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I agree the east is growing faster than the west but greater Glasgow has a population of 1.2m whereas Edinburgh has a population of under 0.5m.
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Greater Glasgow has the much bigger population than Edinburgh, but it's the regional and secondary catchment that Edinburgh is well positioned for. It also benefits from ABZ being north of the city as well as GLA being to the west. After Edinburgh its immediate catchment is a decent size. Fife, Borders, Lothians, Tayside, Central Scotland and ideal also for sections of Lanarkshire and north of Dundee.
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I have a cousin who lives in Lenzie, which I would assume is part of the 1.2million. He uses Edinburgh because the road access, via M80/M876/M9 is a reasonably reliable journey at any time of day, while the M80/M8 over the Kingston Bridge is often a nightmare.
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I have family in Edinburgh, but i always compare prices, times etc between EDI & GLA as it takes only one hour to travel east, personally i dont buy into the east v west as i take full advantage of using both airports, which has the best price and timings as im sure the majority in the central belt and further would agree.
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I have family in Edinburgh, but i always compare prices, times etc between EDI & GLA as it takes only one hour to travel east, personally i dont buy into the east v west as i take full advantage of using both airports, which has the best price and timings as im sure the majority in the central belt and further would agree.
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Agreed. This is the sensible way of doing things to maximise options in terms of schedules and pricing. I have used both EDI and GLA in the past couple months. PIK is a bit more of a pain in the you know what though, so less likely to bother with that journey, although have used a few times in the past...
For holiday flying, the three airports might offer three different choices to the one destination. Looking at all the flight times, there will be one that might work in better for you. All the airports are within a reasonable distance so must be considered.
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We are very lucky in central Scotland to have the choice. EDi is a bit of a pain for me ( but not that bad at 1 hour 20) but flying from there next week to CWL. Usual departure point is GLA for business trips to LHR etc but flew from PIK this year to FAO due price of flights and parking etc.
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I agree with ScotsSLF that we have a good choice with two fine airports in central Scotland. Although Glasgow, for me, is a few miles shorter in distance Edinburgh is easier to get to and takes less time so generally Edinburgh is first choice however prices and timing play a big part in the final decision. We have friends who recently turned up at Edinburgh only to find that they had actually booked flights from Glasgow! A mad dash to Glasgow however did not save the day and they missed their flight.o
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I wouldn't really say we are lucky, personally I think it dilutes and splits the market. We would be in a far better place if we had a single, central belt airport. You would probably be looking at an airport the size of Manchester, with a similar route network, if we did.
Agreed, GLA and EDI are both local airports that are now knocking lumps out of each other with EDI doing to GLA what GLA did to PIK. Left to the unregulated free market, EDI triumphs but won’t spend the money to rebuild whereas GLA stands empty for much of the day.
A proper central belt airport would require both EDI and GLA to close and we as the public, no longer own either of ‘em.
A proper central belt airport would require both EDI and GLA to close and we as the public, no longer own either of ‘em.
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Going, Going, Gone oh maybe not. What’s going on!!
Going, Going, Gone oh maybe not. What’s going on!!
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Ok maybe not gone but the reduction was just three routes 2xPOL and one to DUB. The press release was that they felt that Glasgow didn’t work and that the routes would move to PIK & EDI. Now it seems that the majority will return S19. Why take the flak for the bad PR and actually bring the flights back.
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Ok maybe not gone but the reduction was just three routes 2xPOL and one to DUB. The press release was that they felt that Glasgow didn’t work and that the routes would move to PIK & EDI. Now it seems that the majority will return S19. Why take the flak for the bad PR and actually bring the flights back.
They know they can get what they want because of the volume of pax and thus revenue they bring to their airports. It's entirely for the PR and nothing to do with profitability of the routes themselves.
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The budget airline shrunk the number of routes at the airport from 17 to three this winter but will increase them again next summer, aviation sources said.
The dramatic reduction, blamed on air passenger duty (APD) when announced in February, was understood to have been permanent rather than seasonal
Glasgow was left with Dublin, Wroclaw and Krakow, but four other routes have been added, with more expected to follow.
They are Warsaw Modlin, Malaga, Alicante and Brussels Charleroi, which are likely to start from March or April.
However, Ryanair is not expected to reinstate the one aircraft that was based at Glasgow, with the flights being operated by planes based elsewhere.
One source said: “Despite the vocal withdrawal of most services from Glasgow, they have reinstated several routes for Summer 2019.
“I am bound to wonder whether they will make any form of positive announcement to counteract the negative press earlier this year at the time of the pull-down.
“They do seem to be having a bit of a reshuffle but the volte face on Glasgow is pretty remarkable.”
Another source said: “Many Ryanair services are returning to Glasgow for summer 2019, all with away based aircraft.
“Seven routes added to the schedules so far, but expect more to be added.
"It will be interesting to see if routes such as Stansted, Berlin, Lisbon, Sofia and Madrid are included.”
However, Prestwick may lose flights.
So far, 44 flights a week are planned compared to 53 last summer and 60 in 2016.
Ryanair blamed the Scottish Government’s failure to halve APD from £13 to £6.50 per person per flight.
The airline refused to provide details of the changes.
A spokesman said: “Our summer 2019 schedule is being finalised and will be launched soon.”