Coach Company Deny Airport Poaching
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A N allegation that the Jersey Motor r-k Transport Co., Ltd., were poaching air passengers from the official coach service at Jersey Airport was heard last week by the Motor Traffic Sub-committee of the Jersey Defence Committee. The complaint was made by Blue Eagle Tours. who demanded that J.M.T. should be barred from using the airport as a terminal.
For Blue Eagle Tours it was stated that since January 1, last year, they had been co-operating with B.E.A. and Jersey Airlines as official coach operators. Even in winter, when operation was uneconomic, every plane had been met, and now the company were investing in a costly terminal for air passengers at St. Helier.
They did not mind J.M.T. running a service, but they objected to the fact that the J.M.T. timetable advertised reduced rates for air passengers, with luggage carried free.
For J.M.T. it was pointed out that they had been operating between St. Helier and the airport area since 1937, catering for airport workers and people visiting the terminal. The committee decided that it would not be in the public interest to bar MAN. from the airport, but they stated that it was unfair for J.M.T. to advertise in such a way that air passengers thought they were the official operators.
JERSEY OPERATORS WANT LONGER BUSES
rtA PLEA for longer buses to be permined in Jersey was made „last week by the Jersey Motor Transport Co., Ltd. Maj. F. H. Blakeway, general manager, asked the Motor Traffic Sub-committee of the Jersey Defence Committee to allow the company to operate 10 new vehicles which were 23 ft. 6 in. long 1 ft. 6 in. above the maximum permitted at present.
The sub-committee decided to seek the views of the St. Helier Traffic Advisory Committee before reaching a decision. They had been told that if the longer buses were allowed it might mean that the operation of duplicates would sometimes be unnecessary.