It’s good news for folk who don’t want to mess around with flying / driving / getting the train down south.

Tonight Aberdeen also gained approval for 24 hour operation – which they say will add 4 flights per day during summer.

Good day for Scottish aviation – more business = more flights = more pilot positions. Ye ha.

DME

Another great day all round for Scottish aviation. 🙂

LOL
It is naive to think that BAA are alone in what they do. Unlike at Charleroi, privately run airports can support air services in any way that they like. All airports have published charges, but very few of them charge these, in actual fact many airports do not hgave two airlines paying the same fees.

What happens with the RDFs is that they can only match the discounts offered by the airports, and cannot exceed them, this is done on the understanding that most airport operators will give some level of discount.

There are some under the misguided impression that only GLA has benefitted from BAA’s `discounts` in Scotland. Quite clearly this isn’t the case and is a myth that should that should be banished once and for all.

EK had intended to fly from GLA – LONG before any RDF’s – BAA’s or the SE.

Clearly they made a correct choice and people from all over Central Scotland are using the service despite the usual doom-merchants predictions.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5036151.html

Not quite a massive expansion but extremely welcome and confirmation that EK made the correct choice in opting to fly direct from Scotland. Flying direct and missing out any UK or European connections must be welcomed by all in central Scotland and the pax figures are a massive endorsement of this.