To be fair , would they not be the obvious choice ?
If not FlyBe then who ?
A few on here have an answer to everything but a solution to nothing. Some tangible evidence of who will undertake these flights would be good. Lots of fanciful suggestions that airlines would be queuing up to serve these domestic points not one airline is supporting this.
Ps I have no truck with HACAN they would be equally vociferous re expansion at MAN !