Edinburgh

[GeorgeNTravels]

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

Over five hours on the the ground in EDI, going to take up a valuable stand that could be used by multiple other flights during that time.

[Bearsden]

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

Over five hours on the the ground in EDI, going to take up a valuable stand that could be used by multiple other flights during that time.

Tow to remote parking?

[GeorgeNTravels]

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

Over five hours on the the ground in EDI, going to take up a valuable stand that could be used by multiple other flights during that time.

Tow to remote parking?

Possibly, I was thinking about the last time and how they kept it at the gate but remembered that it also went to and from Dublin

[atuk]

Stands 4,14,15,16 and18all suitable for a 787. Plus remote stands available at 103/106 or the new 300 stands.

I suspect the Mon /Fri rotations use stands complimenting VS Wed/Sat plus WS Mon/Thu/Sat.

More pertinent is how all these pax fit into check in and security as well as gate space.

[Planeenthusiast]

Hainan using an A333. Bookable now. I believe stand 11 can also accommodate an A333.

[Clive]

I’m sure EDI ops will manage and that it’s not our problem.

[Bearsden]

Drone activity tonight

Holding with diversions to GLA & PIK

[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

Over five hours on the the ground in EDI, going to take up a valuable stand that could be used by multiple other flights during that time.

Maybe GLA can bid to get it parked here seeing as our stands and pretty much always empty at that time of day

[Planeenthusiast]

United updating aircraft on Edinburgh - Washington route. B764 now operating on Saturday and Sunday for all of July. Replacing 752.

[Planeenthusiast]

Passenger numbers for March 2023

Total - 1,009,599

The long haul routes look to have performed strongly again. Qatar with a load factor of around 95% just under 20,000 pax carried. JFK and EWR routes have bounced back strongly compared to a dip in February. EWR - 95% and JFK - 93%. TK also had a strong month. Just under 9,000 pax or 90%

All this before an expected bumper summer season.