More international flights from Edinburgh
Published: 02/03/2006 - Filed under: News »
Scottish travellers are set to benefit from new direct links from Edinburgh to the US, Scandinavia and Central Europe this summer.
The most significant new service will be Delta's non-stop link to Atlanta, Georgia which gets under way on June 6. The US carrier will operate a daily service with a B767-300. Flight DL 97 will depart Edinburgh at 13.45 arriving in Atlanta at 17.40. Inbound flight DL96 will leave Atlanta at 20.35 to reach Edinburgh the next morning at 09.45.
Delta's big selling point is the huge range of connections available at Atlanta. It will provide Scottish travellers with onward flights to some 200 US destinations (especially southern states like Florida, Texas plus Phoenix and California to the west) plus other links to Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.
Starting yesterday (March 1) Danish budget carrier Sterling started a useful service to Copenhagen. For most of March, flights will operate three times a week but from March 27 the service will be stepped up to a six flights a week service. Until now Bmi has been the sole carrier on this route and fares have been costly. When Business Traveller checked the cost of a two day midweek trip between March 7 and March 9 the cheapest Bmi fare was £363. Sterling pledges to undercut these rates.
Sterling will launch another new route. This time it will be a link from Edinburgh to Helsinki which will start on March 27.
Finnair currently routes passengers to Helsinki via Manchester or Heathrow (using BA for the domestic sector) but from April 12 it will begin flying twice weekly non-stop. And on one or both days there are onward connections available to Asia and, in particular, Guangzhou (Canton), Beijing, Shanghai, Osaka, and Bangkok.
From March 27, Polish budget carrier Centralwings begins a three flights a week service to both Gdansk and Katowice. The airline already serves Warsaw from Edinburgh.
Finally on April 13, the Slovakian carrier Skyeurope inaugurates a three times a week link to Krakow in southern Poland.
In other news, there are two new business routes soon to get under way from rival Glasgow. Easyjet says it will begin flying to Berlin Schonefeld from Glasgow's main airport on May 3. Meanwhile from Prestwick (30 miles southwest of Glasgow) the Dutch budget carrier Transavia will begin flying to Amsterdam on March 26.
For more information go to: www.delta.com, www.sterling.dk,www.centralwings.com, www.skyeurope.com,www.easyjet.com, www.transavia.com, http://www.finnair.com/
Report by Alex McWhirter
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