Deputies Neil Inder and Barry Paint are behind the move.
'The States of Guernsey has a lack of clarity on how Aurigny’s losses continue to grow, not least through the refusal of the business to publish its full management accounts,' an explanatory note to the amendment says.
'However the limited information that is in the public domain indicates that Aurigny moving into the competitive operation of two routes already being operated (specifically Guernsey-Jersey and Guernsey-Southampton) earlier this year will only serve to increase those losses.
'Such a misuse and waste of taxpayers’ money is unacceptable, not least in the context of the business’ increasing losses.'
The airline is predicted to lose £7.6m this year and £9.6m. in 2020.
'The deregulation of the air route licensing framework (agreed by the States of Deliberation in July 2018, implemented in September 2018) was not intended to lead to a deliberate haemorrhage of tax payers’ money by a States-owned business competing with other operators on non-lifeline routes that are already being adequately serviced.
'The review of the air links framework proposed in the Budget Report will set out revised shareholder objectives for Aurigny, and which will need to address this.
'In the interim an additional shareholder objective to prevent Aurigny operating on routes that are already being serviced should be put in place with immediate effect, and to be reviewed only at the conclusion of the P&R Review. That is the only way to prevent a further misuse of tax payers’ money in this way and to begin to stem the losses the business is making at the public’s expense.
'It is essential that the States’ Trading Supervisory Board, whose role it is to protect the interests of the shareholder (in this case the States of Guernsey on behalf of the community), acts decisively and immediately in this way.'
Deputies Mark Dorey and Emily McSwiggan want to put the brakes on subsidies for air routes until a review of States-funded air route operation and support is completed.
P&R intends that to report in April 2020.
'Connections to Heathrow and Cardiff are currently subsidised via the Future Guernsey Economic Fund. This practice of subsidising air links has been held responsible, in part, for Aurigny's growing losses – this will be verified (or disproved) as part of the coordinated approach to air links proposed in Proposition 38. Until that work is done, it would be wasteful to invest further money into an approach that appears to have a double cost to the States,' their amendment says.
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