Southampton Airport’s longest serving operator is celebrating 40 years of flights from the airport.

Aurigny Air Services began flights between Alderney and Southampton in 1970 and since then has flown 1.1 million passengers on more than 100,000 flights between Alderney and Southampton.

Malcolm Hart, Managing Director of Aurigny Air Services, commented: “For 40 years Southampton has played a vital part in connecting Channel Islanders with the mainland and we are extremely proud to be its longest serving airline. To date, Aurigny has made almost 106,000 trips between Southampton and Alderney, covering around 9.5 million miles, and has carried well over 1 million passengers. These figures alone illustrate the importance that islanders attach to this route.”

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