With BAC redundancies and possible Emerald ones, it must rub salt into the wounds if Channex and Zap are wet leasing russian a/c to do the post office work.
if I remember back to "cabotage" rules under international air law, for an internal route in the UK, would they not have to show that a UK carrier is unable to do the work (which RPX and JEM can) before being allowed to wet lease these in?