Originally Posted by
Sk1schoolsam
Disappointing I thought the route was performing very strongly?
It's *ENORMOUSLY* seasonal, Scotland transatlantic always was, unlike Ireland which has managed to move to a much stronger year round inbound market with good demand up front. Perhaps Nicola needs to set up a Scottish flag carrier to do for Scotland what Aer Lingus has done for Ireland? Air Scotia, your time has come? Air Ecosse perhaps? Ah, got it, Highland Express! That'll learn British Airways.
I think Continental got it right when they had a year round B757 daily on GLA-EWR with DC10 / B764, or 2 x B757 in summer, there's probably enough for a single daily Scotland-US hub core route at the moment, different in summer when Delta vs. United can both do quite well, winter remains a challenge. Genuinely interested in people's thoughts on Ireland vs. Scotland here, the jump from Aer Lingus losing money with B747s to the long haul hub with multiple AA/DL/UA/AC inbounds and a based EI fleet is hugely impressive. All came from dropping the SNN stop-over in 2007, what would be an equivalent for Scotland? Even Independence wouldn't automatically fill the Aer Lingus sized hole? The Heathrow experience is on it's knees at the moment and BA etc are struggling.