Originally Posted by
nivsy
I quite agree. Nice post. GLA used to be my home airport many years ago. Passing through GLA these days usually depresses me I am afraid. We have all witnessed efforts from some airlines to make GLA work for them. Often on a number of occasions and times. It seems to fail.
Hmm......
- GLA-MUC is only suspended for winter, it's still here for S20 at 5 weekly airbus. That's still a deal more MUC service than GLA has had anytime in recent history - and more MUC service than most other UK regionals. Moreover, much of this summer demand is stimulated by inbound visitors - the ones some posters seem to think are virtually non-existant at GLA.......
- The FRA route has not failed, it has reduced in frequency by ONE day from daily to 6 weekly. For a winter season where we may be in a no deal Brexit situation that may well be prudent. Jan and Feb were somewhat quiet (as is the case all over Europe), but loads the rest of the year appeared reasonable and not wildly different to EDI.
- Edinburgh's "multiple daily" flights are not that multiple -
AFAIK AF CDG is down to 2 daily and FRA was only 12 weekly in winter, hardly a stellar frequency.
- The last time LH flew their own metal to GLA was iirc over 20 years ago. I'm not sure how stuff that happened decades ago provides a predictor for now. If we take ZRH for instance, that's "failed" twice in the last 20 or so years from EDI on Crossair and bmi, so presumably the current Edelweiss service is destined to fail too? Of course not. What happened decades ago is little if any guide for now.
- Every time I see this kind of discussion come up I see the same lazy and incorrect stereotypes peddled here around tourism in Glasgow - "No inbound demand to Glasgow", "No tourists come to Glasgow", "All outbound/bucket and spade", blablabla. FACT: Glasgow is pretty consistently in the top 5 or 6 most visited destinations in the UK by foreign visitors. FACT: Glasgow is pretty consistently 3rd in the UK for foreign visitors with a "holiday" visit purpose. FACT: In 2017 (the most recent year with full stats) foreign visits to Glasgow were up 20% and N American visits up 40%, to make Glasgow the 3rd most visited UK city by Americans only behind London and Edinburgh.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-sc...-west-45018809, visit Britain
stats) All this is before we consider pax who might use the airport as an access point to other popular areas like the W Highlands etc. I'm not saying Glasgow has as many tourists as Edinburgh, it clearly doesn't, but it does have markedly more inbound demand than is regularly suggested on here. Imo if there are not enough inbound pax using the airport the blame lies as much, if not more, with the airport and airlines rather than with the underlying market.
Finally, S1E - the other posters comments were over the top and uneccssary - but, with all due respect, as a poster who has posted here, like yourself, for many years, I'm sorry to say that on more than one occasion over the years I've felt your posts to imply a dismissive and sometimes disparaging view of the city of Glasgow and the wider west of Scotland, all too often trading on stereotypes of the region - your #thatlldaeme hash tag being a case in point. Perhaps you don't intend this, but I'm afraid that's how you come across on occasion.
You can of course post whatever you wish.........