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Old 12th May 2012, 01:03
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EI-EIDW - BE started the EDI route while RE to GWY was still going strong, that route was sitting there for anyone to try and credit to BE for starting it when nobody else wanted to.

Similarly LBA is a marginal enough route that they are making an effort to try out on a W routing, hopefully it is a success for them. BHX is a much more obvious route, as was LGW. Anyone could come in and make those routes work so EI are coming in search of an easy win. But as a user of the airport you'd have to favour the airline that's more willing to experiment with new routes, once you leave nationalistic sentiments aside.

Hopefully some day EI/RE will show some genuine interest in NOC. If they were really interested when they created EIR they could have routes to EDI, BHX and MAN at least by now, but they don't seem overly keen on the place for whatever reason. Hopefully that will change in the future.
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