Article about US tourism in Scotland that mentions the airport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...iness-65637377
Edinburgh Airport has begun new links this month with Atlanta, Georgia, and also with Calgary in Canada, while resuming links with Boston and Chicago.
Following Brexit, it has been successful in attracting a bigger share of transatlantic travel than Glasgow, which used to dominate.
And the capital's airport has a significantly higher share of inbound American travellers - as opposed to outbound travellers from the UK - than any other major airport in Britain.
Between March and October last year, more than half the passengers on US flights began their journey in the US, peaking at 76% in August last year.
In 2019, before the pandemic, 636,000 US citizens visited Scotland.
Americans accounted for 18% of international visitor numbers.
Their total spend for the year amounted to £717m.
US visitors each spent an average of £161 per day.
The average length of stay was 6.7 nights.
Source: VisitScotland
Edinburgh Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar says that a big change is in the spread beyond the summer months, with more airlines continuing to fly these routes into autumn.
"We were on a growth trajectory, and post-Covid, it really accelerated.
"The American market was fastest out the blocks. They stopped travel restrictions a year before Europe did, so they were ready to go."
Mr Dewar reports that transatlantic passenger numbers are 25% higher this year than they were before the pandemic.
"We've got more destinations, higher frequencies and a really interesting development is we've got longer seasons.
"One American airline said Edinburgh was the most profitable first year it ever had on a transatlantic route."