Fellas this old chestnut of is it an airline or not was done to death when the first euromanx set itself up. Issued nothing but tickets and brought in the aircraft from all over europe.
Common factor - its the Isle of Man. Nothing wrong with that but the deadwood we have running the show here have continually refused to take any responsiblity about the air services here cos they have loved their 'open skies' policy.
They're too thick to recognise the shambles air services have been top and fro the rock for the past 10 years. Ive lost count of the airlines that have come, been beaten off by bigger fish on routes, bigger fish FO when they don't make money and so it goes on.
The manx register wont have commercial aircraft on it.
I knew a few pilots who lost their jobs with euromanx (second version) and went to Manx2. One left after a week cos he was an ex BACon fella and couldn't stand what was going on there. Anothe rgot the boot after he raised questions about the tech state of the aircraft.
Like most things in life, you get what you pay for and Manx2 woulodn't have been paying much, yessir.