Edinburgh Airport to be sold

[hibs0666]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15367555

[RyeSloan]

Surprising that BAA have decided to sell Edinburgh and not Glasgow....still BAA have been far too slow in upgrading Edinburgh over the years, seemingly always completing a project just as volumes required another expansion. Maybe new owners might get their finger out a bit quicker and extend the airports capabilities as well as providing even more options on routes.

I bet they will try for a 2nd runway straight away which will have the green campaingers foaming at the mouth while the rest of the population hopes that they will finally get an airport that serves the world!!

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Direct flights to the - ahem - emerging economise please.
First up Sao Paulo/Rio with SP the biggest financial centre in south America and Brazil the 6th largest economy makes sense! Do it

[steakbake]

Direct flights to the - ahem - emerging economise please.
First up Sao Paulo/Rio with SP the biggest financial centre in south America and Brazil the 6th largest economy makes sense! Do it

Absolutely. They need to get on with that.

[Phil D. Rolls]

Surprising that BAA have decided to sell Edinburgh and not Glasgow....still BAA have been far too slow in upgrading Edinburgh over the years, seemingly always completing a project just as volumes required another expansion. Maybe new owners might get their finger out a bit quicker and extend the airports capabilities as well as providing even more options on routes.

I bet they will try for a 2nd runway straight away which will have the green campaingers foaming at the mouth while the rest of the population hopes that they will finally get an airport that serves the world!!

Yep, an airport that serves the world is high on my list of priorities right now.

[RyeSloan]

Yep, an airport that serves the world is high on my list of priorities right now.


Glad that it is as good connections to the world, especially the fast growing 'emerging' markets can do wonders for a country's economy otherwise you might find that they do business elsewhere and with other countries :agree:

Airports are also privately owned so any investment in them tends to be privately funded. Airport expansion therefore can have significant direct and indirect benefits to the area it serves without the need for public money or subsidy.

[Killiehibbie]

Glad that it is as good connections to the world, especially the fast growing 'emerging' markets can do wonders for a country's economy otherwise you might find that they do business elsewhere and with other countries :agree:

Airports are also privately owned so any investment in them tends to be privately funded. Airport expansion therefore can have significant direct and indirect benefits to the area it serves without the need for public money or subsidy.Who knows somebody might even have the bright idea of putting a train station in there and build a track linking it to the rest of the network.

[Dashing Bob S]

Who knows somebody might even have the bright idea of putting a train station in there and build a track linking it to the rest of the network.

I know! I find it amazing that two railways lines (Fife and Glasgow) pass a few hundred yards from the airport, and neither can be re-routed slightly to give us a train station.

[J-C]

I know! I find it amazing that two railways lines (Fife and Glasgow) pass a few hundred yards from the airport, and neither can be re-routed slightly to give us a train station.


That's because the Lib Dems/Labour lot wanted the trams instead ??

[RyeSloan]

That's because the Lib Dems/Labour lot wanted the trams instead ??

Might be wrong but I think it was the National SNP administration that cancelled both the proposed rail links to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports...Edinburgh's was called EARL I think and would have connected soemthing like 40% of the population to the Airport and would almost certianly have been worth the £1bn that will be spent on half a tram line.

[Phil D. Rolls]

I can't get over the uproar over this decision by BAA. Surely the new operator will continue to develop the airport in the same way?

[RyeSloan]

I can't get over the uproar over this decision by BAA. Surely the new operator will continue to develop the airport in the same way?

What uproar? Suprise yes but uproar? :confused:

[heretoday]

Who knows somebody might even have the bright idea of putting a train station in there and build a track linking it to the rest of the network.

I told them. I told them. Did they listen? No.

Trams.

[Dashing Bob S]

Might be wrong but I think it was the National SNP administration that cancelled both the proposed rail links to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports...Edinburgh's was called EARL I think and would have connected soemthing like 40% of the population to the Airport and would almost certianly have been worth the £1bn that will be spent on half a tram line.

I may be oversimplifying things, but how much would it really cost to lay about three hundred yards of track, build a couple of platforms, and a put up a few signs saying 'EDINBURGH' and 'GLASGOW'?

[J-C]

Might be wrong but I think it was the National SNP administration that cancelled both the proposed rail links to Glasgow and Edinburgh airports...Edinburgh's was called EARL I think and would have connected soemthing like 40% of the population to the Airport and would almost certianly have been worth the £1bn that will be spent on half a tram line.

The proposal wasn't just for a simple spur and basic station at the airport, it was to build a significant station which would have connected to Fife, Aberdeen and also Glasgow airport, it was a massive investment if approved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Airport_Rail_Link

[RyeSloan]

The proposal wasn't just for a simple spur and basic station at the airport, it was to build a significant station which would have connected to Fife, Aberdeen and also Glasgow airport, it was a massive investment if approved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Airport_Rail_Link

I didn't say it was a simple spur.

As you say this was a significant investment that would have connected significant Scottish conurbations to our main airport....tis a real shame that it was cancelled in preference to the trams.

[J-C]

I didn't say it was a simple spur.

As you say this was a significant investment that would have connected significant Scottish conurbations to our main airport....tis a real shame that it was cancelled in preference to the trams.


I didn't say you did, just that the majority seem to think that this was the case, as you can see it wasn't. It was designed to be built with a train line running directly under the runway and into the the airport, not a spur as would've been the obvious choice. It was proposed by Libdem/Labour and opposed by SNP/Greens (costs and duplicating bus services already there), funny how the trams pushed through continually by Labour/Libdem also duplicates existing bus routes (22) at a staggering cost the Edinburgh people.

[RyeSloan]

I didn't say you did, just that the majority seem to think that this was the case, as you can see it wasn't. It was designed to be built with a train line running directly under the runway and into the the airport, not a spur as would've been the obvious choice. It was proposed by Libdem/Labour and opposed by SNP/Greens (costs and duplicating bus services already there), funny how the trams pushed through continually by Labour/Libdem also duplicates existing bus routes (22) at a staggering cost the Edinburgh people.

I'm with you..no idea why EARL required quite so much fancy engineering but surely the basic principle was a sound one. Unlike the trams.

[J-C]

I'm with you..no idea why EARL required quite so much fancy engineering but surely the basic principle was a sound one. Unlike the trams.
The simple spur taken from the northern line which runs past Turnhouse Rd would've been the answer, then a road from the terminus directly to there just for ferrying passengers on buses and Bob's yer uncle but who are we, just simple folk with no intellegence that don't have a voice.

[Killiehibbie]

The simple spur taken from the northern line which runs past Turnhouse Rd would've been the answer, then a road from the terminus directly to there just for ferrying passengers on buses and Bob's yer uncle but who are we, just simple folk with no intellegence that don't have a voice.Make it as complicated and expensive as possible to make sure it doesn't go ahead, probably still would've been cheaper than competing with the 22.