Edinburgh: New Route Development & Rumours

[Planemad134]

Even more news, I can barely keep up! As EasyJet schedule official A321neo flights on 1x weekly Bristol from 29th March and 2x weekly Milan Malpensa from 30th April. Also Norwegian will increase Oslo from 7x to 9x weekly from April 2020. And finally Flybe add 3x daily EDI-SEN from 15th June 2020, great news! Thanks to @SeanM1997 for the info!
Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1194277094743826432

 

[Jerry]

That should go someway to replacing the lost capacity from the Ryanair to Stansted route!

 

[Planemad134]

Aegean will Increase EDI-ATH from 2x to 3x weekly eff 24th June 2020. More growth every day now!

 

[Planemad134]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask does anyone have the EDI S20 Initial Coordination Report? The reason I ask is so I can use it for personal research to help develop a better understanding of what is in store for next year. So if you do have it please feel free to share here or Pm me. Thanks in advance.

 

[Jerry]

With Juneyao launching Manchester and now Dublin from Shanghai I wonder what the chances are of them launching Edinburgh?

 

[Llandudno]

The next route is PVG-HEL-KEF which will fill all 7 weekly flights from HEL so I'd say unlikely.

 

[Jerry]

The next route is PVG-HEL-KEF which will fill all 7 weekly flights from HEL so I'd say unlikely.

I didn't know that. That's a shame for Edinburgh.

 

[Coathanger16]

Interesting that Juneyao Airlines are launching these new routes via Helsinki rather than direct.

Are they just doing that because they don't think there is the demand for direct flights yet, or is there some restriction for them flying China to UK/Dublin. The 787 certainly has the range for it.

 

[mullion]

Might be as short of aircraft at present but probably testing the market

 

[Jerry]

Interesting that Juneyao Airlines are launching these new routes via Helsinki rather than direct.

Are they just doing that because they don't think there is the demand for direct flights yet, or is there some restriction for them flying China to UK/Dublin. The 787 certainly has the range for it.

Maybe they don't have the direct rights so have to go via Helsinki? I also believe that they have a codeshare agreement with Finnair.

 

[mullion]

They do on Manchester but there are still 4 aircraft to deliver yet so that is probably the reason

 

[Planemad134]

Tui will add Sharm El Sheikh 1x weekly from November 2nd 2020. Great news and is the first African route in a while.

 

[Jerry]

Tui will add Sharm El Sheikh 1x weekly from November 2nd 2020. Great news and is the first African route in a while.

I'm surprised EDI doesn't have Tunisia?

 

[Planemad134]

I must say that Nouvelair Tunisie is looking at Enfidha flights, but I'm not sure yet if they will start the route.

 

[ROC10]

I'm surprised EDI doesn't have Tunisia?

Thomson used to fly to Enfidha but of course stopped after the attack and haven’t (yet) restarted it. They do fly there from GLA though.

 

[Jerry]

Easyjet are to launch Gibraltar and Catania from Edinburgh.

 

[Planemad134]

Yep EDI-CTA and EDI-GIB both 2x weekly starting 29th and 31st March respectively. Great news!

 

[Planemad134]

Loganair will add 2 new routes from Edinburgh:

Esbjerg- 3x weekly eff 7th May 2020
Hannover- 5x weekly eff 17th April 2020

Great news to see Loganair increase their EDI base, and It seems to be catching up with GLA!

 

[Planemad134]

And to add to the above Qatar will increase the EDI-DOH route from 10x to 14x weekly next summer! What a day and S20 looking to be record breaking!

Link: https://www.qatarairways.com/en/pre...ber/NewDestFreq.html?activeTag=Press-releases

 

[Jerry]

That's really good news!