Just saw this on a.net, who knows whether it is accurate or not.

Air Scotland do it to position the aircraft..they don’t carry passengers between the two airports!!!

I do believe you are incorrect. Have a look at the schedules, same flight numbers for EDI and GLA flights, same arrival times at their final destinations.
That’s winter, they probably do the same for summer flights too. I don’t suppose having just the one aircraft helps much.

http://www.air-scotland.com/otherinfo/flight_info.asp

Two takeoffs for one service do not make economic sense when the two cities in question are so close together with such good land transport links.

I agree with you there, it’s only loonies like Air Scotland who think that makes sense. :p

My mistake, it was 1am;). I meant to say, the EAL 732s are the only ones still operating commercial service on the UK register as far as i’m aware,

Sam:D

or 11pm? :p Oh, I’m sorry. 😉

It’s not THAT obvious! The economics still don’t look right.

Why not just start the additional service at GLA and let the punters travel?

Hiring a couple of coaches on a contract basis would surely be cheaper per diem than paying for the fuel consumed in the takeoff from EDI – bearing in mind the amount of fuel it actually takes to accelerate a 757 or 767 along a runway until it reaches take-off speed and then to sustain it in level flight.

Or is aviation fuel free at EDI? 😀

My, my aren’t you lucky that Joe is away in Australia! 😉 You’d have just opened a can of worms there. Why don’t they ‘just start’ the additional service at EDI?! Is the obvious question.

Excellent pics, the last one is so sharp! 😎

Ryanair carry almost 20,000,000 passengers a year.Despite turbulent market conditons they are geeting stronger recording record passenger numbers and profits.99% of flights last month arrived on time and they are on average 50% cheaper than easyjet.
I think they may be doing somthing right.

It’s bribary! Who can refuse a 1p flight!? 😉 So many flights arrive on time because they give themselves so much leeway(sp?) in the scheduling, even when they operate from airports where, on the whole, any sort of congestion is non existant.