Residents respond over Heathrow flights

There's been an angry response online after Flybe revealed it wouldn't be running its Heathrow flights this winter.

The company unveiled plans to fly to the London airport from Ronaldsway a few weeks ago.

But its new winter timetable shows it won't be operating the route from late October.

A number of Manx residents have taken to Twitter to complain about the lack of flights to Europe's busiest airport.

@daffydowndilly can you please find out why the @flybe @HeathrowAirport route has been axed, its only been live for 5 mins.....this is a shambles! #isleofman ????

— PS (@LFC771) May 8, 2019

The joint FlyBE and Isle of Man Government announcement hid that the IOM-LHR route was only going to be temporary: https://t.co/x8VVfqwPTj

It is wrong for the IOM Government and FlyBE to have colluded to give the wrong impression to Manx investors, businesses and travellers.

— Michael Josem (@MichaelJosem) May 8, 2019