Getting around GCI
Guernsey Airport sits in the parish of the Forest, about fifteen minutes by car from St Peter Port — and unlike most of what flies in and out of it, the island itself is not part of the United Kingdom or the European Union: Guernsey is a Crown Dependency with its own government, taking part in the Common Travel Area but treated as a “third country” outside the EU single market. The single terminal building opened in April 2004, on the same site where the original airfield was officially opened on 5 May 1939. Aurigny, the carrier behind most of the schedule, is not a private airline: the States of Guernsey bought it outright in 2003, the year British Airways pulled out of the London Gatwick route — and in April 2026, BA came back, launching its first-ever daily Heathrow service twenty-three years later. That return landed in the same stretch that saw Blue Islands cease operations in November 2025, with Aurigny absorbing the disruption on an interim schedule. The other local quirk is fog: Guernsey’s Category 1 instrument landing system needs 550 metres of visibility to start an approach, and the housing packed around the runway rules out installing anything more precise.
