Aurigny Treasury and Resources announced that the sale would not go ahead. Blue Islands' withdrawal from Alderney on 9 May 2011 left Aurigny with a monopoly on that island for the first time in over a decade. However, it was criticised later that year for cutting the number of flights to Southampton, not lowering prices and reducing services to twice daily over that winter; Malcolm Hart later reaffirmed its commitment to the route and admitted that encouraging passengers to fly via Guernsey had been 'the biggest mistake in Aurigny's recent history'. At the end of 2011, Aurigny rolled out the first
French Island (Victoria) collect shellfish and swan eggs. There are several registered sites on the island that consist of shell middens and stone scatters that they left behind. In April 1802, a French expedition ship "Naturaliste" under Jacques Hamelin explored the area, as part of the Baudin expedition to Australia. He named the island "Île de Françoise", since Anglicised as French Island. The first European settlers on the island were William and John Gardiner in 1847. They had the first pastoral lease and grazed 8,000 sheep. The first land subdivision was in 1867 when 4733 acres were divided into 14 allotments. The first