Glasgow International to London City

Tried and failed on more than one occasion I believe. Hence I can’t see who would want to operate it at this time.

Does anyone share the same opinion as me, that the first round provided the best entertainment..?

No doubt! Italy Germany was the only game from the knock out stages that actually stands out as being a good one, and even then it was 0-0 until the last couple of mins of extra time.
There was plenty of goals in the group stages, a lot of them crackers, it all dried up in the knock out stages with most teams playing defensively, which is why it is a shame Brazil never got going.

Some overdue routes from Edinburgh:

EDI-MUC (LH or BD) – BD supposedly still hold slots for this.
EDI-OSL (SAS Braathens?)
EDI-ZRH (Swiss?) – high time this one came back.
EDI-MXP (Ideally Alitalia, but perhaps a future route for EZY)
EDI-MAD (IB or BA Connect – a glaring gap in EDI’s route network)

Could add a year round scheduled EDI-YYZ at more than 1x weekly- certainly during the summer- to that list too.

BA Connect already serve this route, although through a stop-over at BHX, whether this involves a change of aircraft I don’t know?

Yeah but it’s just not good enough, especially when there is so much inbound Spanish charter traffic. 😉 Although it would really have to be IB who operated this route to make it worthwhile.

IB did hold slots for this route daily to start this summer but that never materialised so not sure what happened there.

Well GSM have sprung a few surprises on us in the past, but this definitely takes the biscuit!! Next summer is going to be massive for them, and I’d expected plenty more big surprises from them between now and then!

Just reading that press release though, if it’s right, 22 biz class seats on a 189 seater B752. Sounds like eco is going to be a bit cramped… Although I suppose 30″ seat pitch would be in line with what they are offering on GLA-SFB?

Talk about ambitious! Go GSM!

Looks like one at BHX will be doing ALC for winter and presumably some of the other longer routes.

Flybe British European – BE 1637
Depart: Birmingham International Airport
Terminal: Terminal 1
Departure Time: 07:15, Monday, 6 November 2006
Arrive: Alicante
Terminal:
Arrival Time: 10:55, Monday, 6 November 2006
Stops: Non-Stop
Travel Time: 2hrs 40mins
Aircraft: E95 (Embraer 195)
Classes offered: First Business Economy

Some nice angles there, Tom!