not big enough for easyjet
Lets face facts. The Isle of Man is just not big enough for Easyjet, How, with a 737 could they compete on domestic routes with the likes of Flybe/Emerald/Euromanx or BA. The operating costs would make the fares that expensive, who would use them. Dont forget, we are talking a catchment area of only about 85000 people, typically, easyjet serve catchment areas of hundreds of thousands of people. If they managed load factors of 50% i would be amazed, which we all know is nowhere near enough pax to be profitable on that size of aircraft on short hops. If they are looking at routes into europe, again there is not enough people travelling to warrant a daily schedule. The bottom line is the economics and practicalities dont add up to a viable operation