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Eastern managed to fill a daily J41 between IOM-GLA, as did Citywing with 2 daily L410s at higher fares than Loganair charge on their less frequent EDI-IOM. I've taken the EDI service four times now and the highest load has been leaving IOM on a Friday evening with 20 on board the 340. Whilst the tram to Edinburgh Park & the train back to Glasgow is a pain (and there's normally quite a few pax doing just the same) it still beats the train down to Lancaster/Liverpool and the ferry. Loganair started the EDI service when Eastern were still running the GLA route so I guess they don't want to drop the route relatively soon after starting it.
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Airdrie-Bathgate line trains go straight through to my station, 5 minute walk away, without having to change, so I'm door to door in around 90 minutes with only the change at Edinburgh Park.
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Got a version of this emailed. Seems an additional brand new lounge option at GLA, assuming this will be more upmarket that the current UpperDeck offering (which isn't great). Think I would have preferred an external competitive lounge provider than than these inhouse attempts.
Glasgow Airport unveils designs for new £1.6m executive lounge | Airport Business
Glasgow Airport unveils designs for new £1.6m executive lounge | Airport Business
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Got a version of this emailed. Seems an additional brand new lounge option at GLA, assuming this will be more upmarket that the current UpperDeck offering (which isn't great). Think I would have preferred an external competitive lounge provider than than these inhouse attempts.
Glasgow Airport unveils designs for new £1.6m executive lounge | Airport Business
Glasgow Airport unveils designs for new £1.6m executive lounge | Airport Business
Hopefully it turns out better than the Artist impression.
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Suppose thats what happens when the Scottish market gets flooded with cheap German seats and FR ditches as competition.
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Yes. Absolutely no surprise on the LH cuts. Glasgow remains and will always be "bucket and spade" seasonal, and one long haul Carrier via DXB for those doing long haul down under etc for hols on year round basis. Soon I suspect BRS will be beating it with pax loads if it is not already!
Joe Curry was right.
Yes he was.
It has really become clear just how much of GLA's success and growth was as a result of central planning in the Scottish Airports days who, for all the right reasons, saw GLA as the country's gateway, at the expense of both PIK and EDI. A business has to prioritise in that way if you are responsible for all three. That environment saw a sleepy EDI and a fully capable international capability at GLA, opened just as the transatlantic bubble popped. NWA never got to use and United used it for one winter before axing IAD.
Almost thirty years later, Lufthansa still can't make a decent go of GLA, and there is no more Sabena, legacy European is missing.
BUT the sheer volume of seats from A to B out of Scotland has never been healthier or higher, these are good days to travel. Just not quite the future we were all expecting if we grew up watching BA flying TriStars to JFK....
For me, the day BA launched LGW-EDI before LGW-GLA was the day I knew the market was moving East.
Yes he was.
It has really become clear just how much of GLA's success and growth was as a result of central planning in the Scottish Airports days who, for all the right reasons, saw GLA as the country's gateway, at the expense of both PIK and EDI. A business has to prioritise in that way if you are responsible for all three. That environment saw a sleepy EDI and a fully capable international capability at GLA, opened just as the transatlantic bubble popped. NWA never got to use and United used it for one winter before axing IAD.
Almost thirty years later, Lufthansa still can't make a decent go of GLA, and there is no more Sabena, legacy European is missing.
BUT the sheer volume of seats from A to B out of Scotland has never been healthier or higher, these are good days to travel. Just not quite the future we were all expecting if we grew up watching BA flying TriStars to JFK....
For me, the day BA launched LGW-EDI before LGW-GLA was the day I knew the market was moving East.
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Joe Curry was right.
Yes he was.
It has really become clear just how much of GLA's success and growth was as a result of central planning in the Scottish Airports days who, for all the right reasons, saw GLA as the country's gateway, at the expense of both PIK and EDI. A business has to prioritise in that way if you are responsible for all three. That environment saw a sleepy EDI and a fully capable international capability at GLA, opened just as the transatlantic bubble popped. NWA never got to use and United used it for one winter before axing IAD.
Almost thirty years later, Lufthansa still can't make a decent go of GLA, and there is no more Sabena, legacy European is missing.
BUT the sheer volume of seats from A to B out of Scotland has never been healthier or higher, these are good days to travel. Just not quite the future we were all expecting if we grew up watching BA flying TriStars to JFK....
For me, the day BA launched LGW-EDI before LGW-GLA was the day I knew the market was moving East.
Yes he was.
It has really become clear just how much of GLA's success and growth was as a result of central planning in the Scottish Airports days who, for all the right reasons, saw GLA as the country's gateway, at the expense of both PIK and EDI. A business has to prioritise in that way if you are responsible for all three. That environment saw a sleepy EDI and a fully capable international capability at GLA, opened just as the transatlantic bubble popped. NWA never got to use and United used it for one winter before axing IAD.
Almost thirty years later, Lufthansa still can't make a decent go of GLA, and there is no more Sabena, legacy European is missing.
BUT the sheer volume of seats from A to B out of Scotland has never been healthier or higher, these are good days to travel. Just not quite the future we were all expecting if we grew up watching BA flying TriStars to JFK....
For me, the day BA launched LGW-EDI before LGW-GLA was the day I knew the market was moving East.
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NWA never got to use?
Key point is Scottish Airports intended to get an ROI by funneling most of Scotland intercontinental out of GLA and leaving EDI to deal with city P2P, then Edinburgh became a much more well known city destination and GLA and EDI became competitors. EDI now does to GLA what GLA routinely once did to PIK. What a family!
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