EDINBURGH - 2
 

Starting New Thread After Old One Was Closed.

Anyone think that Jet2 / Ryanair might expand more at the airport any time soon? :)

I think Jet2 will continue to expand at Glasgow rather than EDI, and I believe Ryanair are dropping 3 or 4 routes in S14 (Fuerteventura and some others IIRC).

Jet2 have added a weekly flight to Reus from EDI for summer 14.

and Verona!

Not really Jet2 expansion, rather cutting back on some routes and adding new ones in their place.

GLA will be the big player north of the border for S14 onwards

Whats the point of Edinburgh / Verona ( lovely city ) as I cannot see any city breaks there on the website ?

Verona is only about an hour by train from Venice, similar to Milan in the other direction.

Much more to do with a rather large and traditional lake resort "Garda"
Just a few miles away.

I thought Jet2 went to Venice already from Edinburgh?

But I dont see any package holidays advertised ( yet ?)

Is it just me, or has this thread got boring? And what happened on the original EDI thread that was so bad it had to be closed? I posted that I thought it would be interesting to see how the competition between Qatar and TK at EDI and EK at GLA worked out in what is a limited market (a reasonable post I would have thought) and the whole thread gets shut down!

Just released:

November delivers strong passenger numbers for Edinburgh Airport

If ratified by the CAA this would set a new Scottish Airport passenger record?

EDI now UK's #5 Busiest Airport
 

CAA provisional data for November indicates that Edinburgh Airport has moved up one place in the UK 12-month passenger league to number 5 after overtaking Luton.

The figures are subject to confirmation by the CAA.

EDI is now 38,417 ahead of LTN based on the latest 12-month count

BA to IBZ
 

It would appear that BA will start operating from the 23rd May 2014 until 7th September 2014. Aircraft to be operated A32S.

BA8890 EDI 22:35 IBZ 02:35 257
BA8891 IBZ 03:35 EDI 05:40 146

Interesting times!!
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<<Whats the point of Edinburgh / Verona ( lovely city ) as I cannot see any city breaks there on the website ?>>

I just got the Thomson Lakes and Mountains brouchure, Jet2 are doing the lakes for Thomson from Edinburgh

A lot of folk poured scorn on my opinions that BA would operate International
flights from EDI, this could be an advance of even more to come.

This is a good for BA, earning money when the A320 would otherwise we be sitting on the ground doing nothing.

Fokker 50 cityjet to start edinburgh cardiff from summer 14.

Are the BA flights to IBZ simply holiday charters for someone as opposed to BA scheduled. Limited season and night flights would indicate as such. They did similar (or Cityflyer did) from GLA to FAO during some summer seasons

ScotsSLF I thought that too initially but they are on sale via the website and are loaded onto the GDS's.

The Ibiza flights seem to be a "hybrid" - Club Europe is available, flight numbers are similar to Cityflyer (BA89xx) and seems charter orienatated, available via website, etc.

Seems a similar use (maybe as an experiment?) of capacity to that BA Cityflyer for Barrhead Travel at Glasgow.

But 3 weekly to IBZ? You'd have thought even PMI/AGP/IBZ once weekly each. I think this will bite them in the Nigels, just seems too much capacity on one route. OTOH, just clocked that its one bucket and spade route not served by Ryanair.

Oh yes, Mr C - don't you think MAN and BHX would be considered first, in the unlikely event BA mainline were to lose their London Airways title? Besides, isn't any bucket n spade route one of your regular disses?

Nothing to say that BA can't use overnight capacity wisely though, at ANY 24 hour airport, if crewing allows.

Hope its a success, though should MOL get his grubby mitts on the route, BA will disappear sharpish :}

TK to increase to 11 x weekly from 29 March

Schedule is

TK1343 IST 08:20 EDI 10:50 739 M-W-FSa-
TK1343 IST 08:40 EDI 11:10 739 -Tu-Th--Su
TK1345 IST 12:35 EDI 15:05 738 -Tu-ThF-Su

Ex

BA Cityflyer scheduled service to PMI and MAH

These are visible but not yet bookable on the BA website.

Saturdays

PMI
BA4471 EDI 0730 PMI 1130 E190
BA4472 PMI 1230 EDI 1435 E190

MAH
BA4473 EDI 1630 MAH 2030 E190
BA4474 MAH 2120 EDI 2320 E190

Ex

http://i.imgur.com/gKAgpnd.jpg

2nd bite at the cherry required last night? Not surprised given the wind that was blowing at the time!

Some idiot was firing a laser at it on both approaches and there was significant wind-shear on the second approach too.

The airport has being evacuated and closed after suspicious package was found in a bag at security.


Edinburgh Airport evacuated over suspect package - The Scotsman

Probably a pilots yogurt.

Now reopened. Sounds like it was a precaution than an actual threat.

Airport closure due to a suspicious package in a security area
 

Over-reaction or not? I would have thought that there was no need to divert incoming traffic, which could have parked remotely after landing. But the police and "authorities" seem ready to take an ultra safety-first approach when it comes to closing roads and airports. This happened yesterday at EDI.

But I am not a policeman or a security professional. Could someone explain the reasons for the closure?

Complete over-reaction but symptomatic of the arse-covering, risk-averse age in which we live.:{

Roy, we don't know whether or not the police received a warning of a bomb being planted. If that was the case the nature of the bomb might not have been known (eg chemical, germs etc). Would you want to land an aircraft full of people in an area which may become lethally contaminated or to land through thick, black smoke billowing across the runway?

:ok: Fully concur with MaxReheat.

DX, you are forgetting the nearby school, kindergarten, old age home, etc. :yuk:

Get a life, people!

Nowadays, risk aversion has little to do with LMF and is only partly a symptom of a CYA management style. The main reason is that avoiding risk is an increasingly prudent reaction to the highly litigious society in which we now live.

Put a foot wrong and somebody, somewhere is going to sue you.

= in my book anyway :)

I agree with MaxReheat. What I worry about more is that with such over-reaction these days, some poor soul is going to be inbound doing a diversion when they close an airport and they won't be able to make it to another runway with the minimal fuel their bosses legally restrained them from carrying. I wonder what the police and the airlines will say about their overabundance of caution and meeting of legal minimums being proper if they find yet another non-bomb and have to admit that it was completely their fault that an airliner was lost with hundreds of fatalities?

Sawman - airliners always have enough fuel for a divert, and if they had an issue they could still call "mayday" and would be allowed to land, even in the middle of a security alert.

On one of those fly-on-the-wall programs, they evacuated the airport after a passenger had an ashtray that looked on the x-ray machine silhouette a bit like a grenade. The passenger was more than happy to open up his bag and show the security guys that it was an ashtray, but they wouldn't let him. The airport was closed for hours. Sometimes some common sense would help...

However we don't know the circumstances around this. To be honest, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often!

Whilst it may have been an over reaction this is just plain twaddle.

Not necessarily, i could find myself in that situation quite easily.