A spokesman for the Flight Support Group of the Manx Business Connection says they've had only very limited success in drumming up more backing for flights to London City.
The group helped underwrite the route earlier this year by coordinating commercial backing, so the three-flight daily schedule could return.
John Webster says there was "a small amount of interest", but much less than they'd hoped for or anticipated, given what he calls the enormity of the issue:
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