Originally Posted by
ATNotts
I am sorry, but for the majority of would be travellers in the next 12/24 month their wish list will be keeping themselves warm and with food on the table!!
All this complete nonsense that is being spouted on various threads (and I'm not fingering Edinburgh in particular) takes no account of the dire financial situation most people are going to find themselves in, let alone the country (The UK that is) which will likely be in a fairly deep recession, possibly a depression.
Apologies for the dose of realism!
Actually there are still a lot of people with a lot of money. I appreciate what you say that many of us will be in poverty, but just have a look at packages for the world cup in Qatar for November starting at £5K for group stage.
There were days when naysayers said Edinburgh couldn't sustain some of the routes they have for example IST,DOH,HEL,ORD,IAD,YYZ