Whilst I agree that new routes will be few and far between, the performance of EDI’s routes in July were on the whole pretty impressive, particularly long haul.
EK carried 20,248 passengers with a LF of 92%. Every single US route had a LF of 87% or above and there are six daily routes during peak summer (BOS, ORD, JFK, IAD, EWR and PHL) which is impressive.
Good growth from Finnair to HEL, and TK to IST as well.