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xijiayu wrote:Cannot find 2023 Glasgow thread, so post it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65649756
I am wondering how difficult to relocate these passengers to other Icelandair flight out of London or Manchester, or even send a rescue aircraft? KEF is just two hour flight from GLA. These passengers have been kept waiting for 36 hours already and who knows when they will be able to fly to KEF.
xijiayu wrote:Cannot find 2023 Glasgow thread, so post it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65649756
I am wondering how difficult to relocate these passengers to other Icelandair flight out of London or Manchester, or even send a rescue aircraft? KEF is just two hour flight from GLA. These passengers have been kept waiting for 36 hours already and who knows when they will be able to fly to KEF.
JannEejit wrote:xijiayu wrote:Cannot find 2023 Glasgow thread, so post it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65649756
I am wondering how difficult to relocate these passengers to other Icelandair flight out of London or Manchester, or even send a rescue aircraft? KEF is just two hour flight from GLA. These passengers have been kept waiting for 36 hours already and who knows when they will be able to fly to KEF.
A rescue flight really ought to have been simple to organise. Especially as all the other UK services fly directly over or near to Glasgow, not to mention several European services. To read passenger comments like "We won't route through Glasgow again" is only playing into the hands of EDI bosses, when the problem was a tech aircraft and an airline that couldn't resolve the matter quickly. Oh well, Play begins its GLA operation in the next week or thereabouts.
GlobalRepublic wrote:Thoughts and prayers for those triggered by this news.
Mr Cliffe said of Glasgow: “I think it is a fabulous city and I hadn’t visited enough before I arrived. I think there are just huge opportunities to grow that and develop it still further.”
Referring to his ambitions to build routes, he said: “North American connections we will target coming back, European paired destinations we will target coming back.”
He flagged potential for new services to Germany, the north of Italy, and Spanish cities such as Madrid, focused on “real business and trade” rather than the leisure market.
Noting recent successes for the airport with package holiday operator TUI, which is basing an additional two planes at the airport from summer next year, and Jet2, Mr Cliffe added: “We serve the leisure market extremely well. I think what I am describing…is our connectivity to support economic development and growth right across the region.”
xijiayu wrote:EK28 to DXB is still on the ground today and has a new departure time of 8:45pm. Perhaps the original aircraft, A6-EEJ has some technical issue and EK are sending another aircraft, A6-EDU from LHR to GLA at the moment (originally scheduled to operated EK30 at 4:50pm) to operate EK28 tonight. In about an hour time, there will be two A380 at GLA.
I wonder what happened to the original passengers out of LHR to DXB on EK30?
Breathe wrote:There's an interview with the new CEO of AGS Airports regarding Glasgow Airport in The Heard. He's sounding quite bullish about new getting new routes.
Getting links to CDG and IST with Air France and Turkish and their vast network of routes and a scheduled link to USA you would hope be in the plans at the very least.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/business ... ng-weight/Mr Cliffe said of Glasgow: “I think it is a fabulous city and I hadn’t visited enough before I arrived. I think there are just huge opportunities to grow that and develop it still further.”
Referring to his ambitions to build routes, he said: “North American connections we will target coming back, European paired destinations we will target coming back.”
He flagged potential for new services to Germany, the north of Italy, and Spanish cities such as Madrid, focused on “real business and trade” rather than the leisure market.
Noting recent successes for the airport with package holiday operator TUI, which is basing an additional two planes at the airport from summer next year, and Jet2, Mr Cliffe added: “We serve the leisure market extremely well. I think what I am describing…is our connectivity to support economic development and growth right across the region.”
He highlighted the importance of “connectivity, so we get the kind of economic growth we are looking for”.
chunhimlai wrote:Will Scottish government build a new central Scotland airport to replace both GLA and EDI?
https://www.aerohabitat.eu/uploads/medi ... _Study.pdf
by738 wrote:QR- been to assess, likelihood near term 5/10, Turkish - in active discussions I understand, likelihood 8/10. New central airport… likelihood 0/10 - that ship has sailed (or not if Calmac debacle anything to go by). Its no longer in the hands of Scottish Gov which is perhaps no bad thing. Open skies period and BAA sell off era was time to do it.
xijiayu wrote:I wonder if EK have plan of adding 2nd daily to GLA (maybe from summer 2024)? I was on EK28 last Friday and EK27 yesterday. Both flights were 100% full on economy class. Two A380 to DXB next summer would be good.
Breathe wrote:Some potentially good news with Glasgow named as a Future Route in this Turkish Airlines presentation (page 11).
https://investor.turkishairlines.com/do ... entation(1).pdf
Breathe wrote:Some potentially good news with Glasgow named as a Future Route in this Turkish Airlines presentation (page 11).
https://investor.turkishairlines.com/do ... entation(1).pdf
sand26391 wrote:Breathe wrote:Some potentially good news with Glasgow named as a Future Route in this Turkish Airlines presentation (page 11).
https://investor.turkishairlines.com/do ... entation(1).pdf
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