"Maybe some of these routes could be a target for the likes of Loganair or Eastern albeit with slightly larger aircraft.
Can see Glasgow and Belfast being a good fit with Loganair on something like GLA-IOM-BHD-IOM-GLA routing."
Not sure about Blackpool and Gloucestershire as seemed a bit of a niche operation.
Not a bad idea , if we wind the clock back a few years Twin Otters plied the route between Blackpool and the Isle of Man daily - don't Loganair have a couple