Hugo Z - all well and good apart from the fact that I know what FR are paying at PIK and I know what Go are paying at GLA.
Let me make it real easy - FR operate out of PIK, which costs them pennies per pax. They hammered Go's ass, as the Yanks would say.
Go operates out of GLA and pays a factor of 8 per passenger that FR pays at PIK. Other costs (aircraft, crews etc) would be broadly similar.
By using BAA's GLA, Go is operating at a clear financial disadvantage when compared to FR. This obviously is not the case with EDI, where both airlines are forced to endure the BAA's rip-off charges.
Kenny MacAskill, the SNP's new shadow Minister of Transport, has been actively engaged in trying to get the costs of operating through both HIA airports (now
there's a rip-off!
)and the BAA airports in Scotland (EDI, GLA and ABZ). Of course, a major part of the cost component is attributable to the high cost of handling as well.