For the last 5 weeks, I've flown on the Cork-Edinburgh route with Aer Arann and I have to compliment them for the excellent service they provided. The one unfortunate thing was that they stopped the evening flight from Aug 31. Please God they survive, but I would suggest that for next year they leave the evening Edinburgh flight in place for at least all of September. The yields for the two Fridays that I flew with them were 90%+, and talking to a number of people when flying up in the morning flight, they reckoned the same that they'd easily make money into september on the route.
I heard as well that the Prestwick-Dub route and the Glasgow-Dub routes are to be stopped, making it very difficult to get to Scotland.
My easiest way home for the last 2 weekends was Glasgow-Belfast City with Flybe and BC-Cork with Aer Arann.