Mr Shell
'Incidentally I would hope that Manx2 conducted vigourous audits on their ACMI providers aganist a clear set of standards and didn't just rely on 'they have an AOC'.
I don't think you appreciate quite what your're dealing with here. manx2 aren't an airline, they don't have a chief pilot, they don't have a quality manager, they don't have a safety manager - they're just a ticket selling operator. So just who do you think was going to carry out a 'vigorous audit' and set their 'clear set of standards'?
They were/ have been/are quite happy to go with any the cheapest options with an AOC - simple as that.
Should they have asked questions and dug deeper? Of course they should have and that's where they're going to be exposed in the courts - duty of care and all that, yessir.