Possible New Route GLA to London City (EGLC)

Looks like Scot Airways are thinking of having another crack at the route ?

Source: The Herald

http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/39067.html

Yes but us “neds” don’t mind a stop off, gives us a chance to nick some wallets. 😀

ROTFL!!!!!!!!

Not when your clients are business men who can’t be doing with stop offs

Yes but us “neds” don’t mind a stop off, gives us a chance to nick some wallets. 😀

What about a EDI – GLA – LCY service would that be more feasable than just GLA – LCY or even EDI – LCY?

Not when your passengers are business men who can’t be doing with stop offs and would rather get there quickly and hassle free.

What about a EDI – GLA – LCY service would that be more feasable than just GLA – LCY or even EDI – LCY?

That would be the sensible approach, possibly starting at GLA so as not to upset the suits. 😀

What about a EDI – GLA – LCY service would that be more feasable than just GLA – LCY or even EDI – LCY?

BA done GLA-LCY 3daily before and it had good pax numbers just they got a better offer to move the flights. 1 daily would not work as you said it would be a service for biz pax.

I think one of the BIG advantages of having VLM operating the service, is that they have a good presence down in the London area. LPL and MAN have been terrific successes, which is why I cant understand why Leeds, a big business centre cant be.

Many of the things that Sandy says about Glasgow are also true of Liverpool in relation to Manchester (again – cities, not airports) and yet the VLM LPL-LCY operation appears to be thriving when all previous attempts to connect Liverpool and London by air have fallen by the wayside.

What do VLM know that other companies don’t?

interesting. Maybe its to do with spreading the cost out with the continuing flight home to brussells?

With all due respect, thats flying in the face of what everyone else is saying here and whats happened in the past.
Glasgow, is not the business gateway Edinburgh is. ( I mean the cities now, not the airports). LCY is predominantly a business airport. On top of that Edinburgh is a large financial center. Something Glasgow lacks.

Based on the premise that 95% of all flights in and out of LCY are business related, I see no scope for more than 1 GLA-LCY flight a day perhaps…. if at all.

Agreed, this is a fine example of why certain routes work better out of EDI and not Glasgow (and vice versa).

Edinburgh is one of the major UK financial centres outside of London, and hosts the HQ’s of many large corporate/banking institutions.

Whilst Glasgow can also claim to be in this market, in a much lessor respect. It’s fair to say that the kind of client base that wouldn’t think twice about the fares and budgets required to support a Scotland to London City service are all firmly Edinburgh based during their working week.

Many of the things that Sandy says about Glasgow are also true of Liverpool in relation to Manchester (again – cities, not airports) and yet the VLM LPL-LCY operation appears to be thriving when all previous attempts to connect Liverpool and London by air have fallen by the wayside.

What do VLM know that other companies don’t?

With all due respect, thats flying in the face of what everyone else is saying here and whats happened in the past.
Glasgow, is not the business gateway Edinburgh is. ( I mean the cities now, not the airports). LCY is predominantly a business airport. On top of that Edinburgh is a large financial center. Something Glasgow lacks.

Based on the premise that 95% of all flights in and out of LCY are business related, I see no scope for more than 1 GLA-LCY flight a day perhaps…. if at all.

I think there is demand for a 3daily GLA-LCY service just need the right amound of advertising.

I know…… Geez..

Im not saying that Sandy, but you need good advertising.

The demand must have been there for them to start it after running the survey, obviously not enough of them found out it happened.

No no, you missed my point. Forget that route you spoke about for a moment.
I was speaking in general terms.

If you want to operate any kind of route you need good advertisement, as you correctly identified, AND also good demand.
The route won’t work without one of them.

Im not saying that Sandy, but you need good advertising.

The demand must have been there for them to start it after running the survey, obviously not enough of them found out it happened.

Yep, the same survey was done for the LBA-LCY which had also been operated before, and once again failed.

The amount of advertising for this route was pathetic, you need good advertising, thats why the Air Southwest LBA-BRS-NQY, has been such a terrific success thus far.

Well to be fair, if the demand isn’t there, even the best advertisement won’t help 😉

Only problem being LoCo is nigh on impossible from LCY due to the exorbitant costs charged by the airport.

Which is exactly why the previous attempts have failed. Good luck to the new one though.

Yep, the same survey was done for the LBA-LCY which had also been operated before, and once again failed.

The amount of advertising for this route was pathetic, you need good advertising, thats why the Air Southwest LBA-BRS-NQY, has been such a terrific success thus far.

Both BA and Scot Airways (Suckling) have attempted to run the route from GLA. I guess it’s more suited to the EDI market, it being a corporate route.

It would need to to run as a lo-co operation to be a success from GLA in my opinion. Purely because of the types of market and the alternatives to London already available from Glasgow.

Only problem being LoCo is nigh on impossible from LCY due to the exorbitant costs charged by the airport.