I frequently travelled on Citylink AIR in its early days when passenger loads were mainly less than 10 and wrongly questioned its long term viabilityFlyGLA wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:06 am I hope Team GLA are taking these figures to the airlines to show where Scotland's flying population and actually flying to and from, as it's not Edinburgh. We just need one airline to make the switch and provide the flights to start clawing back our rightful market share.
We have already had Wizz Air switch (although only two, relatively low volume, twice weekly routes) and then pull one of the routes due to the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G issues which shows the route was at the lower end of the Bucharest base's financial returns BUT EDI's primary based 'low cost' carrier continues to serve Bucharest which is what its management wants
As reported by Douglas Fraser 'By 2030, Edinburgh's management is planning for annual passenger numbers to grow to 20 million.' . . . IMHO it is naive to think that all of this growth is marginal to Scotland - it will include volume 'won' from competitors whether GLA, NEW or MAN
From November, DXB & LDY, what next . . . Barra?