Blackcap, I would have thought that if the handling agent on the IOM had passed on the message re the diversion you speak of as they should have then ops would have known.
Yeah, a lot of delays have been down to cock ups, but they've not been exclusively Flybe's. For example FS erroneously 'rescheduled' 49 E145 LGW bound pax putting them onto a later 146 service because they'd misread a telex from Flybe Ops. It would have taken too long for the pax to be re-listed, so the 145 went empty to LGW as a result.