Edinburgh Airport, could it be any worse?

[Impress to inflate]

Try Melbourne DOM and INT, both holes, a constant building site with easy 70's decor, poorly laid out, over crowded, poor selections of shops and places to eat then if you can get something to eat, there's no where to sit down to eat it. My favourite used to be Sumburgh, always a joy to travel threw.

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by Skipness One Echo

Sorry but disagree strongly on the transit point. MAN now has ANOTHER security check on ALL domestic travellers at the biometric gates to allow the SMALL volume of connecting passengers to avoid UK Border checks.

THAT is a pain in the proverbial when you are flying Edinburgh - Exeter and have to change from the pier to gates 1-19.

BTW, on the subject of EDI, does anyone know what happened to Gate 8? :-)

[Davef68]

Originally Posted by Impress to inflate

My favourite used to be Sumburgh, always a joy to travel threw.

Sumburgh is nice these days, but I miss the upstairs viewing area

[kkbuk]

Harry Wayfarers, you sound like an inveterate snob! The cost of my flight has nothing to do with the organisational capabilities of the staff employed at Edinburgh airport, therefore I suggest that you wind your neck in!

[Skipness One Echo]

It's attracting much more than P2P these days. I have first hand experience of it. Every. Single. Day. EDI is now a place where a lot of the long haul carriers send people to transit to other long haul services.

Long haul to long haul via EDI? Ok so you work at EDI, this would be US to ME I assume, how many people per day? Would they fill a double decker bus? Honestly??
GLA got delusions of grandeur once, assumed UA GLA-IAD would be filled by Midland feeding from CPH......!

[Davef68]

Re the headline question - the answer is yes, it could be Luton.

A departure lounge with seats for probably 1/4 of the people in there (Space given over to another of these 'you must walk through this' shops and an increased number of food outlets in what used to be seating areas, all designed to make you spend money on overpriced fare just to get a seat.)

[edi_local]

Originally Posted by Skipness One Echo

Long haul to long haul via EDI? Ok so you work at EDI, this would be US to ME I assume, how many people per day? Would they fill a double decker bus? Honestly??
GLA got delusions of grandeur once, assumed UA GLA-IAD would be filled by Midland feeding from CPH......!

If they built such a facility then clearly more passengers would then use EDI to transit. And yes, I do think the numbers would fill at least a double decker bus when people going both ways are taken into consideration.


I just think it'as incredibly illogical to require people to pass through UK immigration when they are not even coming to the UK and it makes a journey through EDI a hassle for those who have to. It is about time the terminal joined the modern world and if having a better transit facility means a tiny inconvenience to domestic passengers then so be it.

[ExXB]

Those would be 'interline' connections as no airline has a hub in EDI. Through prices would be sum-of-sector fares - probably not very competitive. I doubt if you would get half a double-decker bus a year doing that.

And having done it once, it's likely no one would never do it again.