Here are the rough loads for the inaugural flights today:

MAN-FAO

CE - 37/48
ET - 80/108



NCL-FAO

CE- 20/24
ET - 121/144


SOU-FAO

CE - 24/26
ET - 68/72


EDI-FAO

CE - 4/18
ET - 37/80

I believe today’s EDI-FAO and FAO-EDI were cancelled due to low passenger numbers.

EDI-FAO only had 6 passengers in CE and ET combined.

FAO-EDI had nobody booked on it at all.


Not a great sign for regional flights from EDI and nowhere near as successful as the MAN/NCL/SOU ones.

Also, BA are increasing LHR-Pristina to 3x weekly in July. Another focus on VFR I presume.

Not familiar with it, but does Scotland have a different procedure for Green list arrivals? Do passengers arriving from Portugal need to quarantine/self-isolate upon arriving from Portugal?

So there are no flights bookable to Genoa from London, and Gran Canaria has been 'relegated' to Gatters, and no longer has the weekend departures from T5 over the winter season - couple of things I've noticed in recent days in my searches.

I haven’t kept up with Scottish regulation, but when red list countries were first set up, any international arrival direct into Scotland required the mandatory 10 hotel enforced quarantine, even if the departure country was not on the red list.

No I don’t believe there are any self isolation requirements. I’m not too sure about the specifics of Scotland though.

LGW-GOA is suspended for S21 but is due to resume in November.

As for LPA, it was moved to Gatwick just before Covid struck, so unfortunately the winter LHR service had already been cut. Although I hazard a guess it’ll stay at LHR until at least S22.

Thanks! So I can probably book January 22 and expect it to be LHR (ACE too!)

There isn’t now. However Scotland was later announcing that they were aligning travel guidance with rest ok uo due Scottish parliament elections.

I don't think it is a school holiday this week in Scotland

I think SOU will do well for BA

Scotland has the same traffic light system as the rest of the UK.
Our government is advising against foreign travel through.

Was at EDI on Saturday and it was very quiet. Through security in less than 2 minutes.

Off topic: Lots of people being denied boarding on the LH flight due to the German ban on UK arrivals. Majority were connecting to a Schengen flight.

Happy to correct you on this, flights were cancelled because of crew rest due to hotel issues.

Pax were taken to the NCL service

That’s really good to know thanks and shows you can’t always trust the rumours you hear.