The IOM base facility can process a fleet of 35 aircraft and it is these sort of numbers that would be required to make it pay.
The reason Manx Airlines set up the facility in the first place was beacuse the rates in the UK were too expensive and BM was getting ready for the shiny 737, Introduction of the ERJ 145 meant another bay.
The new FlyBe regional aircraft maintenance facility must be one of the biggest in Europe and can take on all the work that is being done in IOM as well as it's own and third party.
This is not good for the IOM or the airline industry as many of the skilled aircraft engineers will leave the industry.
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