Well as an ex Operations Controller, Crew Scheduling Manager etc. I have some recognition of the incompetence:
Manx2 wouldn't have been aware that the F/O wasn't even trained, wasn't legal, whilst the Captain's command upgrade probably took place back in Spain, I mean all Manx2 would have seen was a bloke with 4 stripes on his arm ... "Ahh, you'll do"!
I can recall back to my first airline employer back in the 70's, low houred and/or pilots inexperienced in their position got an asterix against their name to ensure that two asterix's weren't scheduled to fly together whilst I've recently had a PDQ scam of the Wiki report of flight 7100 and what a total pig's ear the whole set-up appears to have been.
Whilst it is the operator that carries the can, and with prior knowledge that another F/O had been released from duties to return to Spain thus one F/O was working both day and night duties, probably without days off, from what I am reading above it would appear that these ticket selling muppets in IOM have blood on their hands.
One operator I worked for, I can't possibly mention their name but they operated HS748's from a LPL base and the CAA ultimately pulled their ticket. I had worked for them during the 90's, i returned to them during the 00's but, by then, I didn't need the money, I was just there for the crack, I was doing the day to day crew scheduling and often the commercial manager would walk in to enquire if we had a crew available for an adhoc charter.
Not to say that they were tighter than duck's backsides but crews lying around would have been considered a luxury, invariably the answer was a very firm "NO" but, as I recall, every time he would go and sell the charter and put the onus on to us that it was our problem to crew it ... and he would announce it with a smirky grin ... As I say the CAA ultimately pulled their ticket.
So ... Been there, Done that
