Clear Harbour Airways’ main aim, it says, is to serve St Helier and St Peter Port, but it also intends to offer flights to Alderney.
Founder Benjamin Hill said he came up with the idea after moving to Jersey last year, having spent time in Canada where he worked as an investment manager and in that role came into contact with a seaplane service, which he said gave him a background understanding of the sector and who he needed to speak to.
He is working closely with Canadian company Harbour Air Seaplanes, which claims to be the largest such service in the world.
A passenger seaplane service operated in Guernsey in the 1930s, before the opening of the airport, but there has been no similar operation since the Second World War.
