Utter fluff piece with absolutely no evidence of any near/pending new flights.
Its hardly new news of the desires of both BHX and EDI Airports on this matter is it ?
Its also rather demeaning when read in full as said journalist quoted
"Airports such as Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester are not hubs, so it's very difficult to convince airlines to fly direct into their region. They have to rely on local traffic rather than transfers and the local market may not be big enough."
They are plain wrong on this when looking at CAPA numbers !
And already misses to success of both Cathay and Hainan from Manchester in particular -AND the fact substantial traffic is FROM the Eastern end whilst the transfers new also largely of the Eastern end