Isle of Man Airport

[Seasider]

I have just had a lovely holiday in the Isle of Man and managed a few photos although they were taken with a FUJI Finepix - I didn't have room for the DSLR and lenses.

British A/W Saab 2000 - LCY route
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Easyjet A320 - LGW/LPL/BRS
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Flybe ATR72 (Stobart Air) - MAN/LPL
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Citywing LET410 - BHD/BLK/GLA/GLO/NCL
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Aer Lingus ATR72 (Danish Air Transport) - DUBView attachment 3391

British A/W occasionally use Embraer 195 on LCY and Embrear 175 on MAH charter.

 

[Seasider]

Another couple of pics from last week.

West Air ATP in storage.
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Manx Bandeirante in the museum.
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[Silvercity]

I think easyjet do very well on their IOM/LPL route, it's amazing when in the days of Manx Airlines it was mainly a prop service with some BAe 146s

 

[Jerry]

Flybe will not renew the Stobart Air franchise for the Liverpool and Manchester routes. From 31st March 2019 Flybe will open their own base and operate their own Q400 aircraft on those routes.
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.c...onaldsway base&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2018

 

[David_itl]

One of the stoted ATPs in on the move. SE-MHH now re-registered as 5Y-GMG and took off around 13.05 and is over the Wirral peninsula,

 

[Silvercity]

Flybe will be reconnecting IOM with LHR, with a new 1per day service from 21 April.

 

[Silvercity]

Flybe will be reconnecting IOM with LHR, with a new 1per day service from 21 April.

Last time this route was available was Manx Airlines BAe 146 service. Fingers crossed Flybe give Liverpool and LHR link now

 

[Jerry]

Passenger watchdog calls for Isle of Man government-run airline

Government funding will be "inevitable" to secure air routes, a passenger watchdog says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[jfy1999]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1278288065342181378

 

[Silvercity]

i think these are new routes for Easyjet, both beginning Oct 2020 IOM - BFS and IOM - BRS

 

[TheLocalYokel]

i think these are new routes for Easyjet, both beginning Oct 2020 IOM - BFS and IOM - BRS

IOM-BRS is not a new route for easyJet. It's been operating year-round since 2015 apart from the virus hiatus. Due to retart for the winter season at the end of October.

 

[Silvercity]

IOM-BRS is not a new route for easyJet. It's been operating year-round since 2015 apart from the virus hiatus. Due to retart for the winter season at the end of October.

Ok, I wasnt sure. So maybe IOM-BFS is new.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Ok, I wasnt sure. So maybe IOM-BFS is new.

I don't know about BFS-IOM although a check with CAA stats shows the route was operating pre-COVID and last year. Unless another airline also serves or served the route (Flybe?), there is nothing shown on Wiki on its BFS page other than easyJet which is not shown as a new route there either, although of course Wiki is never 100% authoritative. My guess would be that, as with BRS-IOM, the BFS-IOM route had been operating with easyJet pre-COVID.

 

[Silvercity]

I don't know about BFS-IOM although a check with CAA stats shows the route was operating pre-COVID and last year. Unless another airline also serves or served the route (Flybe?), there is nothing shown on Wiki on its BFS page other than easyJet which is not shown as a new route there either, although of course Wiki is never 100% authoritative. My guess would be that, as with BRS-IOM, the BFS-IOM route had been operating with easyJet pre-COVID.

Do you know I really dont know...you maybe right Easy have been running pre Covid, . I would have expected Flybe to be doing that route but maybe it wasnt. We dont hear much about whats happening at BFS or IOM on forum4 to be fair.

 

[Severn]

BFS to IOM started June 2018 and has operated 2x weekly ever since. It stopped in March due to Covid and is due to start (along with BRS) at the beginning of the winter schedule - late October/early November.

 

[Silvercity]

IOM-LCY to start on 13 Sept. Loganair, one per day M-F and Sun.

As per Twitter

 

[Jerry]

Further Aurigny routes could be 'imminent'

Report due before Council of Ministers next month

www.manxradio.com

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Further Aurigny routes could be 'imminent'

Report due before Council of Ministers next month

www.manxradio.com

Does Aurigny currently operate any routes that don't involve Guernsey or the other Channel Islands? A quick glance at their website seems to indicate that they don't.

 

[Jerry]

Does Aurigny currently operate any routes that don't involve Guernsey or the other Channel Islands? A quick glance at their website seems to indicate that they don't.

Nope they're purely Channel Islands so it definitely would be them branching out to new territory.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Nope they're purely Channel Islands so it definitely would be them branching out to new territory.

So for more routes from the Isle of Man they would have to set up a base there, or institute some imaginative double-drops and/or W- diagrams.