Last week I was scheduled to fly on Flybe flight 601 to Liverpool from the IOM (departs 7:05am), but the flight was cancelled due to a 'technical problem' and I did not travel until the 10:45am flight 603.
Maybe I'me just being very cynical here, but there were only 20 people booked on flight 601, but add these passengers to the ones already booked on flight 603 and you conveniently get a nearly full plane, plus they did not seem to being doing anything to the Q400 that was supposed to opperate 601, which you would expect if they were trying to fix a tech problem.
Maybe I'm just being far too cycnical but sometimes you do have to wonder!!