Definitely one cheer for getting a temporary fix, though the timings are confusing: the whole point of the PSO was 2x daily (morning and evening) so that you can do a day in London for meetings and instead from Feb there's a mixture of timing pairs. Hopefully that gets resolved in S26.

Monetising/subsidising with the IoS connection is also neat (shame they couldn't do it via my local airport at Land's End, but can't have everything....) but it looks like that is locking in the idea of using LGW long term and treating it as even more of a leisure route outbound from London rather than focusing on what Cornwall residents need for onward connectivity. I hope I'm wrong, but if Skybus have the contract longterm, it's not exactly easy to imagine a BA codeshare or an LHR/LCY route being part of the picture.

Edit to add: the press release from Skybus makes it look like they will run their own (well, Aurigny's) ATR72 from S26 to create a Scilly connecting service despite the full 4y PSO not having been awarded - though I guess that they wouldn't have taken that step without a pretty good steer on what the level of competition for the contract will be.