I wish I could fly/have flown to/from GLA but.....

[bill]

Give the man a job AGS!

Yup. He's just written a better business plan in 10 minutes than AGS probably managed in years. I'd send that to them

[Clive]

Wizz Air OTP, GDN, WAW, KWI, PRG, BER, FCO, MAD - KWI seems left field and AFAIK, Wizz don't currently fly there. IIRC your sister lives there, so I guess purely selfish reasons for that one to appear on your list. Have a look at LTN's WizzAir destinations, then take your pick of those that could work here.

Sorry it’s meant to be Katowice, not Kuwait City!

My sister used to live in Bahrain but I did get to land in KWI on a KLM A330 on the way to visit her.

[atuk]

Bring back CPH along with extra DUB flights with EI mainline, not Emerald Airlines.

Add to that JetBlue, Eurowings and also Turkish and Pegasus.

[FlyGLA]

I know four people travelling to Knock – a destination that was previously served from Scotland’s largest city. Despite living just four miles away from Glasgow Airport, they’re now left with no choice but to travel across the country to the second city – a tourist town – to catch a flight. That's eight passenger journeys that would have departed from Glasgow Airport had the route still been available.

[FlyGLA]

A stag party of 6 just returned from a long weekend in Madrid. Another 12 passenger journeys from Glasgow bank-rolling flights from the east.

[FlyGLA]

A work colleague and their family have just returned from a long weekend in the Algarve, they live in Bishopton but flew from Glasgow East. That's another 8 passenger journeys subsidising the second city's airport.

[hads]

Yes. About 2 million of us do it regularly.But we know this.
We know the cause and we know the effect.
What no one knows is how its going to be resolved. The new owners are just in the door.
Give them 12 months or so. I think that's fair.
No point in throwing stones at them. They weren't responsible for current situ.
But they are for the remedy.

[Bearsden]

A work colleague and their family have just returned from a long weekend in the Algarve, they live in Bishopton but flew from Glasgow East. That's another 8 passenger journeys subsidising the second city's airport.

The key to any recovery of this traffic is understanding the drivers - flight timings? cost? airline preference? passenger knowledge of the options available from GLA/PIK/EDI?

A number of specific examples have appeared on this thread, some obviously because there is only one direct option from the three competing airports

[FlyGLA]

Indeed. The latest example, Faro, was cost-driven, their exact words were, 'It was less than half the price for us to fly from Edinburgh with Ryanair than from Glasgow.' They have a villa in the Algarve and this was their sixth visit in the past eight months. Only once have they flown from GLA. It's something we hear all too often. It's clear where the premium yields are in Scotland, you really do have to pay over the odds to fly from GLA.

Of course, the current state of affairs lies with AGS, and notably Derek Provan. I am very hopeful, and actually, very confident, that the new owners will change this. Glasgow is where the true demand for air travel lies in Scotland. Give airlines the right deals, and the natural order will be restored.

[Iain]

There's always going to be an interplay and one or the other will be cheaper at some time - but if EDI is cheaper 5 out of 6 times that seems like a trend. It's frustrating that we constantly hear claims about "higher yields" at EDI whilst simultaneously hearing stories about flights from EDI being consistently cheaper.

It would support the new CEO's suggestion that even holiday routes are underserved - and also shows how price sensitive pax from across Scotland could potentially be attracted to GLA with the right services/fares.