There's nothing visible from landside even if you did take the kids. The original 1977 terminal was blessed with it's own roof terrace and apron views from the ground floor. All gone alas. The operation is geared towards getting peeps through airside asap to spend.
Sadly.

trouble is a lot of the spend is in bars...............

Would have thought the more pressing need was airbridges, wide body stands and the like. Presumably the security move frees up space for lounges, necessary for the long mooted Middle East carrier. But that's not nearly enough.

Like other posters have said the Int Arrivals area is fast becoming a joke.

Ultimately, International Arrivals/Departures moving to SE Pier with 4 airbridges being installed (at approx 1 million per bridge). More concrete going down and realignment of stands to be undertaken.

Domestic operations will revert back to Stands 1-5, as per many years ago - BM Stand 1 and BA Stands 2-4. Stands 7-14 will also be used for domestic.

Current BA lounge (opposite gates 10 and 11) will close and relocate to former bmi lounge (gate 5). New independant company who provide lounges to international airlines worldwide, will then take the 'old' BA lounge.

As per recent publicity regarding the extension, and relocation of current security screening area, phase one of the revamp should be up and running by JUN 2014

GIP clearly see the need for improvements and hopefully more good news soon ;)

Passenger totals for August 2013
 

For two months in a row EDI has broken the 1 million passenger barrier.

You're one in two million, have a coffee on Edinburgh Airport! Airport?s delight as August is second million passenger month

It looks like that terminal extension can't come soon enough.

Flybe will operate a new ski-charter flight to Verona this winter, operating on Saturdays, late December through late March on behalf of Thomson/Cristal Ski.

Seems like Verona will be linked to Edinburgh almost on a year-round basis.

LS is to announce a new summer seasonal summer service to this Italian destination from 14 May through the very end of September.

Edelweiss Air starting a 2 weekly service to Zurich with A320 from next March.

Looking at BM loads on the route it will be interesting to see what putting 180 seats on the route does albeit at a twice weekly frequency during summer months. Presumably its aimed at low cost inbounders.
Im guessing the business orientated BMr route will have gone by next year.

This route had up to 5000 pax per month when Crossair operated in 2000 (last full year before they went bust).

Going even further back (pre Crossair scheduled) there was a very successful charter series running throughout the summer. They were operated by MD-80s IIRC.

So running a low cost summer series should work but what is needed is a year round scheduled operation from a higher profile airline. However EZY Basel daily operation may preclude this.

Ex

That's a nice colourful addition. Did fly with Crossair on the Saab 2000 years ago, was very good to be honest. Pity the times are so early in the the day, makes a weekend break very short, in either direction.

EDI-ORD announced

United Airlines to launch Edinburgh-Chicago route - Edinburgh Evening News

Lets hope its more successful than some of the other EDI transatlantic attempts ! Slightly odd choice from ORD instead of IAD as with the other CO expansion. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. I presume its seasonal narrowbody. I would expect further revisions to the high season double EWR.

I can't see any reasons why a new owner with EDI long haul enthusiasm should not succeed where a previous long haul reluctant owner failed?

I'm sure it'll sit very nicely, and successfully, alongside the busiest UK-Newark route outside of London and an Air Canada service to YYZ with very high loads. Great to see Chicago back as a direct destination from Scotland. EDI is doing fantastically well securing new routes. Middle East announcement next, with any luck. ;)

Lordy and people say I'm negative? Well I am but hey...
United launched Shannon-Chicago this summer and it does appear to have done quite well, quite a distance on the B757 but it's doable easily in summer, winter ops on American's MAN-ORD needed the occasional tech stop. This is replacement for the second Newark (?) clearly, so capacity is capped but still good news.
Spill the beans big boy :)
It's surely a straight swap on Newark for Chicago alas so not actually a capacity increase, that's what they did when they launched MAN-IAD. They need to get the South East pier up to International Standards ASAP, it's a bloody joke as it is.

It's operating in addition to the 2nd EWR, so 3 UA services from EDI during the summer.

Interesting to see this is an additional service on top of the 2 daily EWR.

When MAN/DUB to IAD were announced, it was to replace the 2nd daily EWR, so is great to see some actual expansion by United, and not just replacing one with another.

Well done to GIP and EDI. I do hope this does last past the incentive period unlike a lot of LGW carriers that haven't made it past the initial discount period.

Air Canada Rouge are increasing the frequency of YYZ to 5x weekly for Summer 2014.

Source

Always thought it could do with a higher frequency. The first shorter season must have been just to test the water. Presumably the higher frequency again is just a summer only service ? The heavy leisure route has never really needed much during the winter.
I see MAN has gone straight in with 5 per week.
So far the newly released Air Transat timetable ex GLA remains unchanged in response at 5 per week with A310s and some A330, plus YVR and YYC on A330's