Edinburgh

[Bearsden]

Maybe Mr Dewar has got to enforce a reduction in airline slots . . . ah, I forgot, that will hit his bottom line!!

But what about corporate responsibility? . . . ah, not my problem, it's all the airlines & their handling agents fault!!

The situation described of bags lying out in the open (unguarded?) beggars belief

A random sample of a few departures tonight shows vast majority are between 2 and 3 hours on the ground at EDI

I was looking at edi flights today , you are correct , most flights, even a few FR on ground for a lengthy time period .. in regards of bags lying outside , been told from pal who works in border force at EDI that wouldn't happen and has not happened.. They have rented a warehouse near edi to store luggage .

Looks like bags outside to me!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62227219

[Ekally1]

Maybe Mr Dewar has got to enforce a reduction in airline slots . . . ah, I forgot, that will hit his bottom line!!

But what about corporate responsibility? . . . ah, not my problem, it's all the airlines & their handling agents fault!!

The situation described of bags lying out in the open (unguarded?) beggars belief

A random sample of a few departures tonight shows vast majority are between 2 and 3 hours on the ground at EDI

I was looking at edi flights today , you are correct , most flights, even a few FR on ground for a lengthy time period .. in regards of bags lying outside , been told from pal who works in border force at EDI that wouldn't happen and has not happened.. They have rented a warehouse near edi to store luggage .

Looks like bags outside to me!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62227219

Showed that to border force guy , that was baggage of golfing group getting ready to go ... don't believe was media wants you too

[Ken1]

I drove into the servisair car park Sunday morning, there were at least 40 bags outside in car park going no where and not guarded. You’re Border Control mate has obviously not been there to see it first hand.

More significantly, Ryanair are showing a lot of cancellations,for tomorrow, is this due to handling problems?

[Bearsden]

I was looking at edi flights today , you are correct , most flights, even a few FR on ground for a lengthy time period .. in regards of bags lying outside , been told from pal who works in border force at EDI that wouldn't happen and has not happened.. They have rented a warehouse near edi to store luggage .

Looks like bags outside to me!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62227219

Showed that to border force guy , that was baggage of golfing group getting ready to go ... don't believe was media wants you too

In this case I do believe the media

That's no golfing group!

Where are the clubs?

I firmly suspect EDI top management are 'cracking down' on any insider stories to try to minimise the very bad press the airport is getting

[Clive]

Looks like bags outside to me!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62227219

Showed that to border force guy , that was baggage of golfing group getting ready to go ... don't believe was media wants you too

In this case I do believe the media

That's no golfing group!

Where are the clubs?

I firmly suspect EDI top management are 'cracking down' on any insider stories to try to minimise the very bad press the airport is getting

And you can see the EDI baggage label from the origin airport.

Suffice to say it’s a complete shambles. Dewar isn’t so keen to give his bleeding heart/hard done to vox pops to the media now.

Really the smaller an airport is, the more simple and less stressful for the pax who are using the facility for their travel needs IMO.

[hads]

Very true.
Perhaps we should encourage double daily to Barra rather than a Madrid connection.

[Clive]

Very true.
Perhaps we should encourage double daily to Barra rather than a Madrid connection.

Barra must be a breeze.

Literally

[atuk]

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Very true.
Perhaps we should encourage double daily to Barra rather than a Madrid connection.

Barra must be a breeze.

Literally
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Just a pity it doesn’t handke 767s,787s, 330s, 350s!

[egpffqtv]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/s ... h-airport/

The Sun’s take on baggage issues at EDI

[VS71]

We flew out on the 2nd (You allow Edi trip reports Clive? ) and it was pretty chaotic. The baggage belt failed, so it was moving one bag per time, for four or five bags, then stopped for five / ten minutes, and repeat.

EDI staff came through, and stopped check-in for 50 minutes to clear a backlog and bring a load of Ryanair folk through. BA staff ignored them and kept putting their passengers through.

We left two hours late, partly as cleaners were 40 mins late coming to the plane. Partly as 1hr 30 after we should have left 100 bags got delivered.

Returning Saturday morning, expecting the worst, we were pretty lucky. There were though a number of bags just going round and round on our belt, and a good number dumped off to the side.

A Qatar flight landed as we were taxiing, and was still there when we were back at the Holiday Inn picking up the car!

This past week, a friends parents were heading to Washington and left two hours late due to Menzies taking that long to get bags loaded.