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  • December 26, 2006 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Norwegian to EDI? #585664
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    Indeed, it was officially announced last week. Excellent news too.

    December 22, 2006 at 12:25 pm in reply to: BA cancels all Heathrow domestic flights today! #587033
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    Any ideas which airports in the UK have been visted by a BA long haul aircraft in the last 2 days?

    1 B772 did LGW-GLA last night, there were 2 B772s used on LGW-EDI, one evening flight and another one later on, infact the later one might even have been the nightstopper. Not if there are any more planned to be used today?

    December 21, 2006 at 3:16 pm in reply to: BA cancels all Heathrow domestic flights today! #587230
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    In an attempt to clear some of the backlog presumably BA are putting a B772 on one of the LGW-EDI flights this evening. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happening again to MAN/EDI/GLA over the next few days.

    December 18, 2006 at 11:08 pm in reply to: "easyJet announces MASSIVE expansion from Edinburgh" #588624
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    Unnecessarily defensive…?

    Hardly, I’ve given my reasons for why I thought EDI had been crying out for a MAD route. So what’s your problem? Disappointed EZY chose to launch these routes from EDI no doubt.:rolleyes:

    December 18, 2006 at 9:19 pm in reply to: "easyJet announces MASSIVE expansion from Edinburgh" #588639
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    I think its a spotter thing….:rolleyes:

    Problem?

    December 18, 2006 at 8:06 pm in reply to: "easyJet announces MASSIVE expansion from Edinburgh" #588762
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    How exactly does one base the “crying out” for a route?

    There’s a large number of inbound tourists that use charters in the summer, that combined with what I imagine to be a healthy outbound market with biz and leisure pax means in my eyes that MAD is one destination EDI very much needed.
    For example, more than 4000 pax travelled between the 2 cities in July going by CAA stats and that’s only with infrequent charters and no non-stop scheduled service!

    December 18, 2006 at 7:59 pm in reply to: "easyJet announces MASSIVE expansion from Edinburgh" #588768
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    Odd that the summer only IB flights EDI-MAD were not extended to year round and downgraded to a regional jet and then dropped. Cant see IB or Click entertaining it now.

    They were only ever charters for inbound Spanish tourists, done by a variety of airlines over the years, including Iberia/Air Nostrum.
    However Iberia did have slots for a daily scheduled service for the summer just past but they chose not to use them, for whatever reason. So good on EZY for stepping in when IB chose not to.
    Clickair appear to have an interest in operating BCN-EDI at some point in the future, but not MAD I don’t think they operate from MAD nor will they ever?

    December 18, 2006 at 7:09 pm in reply to: "easyJet announces MASSIVE expansion from Edinburgh" #588779
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    Excellent news! 😀

    The flight to Madrid is a risky move. All previous attempts were not really successfull for two main reasons. Not enough business people, not enough tourists out of peak season. In any case, good luck for the route.

    Wouldn’t call it a risk at all, EDI-MAD has been crying out for a non-stop service for a while now.
    Jet2 could be in trouble now on EDI-BGY now though, before it’s even started…

    November 29, 2006 at 6:48 pm in reply to: EZY start to release summer timetable #595087
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    LGW is to be on sale by the 9th of December apparently.

    November 28, 2006 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Big FlyBe expansion #595272
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    Great to see them breaking into Europe from EDI at last! It’s not much but it’s a start.

    November 27, 2006 at 9:35 pm in reply to: EZY start to release summer timetable #595520
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    Just to add, it was only UK regional base’s flights that were released today, all other bases will be released over the next couple of weeks.

    November 22, 2006 at 2:28 pm in reply to: Jet2 saves NCL-LGW #596902
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    Where are the slots at LGW coming from? Dropping the MAN route in favour? I thought there were virtually no slots left at LGW at the sort of times Jet2 are going to be wanting for this route?

    November 17, 2006 at 5:18 pm in reply to: easyJet announce EDI-MUC… #598467
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    About time too BD seemed to always be going on about this route and finally it is made official by a different airline.

    Yes it was BD who first announced it last year before dropping it before it had even started because they couldn’t get the slots they wanted in MUC. BD again and Adria have both applied for slots for this route with EZY but it seems that EZY were the only airline to get close to the slots they wanted, the other 2 airlines were looking for 2x daily.

    November 13, 2006 at 2:11 am in reply to: General Discussion #342131
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    Borat rules ! 🙂

    Agreed. 😀

    November 13, 2006 at 2:11 am in reply to: Borat!! love him or hate him #1942302
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    Borat rules ! 🙂

    Agreed. 😀

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