Great news for EDI with QR adding flights to DOH, can we please now put that QR/BHX rumour to bed as it now seems even less likely to happen than ever. Talk about egg on face for BHX, it has been named as the next UK destination to be served and EDI goes and trumps them to it and to add insult to injury Air Blue call time on BHX too....
EDI is now virtually on a par with BHX for long haul ops and offers considerably better trans-Atlantic services. The problem for BHX in terms of long haul is that long haul demand is weakened by its proximity to LHR and MAN. Existing markets are therefore seemingly adequately served by a relatively small number of carriers and flights and there is no interest from airlines in launching into new ones, even with the runway extension. Has long haul expansion at BHX stalled? Embarrassed red faces all round I should imagine in the BHX boardrooms
