Edinburgh

[Bearsden]

Despite EDI boasting its busiest-ever summer reality hit home this afternoon as flights had to be held over the borders for up to 20 mins each due to congestion on the ground. easyJet appeared to be the worst affected with EI and FR also being impacted.

Before some come and spout the corporate line from EDI management I took my information from passengers who were flying in this afternoon and were impacted by it.

Per ATC comms, there was an issue with radar capacity / spacing compounded by per FR24 five executive jets arriving over TARTN within a few minutes of each other

[billyg6]

US Transatlantic at GLA will be no more if this goes ahead.

It's still years away , if it happens at all. Other airports , both in Scotland and the Northern half of England, will have something to say about it , and delaying tactics will be inevitable. Dewar says he expects the "plans in place in 2 years" , he'll be lucky imo !

[Paris]

US Transatlantic at GLA will be no more if this goes ahead.

It's still years away , if it happens at all. Other airports , both in Scotland and the Northern half of England, will have something to say about it , and delaying tactics will be inevitable. Dewar says he expects the "plans in place in 2 years" , he'll be lucky imo !

Lucky or not..!!! He’s at least putting his business out there & working on it … Silence the only policy this side of the country. If as EDI are obviously working on it & it does come to fruition in a year, two years or ten? What a coup and what a way to mop up.

[buddyboy]

Is it really viable on one year round transatlantic flight? Dublin as the obvious comparison has stacks of year round service. EDI has impressive summer service but not much otherwise. Surely it'll be majorly expensive for little return year round.

[Bearsden]

US Transatlantic at GLA will be no more if this goes ahead.

It's still years away , if it happens at all. Other airports , both in Scotland and the Northern half of England, will have something to say about it , and delaying tactics will be inevitable. Dewar says he expects the "plans in place in 2 years" , he'll be lucky imo !

Lucky or not..!!! He’s at least putting his business out there & working on it … Silence the only policy this side of the country. If as EDI are obviously working on it & it does come to fruition in a year, two years or ten? What a coup and what a way to mop up.

So his "plans in place in 2 years" is a commercial message to basically say to both existing and new entrant airlines 'forget the other airports'

[Clive]

Imagine if airports had customs pre-clearance facilities for India, Nepal, Portugal, Tanzania, etc - wonder what makes the USA so special (or in fact difficult) that it needs to have border guards at the other end of flights?

[viscount]

Lucky or not..!!! He’s at least putting his business out there & working on it … Silence the only policy this side of the country. If as EDI are obviously working on it & it does come to fruition in a year, two years or ten? What a coup and what a way to mop up.
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So his "plans in place in 2 years" is a commercial message to basically say to both existing and new entrant airlines 'forget the other airports'
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He has the space if he decided to convert international 1 for all USA flights, and keep the new international 2 for all others

[GKirk]

Hainan Airlines returning with flights to Beijing

[egpffqtv]

Hainan Airlines returning with flights to Beijing

https://twitter.com/seanm1997/status/16 ... 6338070528

NEW ROUTE

Hainan Airlines - Beijing Capital to Edinburgh. Summer seasonal flights start 26 June 2023

HU407 PEK 0240-0630 EDI (Mon & Fri)

HU408 EDI 1200-0510+1 PEK (Mon & Fri)

Season: 26 June - 6 October 2023

Previously served until 2019

[McG]

Imagine if airports had customs pre-clearance facilities for India, Nepal, Portugal, Tanzania, etc - wonder what makes the USA so special (or in fact difficult) that it needs to have border guards at the other end of flights?

The US CBP website has a section on the proposed expansion of pre-clearance. One section in particular is noteworthy:

“Airport partners must be willing to share costs related to operating and administrative expenses and provide facilities and equipment that meet CBP technical design standards.”

Basically it’s a way of getting other countries/airports to pay for US CBP.