Yes,
BBC did say a £120 per seat subsidy but even a subsidy of circa £65 per seat, well the British/Welsh taxpayer is being scammed, a subsidy of circa £1,200 per flight, a Do228 burns in the region of, not too far off, a gallon of avtur per minute, somebody is making a killing out of this and it's not the taxpayer!
And these guys, in this thread, suggest 'we' have more routes from Manx2, yeah sure, how many such subsidised routes can the taxpayers of Britain/Wales afford for Manx2 to operate?