Emirates

[PiperOne]

I worked in KLM in 70s 80s and we had a freighter every night along with SAS and Swissair.
SAS sometimes had A DC8 from New York That came in, BEA also had a Vanguard freighter,
Aer Lingus operated a 737 2/3 pallet combi.
There were also many charters including odd wide body.

Glasgow use to be a major airfreight hub, looks like all this is lost.

Question how do they load the EK 777 or the 380.

There are a number of hi-loaders on site, with both handlers, which can do underfloor containers on widebodies, and can also reach 737 main deck level. Two are required for Emirates to get freight and baggage off and on during their shortish turnaround. These are also used for Tui 787s and Transat A330s, sadly all our other widebodies are long gone.

[greymare]

I thought B777 and B787 were widebody?? My mistake. I cant tell you how surprised I'am to learn that "sadly all our other widebodies are long gone". lol

[Paris]

I thought B777 and B787 were widebody?? My mistake. I cant tell you how surprised I'am to learn that "sadly all our other widebodies are long gone". lol

[Hialflyer]

I thought B777 and B787 were widebody?? My mistake. I cant tell you how surprised I'am to learn that "sadly all our other widebodies are long gone". lol

The message doenst say they aren't widebodies. It names EK, TUI and TSC as using the loaders but all OTHER widebodies have gone, What other airlines regularily use widebodies to GLA now?

[sunflyer]

Noticed there were 2 Emirates in today

[Clive]

Noticed there were 2 Emirates in today

There has been one resting up on 37-ish before it goes back to KEF to pick up its charter pax for AUH.

[pushingtinonceagain]

The overarching reason Glasgow hasn’t been increased to double daily (yet) simply comes down to the availability of crew.

There’s still 53 A388s sitting at DWC waiting to be either returned to service or scrapped. The A350 comes online next year and the 777X at some point in 2025. They have just announced the building of a new simulator complex with 8 new full flight sims capable of about 150,000 hours training capacity per year.

They can’t recruit en-mass the same number of flight deck and cabin crew as they sacked en-mass in 2020 because there isn’t the physical or hourly training capacity to get them rated and back flying, and now they are having to start adding in another 2 aircraft types. EKs operation absolutely dwarfs Qatar’s or Etihad so it just takes longer to get people into the seats they need to be in at the same rate.

The 2nd flight will be back in due course, and I’m confident that’ll be before anything from EK lands at Edinburgh. Plenty of shop talk in Dubai that Edinburgh is actually gone, full stop.

[Clive]

The overarching reason Glasgow hasn’t been increased to double daily (yet) simply comes down to the availability of crew.

There’s still 53 A388s sitting at DWC waiting to be either returned to service or scrapped. The A350 comes online next year and the 777X at some point in 2025. They have just announced the building of a new simulator complex with 8 new full flight sims capable of about 150,000 hours training capacity per year.

They can’t recruit en-mass the same number of flight deck and cabin crew as they sacked en-mass in 2020 because there isn’t the physical or hourly training capacity to get them rated and back flying, and now they are having to start adding in another 2 aircraft types. EKs operation absolutely dwarfs Qatar’s or Etihad so it just takes longer to get people into the seats they need to be in at the same rate.

The 2nd flight will be back in due course, and I’m confident that’ll be before anything from EK lands at Edinburgh. Plenty of shop talk in Dubai that Edinburgh is actually gone, full stop.

Great news. Thanks for that.

[ontimeexceptacars]

Interview with STC, and yes GLA was mentioned!

OTEA

https://aviationweek.com/podcasts/windo ... -tim-clark

[jetblue497]

Interview with STC, and yes GLA was mentioned!

OTEA

https://aviationweek.com/podcasts/windo ... -tim-clark

His comment about the Trident struggling in GLA is a wee bit misleading because:
a) At that time GLA had a significantly shorter runway
b) The Trident was called the "groundhog" for a reason