My Scotland (GLA-EDI) argument centres around the fact that US airlines are making good business out of these routes and more are being added (I’m told) in the next year or two. Why UK airlines such as BA, Bmi and even Virgin appear to cling to their traditional hubs whilst US airlines are regularly making money carrying UK citizens across the pond and back bemuses me somewhat to be honest.
It is true, however, that the US Carriers can offer UK Emanating pax more destinations, as virtually all of North/Central America can be reached with a single stopover at their hubs, which, as of themselves are pretty big tourist magnets, anyway (ie Chicago, New York).
The same can’t be said of UK carriers offering the same services to UK Emanating pax, as no UK carriers has a US domestic/Canadian/Central American network.
Nor can the reciprocal be offered, as no UK carrier has particularly big Hubs in the Regions, so they can’t offer one stop routes to elsewhere domestically, or to Europe for US-emanating pax (and quite whether or not eg Bristol/Glasgow would be of significant interest to US based tourists is probably debatable).
Plus, as was rightly pointed out, the MAN-JFK flight is operated by BACX, rather than BA mainline, anyway, which further complicates things as far as the scheduling of G-BNWH.
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