyond&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flights start from \u00a396 return, including taxes, and will operate daily from Heathrow Terminal 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2019, Guernsey&#8217;s States launched a daily direct service between Guernsey and Heathrow, marking the first such link in over 20 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The route was subsidised by the States of Guernsey with \u00a3825,000 in funding and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-guernsey-51228034\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ceased in March 2020<\/a>, coinciding with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64436500\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flybe&#8217;s collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Chernoff, chief planning and strategy officer at British Airways, said the route was an &#8220;important addition to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}