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I hear that there has recently been a Dutch registered ATR at Fraggle International.
Is this the precursor to an equipment change and, if so, when will this company start to operate with G registered aircraft like wot proper companies are obliged to do?
oscar

The ATR42-300 is set to be used on the EuroManx IOM to Liverpool and the IOM to Dublin routes.

Its arrival will allow a IOM to Glasgow route to be introduced 'in the spring'.

The exact dates have yet to be published.

This raises an interesting point. Are UK licence holders still expected to have G- registered aircraft, or will any European Community country's registration now do. There are so many other regulations where the requirement to have some form of certification in the UK has been replaced by the same from any European country.

If you do still need to have aircraft registered in your home country, how do Ryanair manage it with their Irish-registered Stansted/Prestwick fleet, along with their other bases in Europe. They must have aircraft which don't go near Ireland from one week to the next. Conversely the much-maligned EuroCeltic was Irish-owned and based their fleet in Ireland, but had G-registered aircraft only.

Euromanx has, from 11th April, started to use a 42 seater ATR42-320 (PH-RAQ in City Connect colours) on the IOM/LPL route.

Also, if you go to the Euromanx site they are offering seats at £39 return on the IOM/LPL route. Click this link for the details http://neon.upton.com/~euromanx/pratrlplauto.html

Given that the offer only runs till the 17th, is this possibly just a temporary replacement for a Beech undergoing maintenance?

Rossair Europe has leased out PH-RAK to Air Emilia and will operate PH-RAQ for City Connect from next (?) week so at least Rossair will be unable to provide an ATR42 for Euromanx. Any thoughts ?

>Its arrival will allow a IOM to Glasgow route to be introduced 'in the spring'.<

Which 'Glasgow'?

Aer Arann are to operate a IOM route from PIK.?