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by Bearsden
Fri May 17, 2024 2:18 pm
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 355

Re: CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024

An interesting comparison is with 2018 when Scotland's Top 5 handled 28.5m passengers

EDINBURGH +0.7m +5%
GLASGOW -2.3m -24%
ABERDEEN -0.8m -28%
INVERNESS -0.1m -11%
PRESTWICK -0.2m -23%

TOTAL -2.7m -10%
by Bearsden
Fri May 17, 2024 9:50 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 355

Re: CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024

G-WATP wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 8:51 am Does that monthly growth support the claim to be 'Scotland's fastest growing airport" made at the recent Routes conference?
No

Neither in % terms nor absolute terms

EDINBURGH +10.75% +108,537
GLASGOW +10.12% +52,260
ABERDEEN +0.44% +768
INVERNESS -4.74% -2,548
PRESTWICK +11.21% 2,834
by Bearsden
Fri May 17, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 355

CAA TRAFFIC STATISTICS - MAR 2024

2024 568,517
2023 516,257
+10%
by Bearsden
Wed May 15, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: AGS for sale?
Replies: 4
Views: 375

Re: AGS for sale?

The latest quarterly results from Ferrovial note that the debt has been refinanced (edits in red show changes) Cash amounted to GBP 17 million as of March 31, 2024 (GBP 65 million as of December 31, 2023). - £48 million AGS net debt stood at GBP 616 million as of March 31, 2023 (GBP 693 million as o...
by Bearsden
Wed May 15, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: AGS for sale?
Replies: 4
Views: 375

Re: AGS for sale?

Not at all surprising - they vastly overpaid and have significantly underinvested in building market share ever since Both have probably written down / written off their investments & loans None of the three airports are 'setting the heather on fire' - all three have different issues but all three a...
by Bearsden
Tue May 14, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: Interesting Movements 2024
Replies: 75
Views: 7273

Re: Interesting Movements 2024

Sharpal7 wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:11 pm
rjon wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 8:18 am
Bearsden wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 11:12 pm BBN Airlines A321 TC-GPE showing on FR24 for tomorrow morning ex Goose Bay
Looks like they never left Goose Bay last night
Now showing ETA EGPF 20:40 from YYR, ETD 21:40 to IST
ETA on FR24 2014L
by Bearsden
Mon May 13, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: Interesting Movements 2024
Replies: 75
Views: 7273

Re: Interesting Movements 2024

BBN Airlines A321 TC-GPE showing on FR24 for tomorrow morning ex Goose Bay
by Bearsden
Thu May 09, 2024 11:20 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: SunExpress Antalya
Replies: 18
Views: 1034

Re: SunExpress Antalya

I am not convinced that this will be marginal growth ie impacting existing operators or destination switching

Where is all this disposable income coming from?
by Bearsden
Tue May 07, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Other Aviation
Topic: Scottish airport to trial 'free parking' as part of luggage changes
Replies: 3
Views: 293

Re: Scottish airport to trial 'free parking' as part of luggage changes

Looks good on first glance.... But and it's a big but, You need to have purchased an airport car parking space. So if you live locally it means you're paying for something you don't need for "free" access to drop off your bags. Little bit of a gimmick imo. Agreed . . . . gets the headline and adds ...
by Bearsden
Mon May 06, 2024 10:46 am
Forum: GLA News and Discussion
Topic: Emirates
Replies: 354
Views: 39526

Re: Emirates

Shambles but not surprised. Surely this should work both ways Not when the commercial deal / value proposition is not being matched or exceeded - EDI will shortly have a new majority shareholder who paid £1.27 billion for a 50.01% share of the business . . . . they clearly going to go for expansion...