Manches Iles reveals 2025 sailings schedule

Thursday, 12 December 2024 07:00

Ferry service Manche Iles Express has put its 2025 sailings on sale, including services between Jersey and Guernsey.

It will operate the same number of inter-islands crossings between May and September as it did last summer.

Its 2024 timetable offered sailings on 26 dates, predominantly enabling day trips from Jersey to Guernsey

Inter-islands travel is currently the subject of concern for many Channel Islanders, particularly sports clubs, as only a single mid-week service is currently scheduled by Guernsey's chosen operator Brittany Ferries.

Jersey's government has selected Danish firm DFDS to take on its UK and France routes and has said talks are ongoing about the Jersey-Guernsey route.

Manche Iles Express says it will resume sailings on 10 April 2025 from Carteret to Jersey and on 18 April 2025 from Diélette to Guernsey.

Grainville to Jersey will start on 24 April and there will be Liberation weekend crossings from Jersey to Guernsey on Friday 9 May and Jersey to Sark on 10 May.

The company says it transported 56,000 in 2024, up 3,000 on the year earlier.

In October, we reported how Manche Iles Express had received £300,000 from the governments of Jersey, Guernsey and Sark to maintain sea links with Normandy.

A scheme to allow French daytrippers to come to Jersey and Guernsey with their ID card rather than a passport was extended to September 2025 to boost tourism after post-Brexit rules causes a slump in visitors from the islands' nearest neighbours.

The ID scheme is unlikely to carry on beyond next summer because the UK is bringing in a new Electronic Travel Authorisation which will demand all non-visa nationals travelling to the Common Travel Area - including the Channel Islands - provide passport details in advance of their journey.