Originally Posted by
edi_local
I wonder, with the rise of ME3, TK, Low cost Long haul like Norwegian and the expansion of US/Canada routes from Scotland since their departure, if BA now regret scaling back regional operations and losing customers to the aforementioned services? They could have directly competed with the direct services to the US/Canada for sure from Scotland.
Any BA flight from EDI would be point-to-point, whereas almost all of the long-haul flights from EDI are used to provide feed into the airlines hubs. BA could offer connections on to AA, but then why open a base in EDI, when they can just get AA to operate form their existing JFK base anyway? They have a joint venture on transatlantic flights, and can split the revenue from the route between them.