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Blue Islands Limited is an airline of the Channel Islands. Its head office is in Saint Peter Port, and its registered office is in Saint Anne, Alderney It operates scheduled services from and within the Channel Islands and the UK and the Isle of Man. Its main base of operations is Jersey Airport (JER). There is also a small hub and aircraft base at Alderney Airport (ACI).

The airline was formally established in [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] (but had been operating since 1999 in a small way) by Le Cocq's Stores in Alderney and was initially known as Le Cocq's Airlink. It started operations carrying perishable goods from [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. Scheduled services were added on the same route on 1 February 2002. The Rockhopper name was adopted on 29 August 2003^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}. The company moved its main operating base from Alderney to Jersey in January 2006. Its Headquarters is now at Healthspan House, The Grange, St. Peter Port, Guernsey. The airline is wholly owned by the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}.
The company changed the trading name from Rockhopper to Blue Islands on 14 February 2006. The move coincided with the delivery of the first of its new fleet of 19-seater BAe Jetstream aircraft and a new air link with the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
Since the launch of the BAe Jetstream aircraft on Inter-Island services Blue Islands has gained a majority share of the market from its competitor (according to [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] magazine), helped by the recent introduction of an hourly shuttle service between Guernsey and Jersey known as the "Blue Shuttle". At December 2007 Blue Islands estimated share of the Inter-Island market was reported to be over 50%^{[[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]]}. In December 2009 their market share had risen to 68%^{[[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]]}. Blue Islands have also gone on to launch new routes from the Channel Islands to Paris-Beauvais (ceased July 2008), Southampton, Geneva and Zurich.
Blue Islands have been offering cargo services on all their flights throughout their network for a number of years. They flew in unique Madagascan birds for Durrell Conservation Wildlife Trust from Zurich during June 2009.^{[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]}
It emerged in July 2010 that Blue Islands had launched a bid to buy its competitor, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. This caused much controversy in the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], and a [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] page in opposition of proposed buy-out gained 530 members. Those in favour of the deal claimed that it was nonsensical for Aurigny and Blue Islands to continue making such huge annual loses. The failure of the deal was announced on 14 September 2010, and some speculated that it could have been Blue Islands' 'last stand', whilst others claimed it was too soon to draw conclusions.