on departure from
Manchester Airport ]]
is an
Airline based at
Ballasalla ,
Isle Of Man . EuroManx operates scheduled domestic passenger services, as well as business charters. Its main base is
Isle Of Man Airport 1.
The airline was established on
7 August 2002 and started operations on
19 August 2002 . It is no relation to
Manx Airlines which operated for many years prior to purchase by
British Airways . It was established by
Allan Keen , managing director of Isle of Man based
Woodgate Aviation . Corporate Jet Services and UK investors acquired EuroManx fully in September
2004 .
EuroManx initially operated with leased equipment including
Beech 1900 and
ATR 42 aircraft from
Rossair and subsequently
Fokker F50 's from
Denim Air . EuroManx introduced their own aircraft during 2005 with two
Avro RJ70 (EI-CPJ and EI-CPK), two
Dornier 328 's (D-CMTM and D-CPRW),
Bombardier Dash 8 Q200 (OE-HBB) and
Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 (OE-HBC) aircraft.
In June
2005 , EuroManx successfully bought the passenger service of
Emerald Airways , another low cost carrier operating services from
Liverpool . These services are now operated using an ATR leased from
Aer Arann . Competition from
Manx2 on their Belfast route has increased with Manx2 launching a 10 daily service. In October 2005, prior to the arrival of Manx2, EuroManx restructured its operation, shutting down all its scheduled international services except
Dublin , and eliminating domestic services to
Bristol ,
Southampton ,
Glasgow and
London Stansted airports. Its RJ70 fleet was announced as retired, however both airframes continued flying until withdrawn in February
2006 . At that time, EuroManx restructured again and withdrew from the Dublin route. The Dornier 328 and RJ70 fleets were withdrawn and operations continued with the remaining two Dash 8 aircraft.
EuroManx serves the following destinations (March 2007) :
Euromanx now operates as sole operator into Liverpool from the Isle of Man, and competes into
London City Airport with
VLM Airlines , Manchester with
Flybe and Belfast City with
Manx2 .
As of March
2007 , the EuroManx fleet includes the following aircraft :
