Originally Posted by
TomYoung
I would expect preference to be given to reaching daily frequency before starting new services elsewhere. When the do consider starting new services I wonder if they would find a triangle HKG-EDI-DUB-HKG attractive, especially if they could find a way to issue the EDI-HKG-EDI tickets with a transfer in DUB and reduce UK travel tax from long haul to short haul. Elsewhere I would look to a return of DVO, there being so much fresh produce to be shipped out of there in addition to overseas workers and seamen who will connect to long haul flights and incoming tourists.
Are you suggesting Cathay offer a fifth freedom EDI-DUB flight? I don't think they have the right. If they reintroduced DUB you could just do it with Aer Lingus being part of OW.
I would love for them to come somewhere further north than Manchester for a direct though since the second-tier UK airports already have good connecting options. From Newcastle for example you can connect via other airlines to HKG in not only London but Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Dubai. However, flying from Edinburgh would be an attractive alternative if direct.