Originally Posted by
A320.b744
The Boston/New York area has a very strong connection to Ireland, so it should hardly be surprising that yield on the Irish routes is higher than on the Scottish routes.
Norwegian's decision has nothing to do with APD; it's simply a case of demand.
Surely though if Norwegian were able to charge the same westbound prices from EDI as they can from DUB, SNN and ORK then they would be able to stimulate demand even more. As has been mentioned, their business model here is as a ULCC and for that they need to keep the prices low. EDI is really at a disadvantage here when competing with the likes of DUB.
That being said, I do agree with your assessment of the Irish connections between New York/ Boston and Ireland so the DUB routes were always going to do well, even with EI in the mix.