Since, at the moment, there's not a Scottish passport, just a British one, if the Spanish are happy for the English to travel, they'll be OK with the Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh as well. Since the UK has seen no meaning fall in the daily numbers of new cases since the start of April, and nothing changes significantly in the next 2 or 3 weeks there'll be no chance of anyone being allowed to enter Spain from UK, (unless they are residents or key workers) by 17th June, whatever Nicola says.

My point was that just because you can book a flight for a certain date, doesn't mean they will actually go ahead.
My view is that there will be no holiday flights to Spain on the 17th of June.

Got it. You were far too subtle for prune!

https://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/...ss-from-august

If this holds true for all of Spain, then they are looking at August for domestic market and some time later for overseas visitors.
I think Greece and Portugal are looking at holidays with social distancing measures but have implied it will likely be domestic or near continent visitors who can access the countries initially by driving.
Many of the Transport Select Committee hearing witnesses on Wednesday suggested 3 to 5 months as optimistic period for restarting operations. The reality is everyone awaits some government guidance (both UK and global) as to how we get the world moving again. Until then, the vacuum is filled with best guesses. Maybe we will get something more concrete in BoJo's roadmap on Sunday - we can but hope...

latest update:

Qatar have reduced June service to 3 weekly slowly increasing in July and August but have down scaled the aircraft to a B787 from the A350-900. On the positive side they are restarting. Scheduled 2x A350-900 from 1st April 2021.

In better news, It looks like American have scheduled EDI in as a 787-8 on the Philadelphia route next year. That's something I certainly didn't see coming.

Link:
https://www.americanairlines.co.uk/b...9112796158-569

Must have been updated as now showing a B787 😊
As far as I can see it’s 6days per week from late March 2021.
This of course might change again.....

I have a booking with Qatar for November and it is still showing A350-900

Qatar are going 1x daily A350-900 from the 1st of September.

I'd take anything in forward airline schedules with a serious pinch of salt right now - 1 September is a very long way away.

I am trying not to be pessimistic, and have to hope that a level of some normalisation occurs, we are not going to be in this forever more. I have flights booked from EDI to/ from Tokyo booked from September onwards. Work carries on.....

Eurowings pencilled in to start Cologne from the 24th May 2x weekly.
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...as-of-10may20/

Regards 4ea

Guys, all these posts about airlines re-starting are going to be worth next to nothing. The situation is fast moving, especially with the announcement that all incomers will have to quarantine for two whole weeks. A lot of this is about airlines getting cashflow into their veins and taking a while to give it back.....

You'll drive yourself nuts trying to keep up with this, the truth is the summer season, all of it, is effectively lost. Make your peace with that fact and hang onto your sanity.

Spot on S1F

Of course the situation is fluid and everything has to be taken with a pinch of salt. I'm only passing on news and opinion. if none of us did then this site would be pointless!

Regards 4ea

BA City Flyer Possibly pulling out of EDI as seen on British Airways thread. Guess they are expecting the business passengers to fall away given the circumstances and the prospect of meetings being conducted online

Best case scenario is they are cutting the crew base and the pilots and will run the ops from LCY instead, overnighting a few crews for early departures. Might kill the summer flights to Florence and the holiday flights to Spain that Barrhead travel use.

I wouldn't call that a "best case scenario" if you're an Edinburgh-based BACF pilot or cabin crew member. It's all in the perspective. Thoughts with those who may well be affected....

The crew base is closing but LCY-EDI would be one of the last routes to be dropped IMHO, however am not sure BA will be serving all three London bases anytime soon.

At the moment it looks like EasyJet will be starting from the 1st of June with an extremely reduced schedule. 1st of July is currently when they "plan" to restart normal ops (I have a feeling that won't be happening). I do though think EasyJet will resume certain routes at low frequency from the 1st of June.