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atuk wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 3:35 pm It’s suggested that there are also issues with FR on ABZ routes.

What kind of issues?

Obviously the management are well aware of the lack of USA direct flights and are working on it constantly. Indeed Andy Cliffe said it himself. Sadly it’s not as easy as we would all want though. It's not that easy, but it shouldn't be as difficult as it appears given we had US service for 25yrs an...

Does route development fall under the responsibility of the COO? I thought it was under the commercial team and CCO?

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/ryanair-to-exit-french-airport Ryanair is to close a base at Bordeaux airport after failing to reach an agreement over fees. The airline operates around 40 routes to and from the French airport with three aircraft based there and 90 staff. But Ryanair confirmed th...

Airports press release:

https://www.glasgowairport.com/media-ce ... mmer-2025/

It was dissapointing when Sun Express announced this summer's UK expansion and went into LBA, NCL and EDI, but not GLA - so its good to see us catching up.

A reminder of the volumes of American visitors coming to the west of Scotland and how important they are. I don't like to imagine how much negative impact on this market the lack of any direct scheduled flights to the USA is having. https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/24301377.without-amer...

This is idiotic of Emirates. As highlighted before a lot premier business travellers from EDI would travel to GLA to use Emirates when it was twice daily ( I know as numerous neighbours in EDI did just that) . The same business travellers no longer use Emirates due to frequency and they certainly w...

This is exactly the situation I was driving at in this thread a couple of weeks ago re GLA having all its eggs in one basket and failing to entice competitors for EK. EK see QR with double daily at EDI with high load factors that could possibly go 3xdaily, so they feel they need to step into prevent...

At least WRO appears to be operating into winter, that's a small win!