Sorry learjet50, whatever you may say it is completely unacceptable NOT to tell pax that their bags have been offloaded - with the bar code system names and bags are linked and so it would not have been very difficult at all to inform pax.
To add insult to injury it was up to the passengers to find out when their bags didn't come onto the reclaim at MAN. I do not wish to 'throw ****' at FlyBe; I am merely making a point about the airline's policy (if indeed it is).