Some people are talking as though there is an extensive non-Scottish network, as far as I can tell there isn’t. Just a few routes from Newcastle including a couple of very recent additions post-flybe and the PSO from Derry-London along with (for now) the hospital transfer from IOM to Liverpool and the BA service from IOM to London. Whether the jets are the optimal equipment is another matter but connecting Scotland with the English regions, Cardiff and Belfast is also surely a priority worthy of support (and politically important for both U.K. and Scottish government).