Just picking up on this thread & it would seem to me that there is considerable work to be done to reach agreement with other carriers if the GSM concept of 'mini hub', or connecting with other carriers flights at more 'remote' locations, ie the fundamental pax. benefit of through check of baggage is to be achieved.
Without this, particularly in the current security concious environment, the concept is simply not practical !... which tends to undermine some of Dalrymple's earlier rhetoric such as taken from the (Glasgow) Herald :-
'The deal even raises the prospects of Scotland turning into a mini-hub between America and Europe, with people getting off flyglobespan transatlantic flights in Glasgow or Edinburgh and switching to its short hops to the continent'.
What progress has been achieved so far ?
Hmmmmm
