Its running daily until the end of September i think. Dubai goes back up to twice daily at the start of June with the 777 taking the evening slot and the A380 moving to lunchtime.

Not sure what happens in October. EK have suggested this could be an annual seasonal upgrade if successful. No plans to run all year round as yet.

Thanks, both!

Meanwhile, I'd love to know some yield control numbers!

I believe it's a 489 seat A380 that's being used - The service is going from two LD 77Ws pd to 1 LD 77W + 1 A380. So it's going from about 720 seats ewpd to about 850ish - about 135 extra seats ewpd on top of the capacity they've been operating at GLA for many years. As such I'm not sure it's really much of an unreasonable rise, I'm sure EK have increased capacity like this at many airports across their network - when the service sent from 1 to 2 daily many years ago that was a bigger jump in capacity and it seemed to go fine.

I guess EDI plays into it, but we'll have to see - notice QR ramping up frequency at EDI too, perhaps EK actions may be motivated to some extent by this.

A388 Config
 

Tonight is a 519 seat aircraft per EK The Source and 491 seat aircraft last night although I can't vouch for the accuracy.

Pete

Can confirm this, inbound had over 500 tonight with only 2 or 3 spare seats. No clue on outbound load though

Glasgow egpf forum
 

Anyone on here a subscriber to the egpfforum? It has been unavailable since 20th April, never known it to be down for so long.

EK26 A380 lined up about an hour ago to head off to DXB - ended up trundling down the runway and back to the stand where its sits right now. Wonder why? First blip since its arrival

Afaik there has been a problem with the domain. I believe a new replacement forum is in the pipeline, so hopefully that should be up and running soon.

Thank you, it actually came back on-line last night.

The egpfforum.com is back up and running. The domain problem has been resolved but the replacement is now a back up option

Do you have access to on-stand & off-stand times to question local handling?
Have you factored in inbound delays?
One outbound sector had to return to stand to offload a passenger + hold luggage.
Remember scheduled times are still set to B777 slot of 1 hour 45 minutes.
Obviously cargo has had to be re-routed during this period of single runway use at Dubai

Jet2 finally seem to be on sale with Summer 2020

Yes that's right purely for the TT races. Yet another route that GLA can't 'sustain' for some reason.