There seems to be an undercurrent of criticism in the lack of an inbound flight which is totally unjustified
Does anybody know what the full rotations is? There seems to be an assumption that it is CDG-EDI-MME-CDG with a daystop on EDI - is that correct? Doubt whether EDI is looking forward to another daystopper over Summer. At NCL over the past two years inbound has been 75-80% of outbound.
in theory - providing FedEx don't launch the MAN-NCL-CGN ATR service they have slots for, which would defeat the object of them moving here in the first place
Suppose that depends on what the object is? Doubt whether anybody here knows what drives FedEx's operations - routings have chopped and changed, for example tonights NCL flight is going to CDG via EMA (!?)
It's also worth noting that the bulk of the cargo on the existing service into NCL found it's way into our Hangar 1 anyway.
In which case why did it take so long, or is timing everything?