The initial schedule offers two daily services between Guernsey and Jersey every day, except on Fridays and Sundays, when Aurigny is operating a single service.
New schedules are being released in instalments in order to provide a “robust and reliable” service, the airline said.
Mr Saunders said: “I think we understand how delicate air transport is between islands and that obviously people have got things to do and we know that there is no other airline that understands these communities as we do.”
Guernsey’s Committee for Economic Development introduced the idea of a licence in an effort to increase resilience on the route following the collapse of Blue Islands.
Licensing would allow for minimum service levels to be set and managed by the States’ Transport Licensing Authority.
