Originally Posted by
rutankrd
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
I wouldn't agree entirely that it's complete fluff.
The article does say that BHX is in negotiation with a Chinese carrier - doesn't say which, and you wouldn't expect it to, and we don't know, not should we, whether those negotiations have gone beyond sharing a glass of bubbly on an exhibition stand!
I'm always slightly cautious when comments are made by this, that or the other academic. Not to say that we shouldn't listen to experts - which is fashionable these days, but there are so many academics who claim to be experts, you just don't know how expert or influential they really are.
Fingers crossed it's more than froth.