Loganair S24 Confirmed Changes
 

As part of network wide changes the following routes will be impacted from Edinburgh, all information taken from AeroRoutes (https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240227-lmns24)


Edinburgh – Bergen Reduce from 6 to 4 weekly (6 weekly in second half of August)

Edinburgh – Exeter Reduce from 12 to 7 weekly

Edinburgh – Kirkwall Increase from 17 to 18 weekly

Edinburgh – Newquay Increase from 3 to 4 weekly

Edinburgh – Southampton Reduce from 30 to 26 weekly

QR

Ahead of departing EDI this morning en-route to LHR, a member of perm staff who I know well and trust was chatting to me re the proposed terminal expansion etc. Look out for firm planning applications in the near future. The subject of QR’s success was also brought up. The EDI route is currently seeing exceptionally high demand for this time of year and they are having no problem at all filling two A350’s. The onward bookings are also well ahead of projections. I’m led to believe they are actively considering the previously rumoured third daily or upgrading one of the services to a larger capacity aircraft. I assume this would be the 773? One to watch.

Lufthansa City or Lufthansa CityLine? Confusing I know but two different companies. When I checked and tweeted it last week it was CityLine.

Cityline.

Interesting chat. I assume there isn't any news about Emirates potentially restarting in the summer?

I think it’s quite well known that Emirates are short of aircraft so I think their appearance at EDI or a second daily at GLA is unlikely this summer.

Crews surely? They have a load of A380s still parked at DWC

Yeah agree they are struggling to recruit enough crews and until they can their expansion will be slower than they want. One thing is for sure though, QR’s ongoing success at EDI will not have gone unnoticed by EK. I just wonder how they will try and address it.

From a QR perspective I agree that a 777 on one of the rotations is a more likely first step rather than a third daily rotation (if they have a 777 they could allocate to the route - I’d hope it wouldnt be one of the ex Virgin Australia ones that MAN saw as the onboard product is less impressive than the standard QR ones and certainly worse than the A350).

Or perhaps deploy a B789 or 351 on one of the 2 daily rotations which both have larger capacity than the A350-9?
(ahead of adding a third flight per day)

I believe a brand new UA A321Neo has stopped in at EDI this morning on its way from Hamburg to the US. These will probably be a common sight at EDI in the coming years.

Aircraft is N14507

Anybody know why the 321 pitched up in EDI?

Isn't the US market meant to be suppled from aircraft assembled in Mobile, AL? Or I guess they don't have the capacity required given the order volume. NWA used to send A320/A319s TLS-PIK-YYR- on delivery, never quite worked out why they needed to stop in Scotland at all given United's A320s never fuel stopped before Canada.

Apparently there will be one calling at EDI every month on its way from Germany to the US.

Westjet S24

Halifax route extended to 14th October. Remains 3 x weekly. Credit PM.

FR adding WMI I think at 2x per week.

POZ also going from 3x to 4x per week.

credit: SeanM on X

AIR that the absence of flights to WMI was a result of a dispute between FR and Warsaw? Who blinked?

Ryanair S24 Changes
 

This should hopefully be the last of the changes for Summer 2024, but some rather unusual changes for Ryanair, especially on Marseille, full list of frequencies below. The first figure is the April figure with any mid season changes shown in brackets. There is also a summary at the bottom of the list.

AGA - 2 Weekly
ALC - 6 Weekly (rises to 7 weekly in July)
BCN - 9 Weekly (rises to 11 weekly in June)
BRI - 2 Weekly
BFS - 13 Weekly
EGC - 2 Weekly
BER - 8 Weekly (reduces to 7 weekly in June)
BZR - 2 Weekly
BIQ - 2 Weekly
BLL - 3 Weekly (rises to 4 weekly in June)
BLQ - 4 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June, returns to 4 weekly in October)
BOD - 4 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June)
BOH - 4 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June)
BTS - 2 Weekly
CRL - 9 Weekly (reduces to 8 weekly in June)
OTP - 2 Weekly
BUD - 7* Weekly (reduces to 6 weekly in June) *There is an 0825 Ryanair Sun flight on Thursdays currently showing as "Sold Out", this has not been counted
CPH - 10 Weekly (reduces to 9 weekly in June)
CFU - 1 Weekly
ORK - 7 Weekly
DUB - 31 Weekly (reduces to 29 weekly in June)
NRN - 6 Weekly
EIN - 2 Weekly
FAO - 6 Weekly
FUE - 2 Weekly
GDN - 3 Weekly (rises to 5 weekly in June)
LPA - 2 Weekly (rises to 3 weekly in June)
GOT - 2 Weekly
HAM - 4 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June)
IBZ - 2 Weekly
KUN - 2 Weekly (rises to 3 weekly in October)
NOC - 2 Weekly
KRK - 5 Weekly (reduces to 4 weekly in June)
ACE - 4 Weekly
LIS - 3 Weekly
STN - 21 Weekly
MAD - 5 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June)
AGP - 7 Weekly (reduces to 6 weekly in June)
MLA - 2 Weekly (rises to 3 weekly in June)
RAK - 2 Weekly
MRS - 4 Weekly in April, 5 weekly in May, 4 weekly in June-August, 3 weekly September & October
BGY - 7 Weekly (reduces to 6 weekly in June)
NTE - 3 Weekly (reduces to 2 weekly in June)
NAP - 3 Weekly
NQY - 2 Weekly
PMO - 2 Weekly
PMI - 8 Weekly (reduces to 7 weekly in June)
BVA - 5 Weekly (rises to 6 weekly in June)
PSA - 5 Weekly (is 4 weekly for the first 3 weeks of April)
PIS - 2 Weekly
OPO - 3 Weekly
POZ - 5 Weekly (reduces to 4 weekly in June)
PRG - 5 Weekly (reduces to 4 weekly in June)
RHO - 2 Weekly
RIX - 4 Weekly (reduces to 3 weekly in June)
CIA - 6 Weekly (Might reduce to 5 weekly from June, there is a "Sold Out" flight showing on Saturdays being operated by Malta Air at 0840)
SDR - 3 Weekly (reduces to 2 weekly in June)
SVQ - 3 Weekly
SNN - 2 Weekly (rises to 3 weekly in June)
SOF - 3 Weekly
TFS - 5 Weekly (rises to 6 weekly in June)
TIA - 2 Weekly
TLS - 2 Weekly (rises to 3 weekly in June)
VLC - 2 Weekly
VCE - 3 Weekly
WMI - 2 Weekly
WRO - 2 Weekly
ZAD - 2 Weekly

SUMMARY OF CHANGES

• Barcelona gains an additional flight throughout the season, but keeps its change in June
• Bologna loses a flight between June and September
• Budapest gained an additional flight in April and May, and there could be another flight added as well
• Copenhagen gains an additional flight throughout the season, but keeps its change in June
• Faro gains an additional flight
• Gdansk loses 2 flights in April and May
• Malaga gains a flight in April and May
• Marseille gains 2 flights in May and 1 in June-August
• Bergamo gains a flight in April and May
• Nantes gains a flight in April and May
• Paris gains an additional flight throughout the season, but keeps its change in June
• Poznan gains an additional flight throughout the season but keeps its change in June
• Rome might lose a flight from June
• Warsaw not loaded at 2 weekly

Week Commencing April 1st Departures = 309
Week Commencing July 1st Departures = 301

3 EDI updates I found early this morning and posted to X, Aer Lingus are also upping DUB flights this summer with the A320 added into the schedule for a morning flight every day.

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Re. the Aer Lingus upscale. I think that this used to be the case before Covid. It's the flight which will carry many of the PAX transferring to longhaul at DUB.

I did also see a comment last year when it operated saying the ATR would struggle with baggage on that flight, with particular mention made of golf clubs.