Originally Posted by
mwm991
Emirates will be focusing east by the end of the decade like the TATLs did. GLA will be on a par with ABZ, just about surviving with service to LHR, DUB, AMS, some rUK and Med flights. That's it.
No need for a centralised airport anymore. Its EDI, just slightly further east than we ideally might have liked.
EDI has done to GLA what 1980s GLA did to PIK!
Having said that, there's a case that if EDI is now Scotland's gateway to the world, it probably needs rebuilding for the 2030s and the CAPEX needed might not be forthcoming? They're currently doing the old BAA thing of squeezing a pint into a 1/2 pint glass and as we bounce back, it's going to be shown up as exactly that in the years ahead. That's still a 1977 terminal and layout planned on a fraction of the throughput.