Edinburgh-4

[nighthawk117]

They've done the same with Newcastle too. I wonder if they are concentrating on Frankfurt for now until demand recovers? No doubt it will return in the future.

[cavokblues]

I was just looking at the figures from a more 'normal' year in 2019 - 11k pax between Edinburgh and Munich in Feb 2019 and 19k in August 2019. That's a lot of demand to have just disappeared now to be only served by one airline which, at the time of writing, will not even be daily! I guess it shows the true impact some airlines think Covid will have had on demand this year.

[Plane mad 134]

As reported on other threads, EasyJet are to start a 2x weekly EDI-BOH service from the 27th of May. Good to see some extra domestic services added.

[Plane mad 134]

Ryanair are adding a new 2x weekly service to Knock operating on Wednesday and Sunday, commencing the 1st of September. Will be year round. Good news to see more new routes.

[VickersVicount]

interesting theyre dropping 5/wk EDI-LDY and starting NOC 2/wk.
Loads were often a bit ropey on a BE dash never mind a 738.

[nighthawk117]

In fairness, you can't really Knock it until you've tried it

[tictack67]

Knock is not meant to be a substitute for LDY as it's nearly a 4 hour drive from LDY.

NOC serves greater Co Sligo market, Knock serviced about 1 million precovid and before Ryanair.

LDY dropped/suspended due to Brexit rules about domestic flights.

So Brexit reduces domestic flights within the UK...great.

[Skipness One Foxtrot]

Is there a reason Ryanair UK can't operate EDI-LDY? That's why they've just put another one on the UK register.

[tictack67]

nothing to stop "Ryanair UK" operating domestically within the UK.
They planned to Just wetlease any of the 450 a/c to Ryanair UK but the CAA won't allow this.

There are only 2 G- reg aircraft now. So maybe a while before more UK domestic routes added.

[Plane mad 134]

Announced a few days ago that Lauda are adding a new 2x weekly Zadar service.

Also very early days but Lufthansa have put the first few days of S22 on sale and MUC appears to return (7x weekly A319) from the 27th of March 2022.

[ld0595]

Twice weekly service to Riga with Air Baltic starting on 4th June. Flights are Mondays and Fridays and run until the end of October.

https://www.leta.lv/eng/home/press_r...-17859CF5E9F2/

[A350Saltire]

Will be nice to see the A220 at EDI

[Asturias56]

I suspect they'll become quite popular on thin European routes

[Plane mad 134]

Fantastic news, hopefully the service goes ahead!

[tictack67]

Asturias56

Can you elaborate, the A220-300 for Air Baltic has 145 seats.

[Asturias56]

If you look at the A318 thread that's around somewhere on here the general feeling is that LCO's are currently using the A.320 as the baseline and most expect to convert to the A321.

That's the reason Airbus bought the programme from Bombardier - its fits in under their current main offerings. An LCO needs a lot of seats (relatively speaking) because of the cost structure. Use turboprops for the real low cost/short range stuff and jets with over 100 seats for the mass market. Certainly in Europe & ME that'll be the pattern

[tictack67]

Ah yes totally agree, thought you meant specifically Edinburgh to Riga was a thin route, Air Baltic only have the A220

[VickersVicount]

perhaps it is, if only twice weekly summer only..

[Plane mad 134]

In reaction to Air Baltic coming on to the route, Ryanair have increased EDI-RIX from 2x to 4x weekly (new Mon and Fri flights).

[CabinCrewe]

Ryanair will have them for dinner... 6 flights a week now between them? Lets see how long Air Baltic hang around, if they even start.