The flights only went on sale for the Isle of Man at 10am Monday morning, so zero pax was to be expected. Very very early days for the routes. Prices have been lowered to £59 starting, which is good.
I commend Eastern for their haste in maintaining the routes, especially with no advertising. It happened very quickly over the weekend and kudos to the staff involved over the weekend at Humberside for getting it going.
In time, a rework of the schedule would be welcomed when crews allow. A double daily (M-F anyway) BHD, then potentially interchange NCL and maybe a GLA through the week, during the day.
The traveller maybe won't realise that prices are going to be naturally higher than Citywing, as APD will be included. Citywing managed to escape this being under 20 seats on their aircraft.