PAXboy
BRS-IOM was a strange one with Flybe.
The aircraft used was one of the BRS-BHD rotations that called at Ronaldsway en route.
The direct BRS-BHD flights were charging as low as £40 return to the Northern Ireland capital (presumably to try to compete with easy on BRS-BFS), but the one rotation of the day that went via IOM charged astronomical amounts, even if one was going through to BHD.
If they could charge as low as £40 for BRS-BHD why not similarly low fares on BRS-IOM, especially when the a/c was going to BHD anyway?
I believe that Eastern is not a cheap airline when it comes to fares. If so I suppose a half full J 41 might still make money.