£99... that's the end of those routes, then.
Eastern are a business passenger airline in the main for their scheduled services business. They will not be interested in £19.99 each way leisure passengers, and while Citywing may have had lead in fares at this level, the main stay of their pricing was in my experience a lot higher, as you'd expect it to be. Good to see continuity of service on the IOM BHD route but also for IOM to keep its much more marginal route to NCL.
Separately, Eastern are said to start flying these routes tomorrow, clearly they were busy over the weekend preparing these, but no content in GDS or on their website. I'd be surprised if these services actually commence tomorrow...