Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
Part of me wants to dampen down excitable chatter BUT I always think of Dublin when I was growing up with two Aer Lingus B747s out to BOS and JFK via SNN where NWO also flew onto PIK. Same old slog year after year for ages. Over time, that long haul market changed massively for the better and the dead seasonality has been evened out. Perhaps something similar is finally happening to Scotland, long overdue and without a based flag carrier to help. Sometimes we don't believe change can happen even as we live through it. It would be interesting to see the pull factor EDI now exerts all the way from NCL and the borders to Ayrshire and beyond. United don't need to serve GLA/NCL anymore if they can pull traffic to EDI.
I grew up watching the NW/AC/AA/BA/UA bubble burst at GLA in the '90s, perhaps this is finally the real deal in growth?
Given the growth of transatlantic routes at Edinburgh one wonders whether British Airways and Virgin may be regretting not having a foothold there.
Of course Virgin is allied to Delta and BA with American so all is hardly lost, but it appears as though the year-round market is making EDI very attractive and the two 'London' carriers may have missed an opportunity.