Originally Posted by
cuthere
Er.....as I said above. BA Regional operated the route. Mixture of Saabs and E145s. My last time using the route would have been circa 2002. An E145 “pencil jet” as the one member of cabin crew called it. Route was suspended very shortly after as BA Regional crashed.
LM were doing double daily to GLA, though all under the banner of BA, at the same time. I was a regular, and happy punter at the time.
BA Regional operated to MAN from the mid 90’s until 2003 using Jetstream 41’s and E145’s at the weekend. LM took over the route then using SF34’s and Short 360’s until about 2005. Aer Aran stepped in for a couple of years before pulling the route in about 2007/8. Flybe took it in 2012 with the Dash 8’s for 6 months, and now of course LM are back on it, sort of.
LM certainly were doing 2 x daily GLA, but not at the same time they were doing MAN. A night stopping SF34 would do LDY-DUB-LDY-MAN-LDY-GLA, with another Saab coming back later that evening from GLA to do the evening DUB as well.