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I see that a Barrhead Travel article in Travel Weekly have again stated that the lack of flights from Glasgow to the USA, only one Emirates flight and only one flight to Gatwick is of concern to them. They know their market well but who is listening to them? surely Emirates, Virgin, BA and others must be with AGS hopefully leading the pack.

I guess it was this article?

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/tour-op ... -expansion

Airlift from Edinburgh and Glasgow has improved in the past year, according to Dobson, but US-bound services from Glasgow are still viewed as insufficient.

“Glasgow doesn’t have enough airlift to the US. Emirates used to have two daily flights, but now it has one,” she said.

Domestic flights can also prove “difficult”, she added, giving the example of Glasgow still only having one flight a day to Gatwick.

It's just another symptom of AGS incompetence.

Here we have a big travel industry voice saying that they're experiencing such demand that there's a lack of capacity at GLA - not just on one route, but seemingly on many, including even some domestics. Yet AGS are so incompetent that they can't take advantage of this, can't even persuade EK - a successful incumbent who's flights are running effectively full much of the time - to increase frequency/capacity, never mind persuade new airlines to start new routes.

To be fair BA pulled all domestics from LGW, we were really lucky to retain the W from LHR.

The lack of growth outside of this is fair game though...

Surprised Barrhead Travel don’t know that easyJet also serve the LGW-GLA route and that they have a slightly more robust schedule.

Clive wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 8:31 pm Surprised Barrhead Travel don’t know that easyJet also serve the LGW-GLA route and that they have a slightly more robust schedule.

I think they are referencing BA to BA long-haul connections at Gatwick, rather than point to point traffic.

Would this be the same Barrhead travel that for years have been advising customers to fly from EDI?

They would always offer better deals from EDI than GLA if flights / packages to same destination.

Bit hypocritical of them saying lack of services from GLA when they have helped funnel the demand east.