Loganair reopen MME base

[Ekally1]

Not quite MME related but Loganair now announcing an expanded Isle of Man base which will eventually be 3x Atr 72 a/c.

Man up to 4x daily
Liv up to 3x daily
Heathrow up to 2x daily
Birmingham 1x daily
Belfast city 6x weekly
Edinburgh up to 4x weekly
Southampton up to 3x weekly
Jersey up to 1x weekly.

Courtesy of Seanm1997 on twitter.

Disapointed no GLA service ... 4 daily MAN , surely even a daily to gla could of been fitted in

[Ekally1]

LM just got in contact with me saying gla is not a sustainable destination from the IOM ...

[Clive]

LM just got in contact with me saying gla is not a sustainable destination from the IOM ...

Funny how everywhere else is.

[awwdabaaby]

Funny how they branded the routes yesterday as important, clearly your home base isn't then

[Ekally1]

You would think they would want glasgow surely .... my family are originally from the IOM and there is a large IOM- GLA connection between the 2 places ...

[Billyboeing]

Plenty of people on the Loganair Facebook page agreeing with above, myself included as I have family/friends on the IOM

[Ekally1]

Plenty of people on the Loganair Facebook page agreeing with above, myself included as I have family/friends on the IOM

I know at least 45-50 people who would use service , and thats just my family connections alone ... people i speak to always mention they need to get ferry from liverpool or heysham .. defo a market

[Ekally1]

Someone call EZY ...

[atuk]

Loganair didn't serve GLA-IOM before the pandemic and EDI is coming back but at slightly reduced frequency (I think 4 weekly instead of 5). I seem to recall that when Loganair last served both GLA and EDI to IOM, neither worked and both got chopped, with EDI only being reinstated after a gap of a few years. If you've already proven that doing both in tandem doesn't work, I'm not sure why you'd do it again just to prove once more what you already knew?

I see from Facebook that the reply on GLA-IOM wasn't a "no", but more of a "not at this time" response - unlike one or two other route suggestions which did get a firm but polite knock-back!!

When I worked in Investment Operations many companies based their offshore funds on Isle of Man. This generated the need for travel from EDI/GLA for operational and audit purposes.

Given the consolidation in the fund management business together with a reduction in holiday traffic it’s no surprise that routes were dropped. It may be EDI as the major remaining companies running offshore funds are EDI based rather than GLA.

[Ekally1]

I think EZY could do a x2 weekly service similar to our JER ... they do have a presence there anyway