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
Vanilla production in French Polynesia influenced by several factors and has declined from a high of 200 tons to a 2013 yield of 60 tons. The largest concentration of the vanilla variety "Vanilla tahitensis" (Tahitian vanilla) is situated in the Society Islands. The island of Taha'a, known as the "Vanilla Island" because of its pervasive aroma of vanilla, produces about 80% of all French Polynesia's vanilla. "Vanilla tahitensis" (Tahitian vanilla), which is a cross-strain of "Vanilla planifola" (Mexican vanilla and Bourbon vanilla) and "Vanilla odorata" (Inflated Vanilla), is produced in French Polynesia, especially in Tahiti, and also Hawaii. Its pods have fewer seeds than "Vanilla