It doesn't bother me in the slightest, I just was a bit surprised to see them offer EDI daily in September when Qatar are only 4x weekly on a B787-8. As said above though Emirates have now changed to October 1st.

Not that odd actually, Air Canada in the last few weeks filed aircraft changes for Montreal – Dublin service during summer 2021 season, which sees the airline schedules Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft service, instead of Boeing 787-8.

Routes seem to be amended bit by bit so maybe more aircraft downgrades

Not a surprise, but I see Delta have pushed back their restart to 1st October and United are now 25th October. Beginning to think it might a bigger surprise if they even make those dates.

Emirates now showing October for 1st flight from Edi

EI have considerably reduced flights to Dublin in Sept & early October - one flight per day in most instances.

I wonder how many were on today's Qatar flight?

41 pax were booked on it

Thanks. No wonder they've been culling flights.

Inbound was into triple figures...? Although not exactly great either.

Not sure how much cargo they're carrying just now.

Cargo would make the difference. I flew out of Tokyo on a beautiful Airbus 351 with only 8 passengers but it still ran daily as the were filling the belly with cargo so made the flight economical with or without passengers. I don’t know how much we import/export through Qatar but perhaps there is enough to sustain a few flights per week even with very soft passenger numbers.

But frequency cut to only 3 per week now...,😞

Yes, I suppose August is the anonomly the for Edinburgh, where likely huge groups bookings cancelled coming to Edinburgh for the Fringe, international, book TV and festivals and the tattoo all being cancelled.

Winter timetable showing daily flight with A321 on morning flight and B737-900 on evening flight with the occasional A320.

It's all up in the air of course and a worrying time for all airports in the UK, but good to see some confidence from airlines. Considering BA A have moved entire LGW shorthaul back to 7th Novemberr

Airlines have been posting schedules on the basis of anticipated demand. As flight time approaches it becomes clear that actual demand on longhaul routes is far less.

How do you know it was economical and not running at a loss?

The pandemic has resulted in cargo rates going through the roof; I know that because Mrs ATN works for a global logistics business (not an integrator) and finding space has been an issue, and contract rates gone out of the window. Cargo is normally the icing on the cake on a passenger operation, but in these unusual times it may well have made the difference between profit and thumping great loss when long haul passenger traffic has largely evaporated.

Long chat with board cabin crew who were telling me about the full loads of cargo each night but few passengers.

Just checked Skyscanner, it will be under a new callsign of AC807, Departing at the same time as the 763 would have.

It's being reported that EDI is to cut 250 jobs due to the downturn in traffic caused by Covid-19.
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Re AC807. I might be wrong but from my spotting days in the 1960s and early 70s I’m sure AC used to use the 80* series for the Prestwick Canada flights - AC 803 and 805 seem very familiar.

AC 813 CPH/PIK - YYZ on my first AC trip May 74. AC823 the regular number on LHR/PIK - YQX/YHZ into the 70s. Also remember a trip on AC852 YVR/YEG - PIK/LHR in Jun 78, op by 747.

To bring things back to the EDI thread, until around 1977 EDI Pax could travel via PIK connecting on to AC flights, as well as BAs own schedules by use of the BOAC/BA 'feeder' Viscount service.