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DOI certainly needs dismantling. It's not fit for purpose and in certain cases is a total train wreck (or should that be tram wreck?) Splitting it up has to happen. It's out of control. While many workers at the coalface are good at what they do, there are layers upon layers of middle and senior management that wouldn't be given a second look for employment in the private sector.

If the Nation's Station [sic] really must continue, they could learn a lot from Magic. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/04/magic-radio-indestructible-easy-listening-streaming

They have 19 or so based there so the idea doesn't seem impossible. They also fly to Jersey from both Liverpool and Manchester. Any Easy Jet flights would be nowhere near the five times a day pattern of FlyMayBe at the moment.

It'll come out in the wash eventually. It always does. Even if it's years later like the MEA loans debacle. As you say the contingency fund is apparently pretty much gone, the massive time overrun won't see workers working for free, so that's going to cost too. I noticed as well it looks like some of the cracks have progressed/joined up and it looks like the road is starting to break up?

I look forward to when the full extra cost of this scheme becomes public knowledge!

Yes, plenty. Holding clipboards, pointing fingers, generally looking officious, and taking great efforts not to get their boots or hi-viz dirty.

Support this also. You see the Stephen Christian lads out there in all weathers working. It's the DOI wallahs that seem to be the issue.

I fully expect Stobart Air to fill the gap. There is almost a precedent for this last February when BMI Regional collapsed. Loganair then cherry picked some of the assets and better performing routes - both BMI Regional and Loganair shared a common parent company (Airline Investments Limited). Loganair were then free to carry on operating without any of the debts or problems that had been saddled on BMI Regional. Is it morally right? Not sure. But it's happened before and it could easily happen again. I imagine Liverpool must be fairly appetizing for them - nice juicy Government contract for the hospital transfers. Possibly Manchester too for connections to the Virgin/Delta/Air France network, but that could change if Easy Jet decide to muscle in on the route.

You're quite right. Also today's newsletter claims the seaside opposite Summerhill is now 'complete'... they've even painted parking lines.... only problem is the road is about 2 inches lower than the drain covers (and becomes a lagoon whenever it rains now) and also about 2 inches lower than the rail fail corridor.

The writing is on the wall for FlyMayBe.

The Promenade appears to be massively behind the (already revised) work schedule. The December 2019 phasing plans show the so-called rail corridor as 'complete by January 2020' as far as Castle Mona Avenue. Well they're still working on it and it looks far from complete!

It's an ugly old building. Shame they didn't drop that instead of the Dogs

This thread brings back some memories (or lack of)! The Dogs Home, what a place!

Time to pull the plug once and for all on this sorry institution.

An email about what?

Perhaps Manx Radio could try something like this for next Christmas, and perhaps the TT? https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/radio-1-christmas-guest-presenters? Picking random people off the street would probably not be too much different from the current output.

Is it the same person?

He'd prefer the title Fat Controller. Maybe there will be an opening for him at the DOI once Longworth moves on?

You're spot on with this assessment!

And this is the crux of the issue with the latest changes! They're now receiving even more money for 'public sector broadcasting' whilst at the same time reducing down the current affairs coverage that was used to justify the incrased funding. The MD of Manx Radio is always keen to say they aren't a 'jukebox radio station' - they're a broken jukebox station run by incompetents.

DOI is very much a tail that wags the dog.

Isn't the over-engineering down to the DOI's wet dream to extend their electric tram toyset along the promenade?

Probably the difference between a modern form of transport run properly for people's convenience, and a rickety old nag cart that's trundling along empty as it shakes itself apart!

14 pubs a week are closing down in the UK. It's part of a shift in the wider economy. It's mental that people want to try and keep them all open. Let them flog them off rather than letting them sit derelict for another 10 years.