Originally Posted by
Skipness One Echo
This was Gil Thompson's stated objective but be honest, that predated the fragmentation of airport policy and the rise of open skies in Scotland and Edinburgh taking off after years of being politically restrained. Given most of the main MAN long haul carriers have a presence at either GLA /EDI,your asking them to cannibalise their own traffic. Emirates doesn't want it's GLA traffic at MAN and Delta don't want EDI traffic using VS out of MAN. There will be feed of course but MAN is not going to be the long haul airport of choice for the Scottish market.
Your general point is fair enough Skip, and it's true that the US legacies and MEB3
also fly to Scotland. However, the presence of airlines such as CX, SQ, SV, WY and, until EDI get a Chinese service, HU do provide MAN with a certain attraction I would have thought, although without the frequencies available at LHR of course.
I would also suggest that VS and TCX flying direct from MAN to cities in the US not served direct from GLA or EDI is also a selling point. LAX, SFO, MIA and LAS come to mind.