Originally Posted by CabinCrewe
Yes GIP have not done that well particularly with their long haul routes.How many is that they've lost. Wonder what incentives were given at LGW to get them, and then the operators discovered it wasn't as worth their while. I can't really see a rush of long haul operators trying EDI to be honest.
I'm not sure how comparing EDI with LGW is really relevant. Simply because they have the same owners? GIP doesn't run airports in the same control-freak manner as BAA, each individual airport is very much in control of its own team and its own priorities, and the EDI and LGW markets are entirely different. For one thing LGW is competing with LHR for business, and many of the airlines they attracted have made it clear they would rather be at LHR, and given the chance they have gone there, hence why LGW hasn't been as successful as it wished to be in terms of long haul.
Given that the new management team has been in place for barely 6 months at EDI, they haven't done half bad, securing Air Canada Rouge to YYZ, as well as daily service on Turkish, plus SN, VS, and a variety of new EZY and FR routes. And it looks like they don't intend to stop there.
Originally Posted by billyg
Despite the EDI hierarchy assuring us that losing the DUS service to GLA was a mere drop in the ocean , they seem to be getting themselves in a lather about both losing the route and the fact that Glasgow already has a form of RDF !
EDI is still very much LH's airport of choice in Scotland, with multiple daily flights to LH's main hub at FRA. This new fund [funded privately by EDI and not a drain on taxpayer cash, as the DUS 'move' was] is nowt to do with getting in a "lather" it's all about engaging in healthy competition, and by the way, EDI is competing with airports right across Europe for new business, so Glasgow's airport bosses probably shouldn't try and kid themselves on that it's all about them.
Bring on the competition!