Flybe has announced it is ending flights to Heathrow after just one season - and closing its Isle of Man base which only reopened in April.

The airline, which was acquired by Connect Airways in the summer, said the changes follow a ’thorough review of its future fleet and network plans’.

And it said its Isle of Man base will be closed under a ’phased and managed programme’ to be completed by the start of summer 2020.

Its routes to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham will continue as will the patient transfer service operated under contract with the Department of Health and Social Care.

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