Emirates at Glasgow
To deal with a couple of points raised by Joe Curry :
Source : CAA statistics for freight (Table 14) Oct-Dec 2012, in Tonnes :
Freight EU :
EDI 725 823 826 = 2374
GLA 55 65 70 = 190
Freight non-EU:
EDI 7 5 5 = 17
GLA 653 750 733 = 2136
Freight UK
EDI 727 909 919 = 2555
GLA 80 117 88 = 285
You can surmise the following :
1. Edinburgh has the UPS, TNT and Royal Mail hubs which obviously drive the parcels business from there.
2. Turkish are not doing much in terms of freight via IST
3. Glasgow and Edinburgh only have the US as a freight destination, and unless Glasgow outperforms EDI massively on the United flights its safe to say that the vast majority of the non-EU freight is on Emirates.
4. That splits down to an average of about 23.2 tonnes per day from Glasgow to non-EU destinations.
...and lastly, ergo, Joe, your passenger load factors are only part of the story. Its why GLA is a big success for UAE, and why Tim Clark sees it as "on their radar", despite the A380 having less freight capacity.