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Adding capacity to the central Scotland market in the form of three / four-weekly EDI-KEF 7M8 service from September.

G-WATP wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 1:23 pm Adding capacity to the central Scotland market in the form of three / four-weekly EDI-KEF 7M8 service from September.

https://x.com/seanm1997/status/19229940 ... lOa6GAi2Ew

NEW ROUTE

Icelandair - Reykjavík to Edinburgh. Flights start 12 September 2025

FI434 KEF 1000-1320 EDI (Tue, Fri & Sun)

FI435 EDI 1415-1550 KEF (Tue, Fri & Sun)

Flights increase to 4x weekly from 4 November 2025

It’ll all end in tears I tell ya!

Another GLA only carrier goes East. We've seen this movie before. We can't seem to manage to get anything to come the other way.....

buddyboy wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 5:02 pm Another GLA only carrier goes East. We've seen this movie before. We can't seem to manage to get anything to come the other way.....

Except for Glasgow bound passengers who need to use EDI and the EDI airport busses

What's next? Airports Transat? Honestly thought Icelandair would be loyal to GLA after how the airport helped them during the volcanic ash period etc. Oh well. Good start for the new management...new faces, same old story

egpffqtv wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 1:54 pm

G-WATP wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 1:23 pm Adding capacity to the central Scotland market in the form of three / four-weekly EDI-KEF 7M8 service from September.

https://x.com/seanm1997/status/19229940 ... lOa6GAi2Ew

NEW ROUTE

Icelandair - Reykjavík to Edinburgh. Flights start 12 September 2025

FI434 KEF 1000-1320 EDI (Tue, Fri & Sun)

FI435 EDI 1415-1550 KEF (Tue, Fri & Sun)

Flights increase to 4x weekly from 4 November 2025

It’ll all end in tears I tell ya!

Yeah, but for who? EZY operate this route I know, don't know/care about the EZY frequency but this ain't good news for GLA at all. Wtf is going on at the airport? Is anyone interested in aircraft routes at all? Prices will tumble at EDI and still it will all be about yields. You really couldn't make this crap up.

GKirk wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 6:24 pm What's next? Airports Transat? Honestly thought Icelandair would be loyal to GLA after how the airport helped them during the volcanic ash period etc. Oh well. Good start for the new management...new faces, same old story

There's no loyalty in any business now Kirky, aviation being no exception. It's pretty much a "Thanks, ta ra" at least in GLA's case. Ek is testament to that and now it seems FI are following on. I have suddenly developed a very uneasy feeling about the take over. A few busses, a burger joint or sandwich bar here and there, it's quite the depressing time, so far.

I have a bit more insight into this thanks to speaking to Icelandair at trade events.

EDI has been on the cards for at least the last 2 years, the exact quote to me was "a second Scottish airport is being considered"

History may well repeat itself, but Glasgow was just expanded in terms of frequency for this winter, and as it stands just now EDI has said their flights will operate September-April

AviAlliance has only been in 5 months, and is spending £350 million on expansion and improvements, you don't invest that money without commitment for airlines to provide capacity

The problem here is that when an airline is at GLA only and want/need to expand capacity and frequency, they tend to start an EDI service. When an airline is at EDI only and they want/need to expand, they add a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th!) daily service at EDI.

Iirc Gordon Dewar openly stated in a interview he tells airlines to do this and not start GLA services bacuse he claimed they can serve GLA by flying to EDI.

This is where GLA has been failing (and EDI succeeding) for many years. I'm willing to give the new owners a bit of time, but they need to reverse this.

Iain wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 8:19 pm The problem here is that when an airline is at GLA only and want/need to expand capacity and frequency, they tend to start an EDI service. When an airline is at EDI only and they want/need to expand, they add a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th!) daily service at EDI.

Iirc Gordon Dewar openly stated in a interview he tells airlines to do this and not start GLA services bacuse he claimed they can serve GLA by flying to EDI.

This is where GLA has been failing (and EDI succeeding) for many years. I'm willing to give the new owners a bit of time, but they need to reverse this.

The new owners must have realised (I hope!) that the competition were going for the jugular! . . . with the exception maybe of 100% of the higher volume outbound holiday sun market (although most are currently >50%), and the likes of Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, Paris and UK domestic routes

I wait to see a breakdown of where the £350m is going - you can see where the likes of Bristol are spending similar amounts