Which means those 30/40 tonnes from the ME(B3) might well be spread more evenly?
"Spread more evenly"? So Joe, same cake, but a different way of cutting it?
Believe me, pwalhx knows exactly what he's talking about! However, with an increase of capacity
and competition, the laws of supply & demand will apply, leading to a general rate p/kg cut, i.e. revenue dilution.
For Scottish airports, the upside could then be a lesser flow of trucked cargo for flights ex MAN & LON, but that would be finite and generally only be applicable for cargo destined east and/or south of the ME hubs. Again, the p/kg yield will have a bearing
from those hubs to the destination, perhaps then competing with higher-yielding loads (on the same airline) for cargo ex AMS, CDG & FRA etc. It's all a question of rate/route analysis. Overall though, for the airlines generally, it just means less cake!