Certainly. There is a certain amount of "rose tinted glasses" here on the Island where Manx Airlines are concerned. What people forget is that they were expensive, unreliable, and ultimately sold out to BA, resulting in the loss of the Heathrow route, and prompting the start of the fiasco in air services that we have today. They were never "great" they took advantage of their position, built a valuable product and sold out to the highest bidder. So lets not romantisize them, or turn them into something that they never were i.e a "Manx national airline". They employed a lot of Manx boys and girls, and ultimately most of them now find themselves working somewhere else. We can comfort ourselves by thinking that things would be different if Manx were still here today, but the truth is they would be just the same.