Originally Posted by
goldeneye
There is always the Do328 that sits in Dundee for most of the day between Stansted runs. No reason it couldn't position to Glasgow and operated GLA-IOM-GLA as a daily service, opposed to Citywings double daily.
Don't you think that Loganair would come up with another route from DND (e.g. AMS...) instead of doing positioning flights to GLA if they were willing to operate that aircaft on a commercial basis? Often, airlines are reluctant to dedicate PSO-aircraft to other routes as this can mess up the schedules (I suppose there are penalty clauses in contracts). Plus crewing gets more complicated etc. etc.
As for Dornier 228NG, DHC6-400 being produced again - where are these aircraft operated on a standalone commercial basis? They are niche applications, usually deployed to heavily subsidised routes or where nothing else can technically go (Twin Otter with floats). These aircraft no longer do traditional regional commuter flying like in the 1970s/1980s. If it was not for Barra, Loganair would have disposed of the Twin Otter ages ago.