Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"BAA were never able to achieve at their airports in Scotland "
BAA only saw Scots airports as feeders for LHR I'm afraid
That's mis-remembering history, they saw one Scottish airport as having a long haul future and spent accordingly. Scottish Airports MD, Vernon Murphy had a vision to build out GLA and David Coltman at UA promised ORD and IAD daily if PIK's protected status was removed.
In the early 1990s, GLA had NW, AC, AA, BA and UA all flying long haul schedules to BOS, YHZ. YYZ, ORD and JFK, and that's why they got approval to built what is now the West Pier. Almost as soon as that was approved the bubble burst. NW left followed by UA, AC and AA went seasonal and both eventually left the GLA market, twice !
BTW the famous Air 2000 routing was usually GLA-PIK (fuel and crew change) -BGR-MCO !
Now with the passage of time I reckon Joe Curry was right about a lot if things, EDI WAS in my view held back and constrained as was PIK, BAA were right about one thing, there was only really room for one major Scottish gateway airport, 1990s thinking had that as GLA, it ended up being EDI.