Originally Posted by
inOban
In the Scotsman article referred to in an earlier post they argued that, as a major feeder of pax into onward flights, they deserved better than to be regularly made to park in distant stands and their passengers bussed. They didn't feel valued.
The Scotsman regularly has anti-EDI articles anyway, but that aside, FlyBE are not really boosting EDI's long haul routes as for every plane load that brings connecting passengers in, they are also taking passengers away to LHR, BHX or MAN to connect onwards too, so in reality they almost cancel themselves out.
It is far more logical, surely for BE to park remotely and have 1 bus come to collect their whole aircraft and deposit another full aircraft back rather than another bigger aircraft park remotely and require 2,3 or even 4 bus trips?