Scotland are Shortchanged
Hi,
Been discussing this rather emotive issue with a few aviation insiders who agree with the above statement.
Its seems now to be a fact of life that if you want to go anywhere in the world scheduled from Scotland then you must fly down south to either London or Manchester. If you look at the big low cost carriers for a start the only one taking the initiative are Ryanair with there new daily european destinations from Prestwick but Easyjet the only other big low cost carrier with a route from Scotland into Europe has reduced its Amsterdam service to once a day so that there aircraft can be used at one of there many new English bases.
Sure we now have Flyglobespan.com and Air Scotland.com but why did it have to take these airlines starting up??? the market was there already but was completely ignored by Easyjet and Go as it was then, Easyjet can come up with this nonsense all they want that its to expensive from BAA Scotland but heck the 2 aforementioned airlines can do it so why cant they.
And also lets look at Scheduled, shall we take Florida for an example, if l want to go scheduled to Florida then l need to either go to newark, toronto, chicago(note first 3 destinations served by foreign carriers not British), london or manchester to get a connecting flight which is inconvenient, you may say well fly charter..... yes ok but what if l dont want to go charter? what if l dont want to fly to Sanford Airport instead of Orlando International? what if l dont want to pay the ridiculously large supplements per person charged for departures from Scotland.
There are almost 10 flights per week from Scotland to Florida using 767 and A330's, now if each aircraft were to hold 250 pax then thats 2,250 pax per week during the summer surely to god a once a week scheduled summer service from GLA-MCO would work and would give the travelling scots public something we have never had "CHOICE".
My whole rant is that it must be so convenient to live down south and have so much choice and cheaper fares but l feel discriminated against for living in Scotland.
l can't speak for Wales or Northern lreland but l am certain they must have similar problems and l just wonder if any British Airline be it Scheduled or Low-Cost will come in and give the scottish people more of what they want.
Look forward to your replies.
Deeko.