Edinburgh 'Scotland's airport of choice'
13.03.10
Edinburgh Airport has a brand new slogan: ‘Scotland's airport of choice’, the Scotsman reports. The battle for new routes between it and fellow BAA-owned hub Glasgow comes as a study by the newspaper reveals Edinburgh is powering ahead of Glasgow in international routes.
There was a turning of the tables in 2007, when Edinburgh soared past formerly pre-eminent Glasgow. It now carries a fifth more passengers - placing it almost two million a year in front. Edinburgh now has eighty international routes compared with 52 at Glasgow. All but one of these is in Europe or North Africa, in comparison with Glasgow's 39.
This means than even considering the 12 other European routes offered by Prestwick - which is nearly as far from Glasgow as Edinburgh airport - Edinburgh nonetheless eclipses both west coast airports combined. So, for example, there are just two Scandinavian routes from Glasgow compared with six from Edinburgh, some of which are served by a number of airlines.
Glasgow remains Scotland's main long-haul gateway, boasting more than a dozen transatlantic, Asian and Middle Eastern routes compared with Edinburgh's one link to New York. However, Edinburgh's appeal as a visitor destination offers airlines the opportunity to fill their planes with both outbound and inbound passengers.
Edinburgh Airport managing director Gordon Dewar said: ‘The idea of being 'Scotland's Airport of Choice' is aspirational. We're confident in our responsiveness to passengers, our service levels and in the high quality of Edinburgh itself, so we believe that it is an aspiration that can be a definite reality in the coming months.’
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