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There used to be good connectivity between EDI and LGW pre covid, with all the routes with the new BA Euroflyer out of LGW and the big uptake in BA Holidays with the double tier points you now either have to change airports from LHR or LCY to LGW to connect which is not ideal having to collect and re book luggage. There is one flight a day from GLA but the time is not ideal for connecting, thanks.
The GLA flight is actually timed for long haul connecting.
I don’t think BA sees (or wants to see!) short haul connections over London as an important market for them – to make the journey times compelling in both directions you’d need to have a high frequency of connecting flights, they’d have to be pretty expensive to cover the costs and most people would just stick to the direct options I suspect. Many Gatwick routes go out early or come back in late so you’d be running domestic flights at very undesirable times to connect which then wouldn’t get a decent yield on the London terminating traffic.
Also I’d say domestic flights likely do not fit in the BA Euroflyer model as their business assumptions will assume a take up of add ons – bags, seats, f&B which will be less popular on domestic routes.
The short answer is yes they should, if they want to feed the LGW long haul network from EDI as well as GLA.
BA don’t see the commercial need for it, believing their LHR and LCY flights are suitable for their connection traffic.
Yes, I’d like to see this reinstated, the lack of it (plus 1 lousy timed flight from GLA) puts me off a lot of destinations that are only served from LGW
Maybe end Glasgow to LHR flights altogether and switch them all to LGW?
Then passengers can choose to fly from EDI if they have a Heathrow connection, and GLA if they have a Gatwick connection.
If simply going to London, they’ll still have two airport choices LGW/LCY or LHR/LCY whichever side they are traveling from.
For many Scots it’s much of a muchness to fly from Paisley or the Capital
‘For many Scots it’s much of a muchness to fly from Paisley or the Capital’
Eh…………naw! 20 years ago it was possible to get direct public transport to GLA from Edinburgh city centre. Not now. You’ve got to go through – and change in – Glasgow to get to one of their airports. Whereas EDI has a direct link with Glasgow and is on the western edge of the Capital, easier for the Weegies to get through.
In any case both city’s should have access to LGW with BA. It’s a nonsense this doesn’t happen.Maybe end Glasgow to LHR flights altogether and switch them all to LGW?
Then passengers can choose to fly from EDI if they have a Heathrow connection, and GLA if they have a Gatwick connection.
A big no vote from me on that suggestion!
I could live with the reverse though (i.e., GLA-LHR, EDI-LGW).
Maybe end Glasgow to LHR flights altogether and switch them all to LGW?
Then passengers can choose to fly from EDI if they have a Heathrow connection, and GLA if they have a Gatwick connection.
A big no vote from me on that suggestion!
I could live with the reverse though (i.e., GLA-LHR, EDI-LGW).
Neither will happen to solely one airport as there are still a large number of business passengers travelling to and from LHR on a daily basis.
That was a right pain flying to Seville having to fly to LHR, spend 2 hours connecting via Elizabeth Line/Thameslink and then kicking my heels in the lounge for several mour hours on Tuesday.
Even infrequent flights (start/end of the day) would allow connection without the baggage collection and faff.
Of course it’s too much to expect English Airways to actually fly direct from Scotland!
Would be excellent if it did happen but simply don’t see it happening.
BA to LGW was perfect for me. Worked well for work travel (direct to City Thameslink) and leisure travel visiting friends in SW London and broadened the range of holiday destinations. The premium passenger experience was always better than LHR too.
Unfortunately LGW would be head to head with easyJet which would keep a lid on fares and I doubt the connecting traffic is worth much; most people would fly direct to somewhere they could get to with easyJet rather than change in London to go somewhere specific.
I think it’s nonsense to suggest that most people have no preferences where they fly from; if you’re east side of Glasgow much of a muchness but anywhere further east, Edinburgh is easier.
That was a right pain flying to Seville having to fly to LHR, spend 2 hours connecting via Elizabeth Line/Thameslink and then kicking my heels in the lounge for several mour hours on Tuesday.
Even infrequent flights (start/end of the day) would allow connection without the baggage collection and faff.
Of course it’s too much to expect English Airways to actually fly direct from Scotland!
‘English Airways’ No! London Airways.
Same issue for Jersey as well. With up to 5 flights daily to LHR they could at least put one of these on the LGW sector. It is not uncommon to see a large number of passengers arrive LHR from Jersey getting ground transport to LGW. Multiply this across all of the flights and it probably numbers enough for one plane a day. With the costs and hassle of transiting LHR / LGW / LHR it is getting more and more attractive to look at EasyJet JER / LGW for £28 each way
The situation is made even worse with BA’s poor IT.
It seems it is impossible for me to select to wait overnight and get the Gatwick flight to Glasgow, it seems to want to force me to transfer to the other airports to fly on one of the 1st 3 flights of the day (Gatwick is the 4th). The only way around this is to call and book.What itinerary are you booking? Is this for a cash or avios booking? Have you tried “stopover” or “multi-city”?
With the new runway at Gatwick they can scrap the third runway at Heathrow and spend the money on a high speed rail link (20 mins transfer), ideally designed cleverly with airside/landslide carriages.
With the new runway at Gatwick they can scrap the third runway at Heathrow and spend the money on a high speed rail link (20 mins transfer), ideally designed cleverly with airside/landslide carriages.
They cant even link the terminals at Heathrow airside properly. An intra-airport airside link is (unfortunately) a pipe dream.
With the new runway at Gatwick they can scrap the third runway at Heathrow and spend the money on a high speed rail link (20 mins transfer), ideally designed cleverly with airside/landslide carriages.
Opening in 2042 with a travelator from the new Horley Junctiom station *pending completion of the tunnel to the wrong end of north terminal for the shuttle…
*Mainline London/Brighton trains will call at Horley Junction between 0001 and 0010 on weekends only.
>They cant even link the terminals at Heathrow airside properly. An intra-airport airside link is (unfortunately) a pipe dream.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your conclusion but what you write epitomises the self-fulfilling defeatism that haunts modern Britain. At Doha airport this Saturday morning at 6am the building site for the terminal extension was buzzing with life. We need to realise in the UK that we will be out-competed into poverty if we don’t change our attitude.
That was a right pain flying to Seville having to fly to LHR, spend 2 hours connecting via Elizabeth Line/Thameslink and then kicking my heels in the lounge for several mour hours on Tuesday.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to take the direct hourly coach from T5 that runs between Heathrow & Gatwick?
The situation is made even worse with BA’s poor IT.
It seems it is impossible for me to select to wait overnight and get the Gatwick flight to Glasgow, it seems to want to force me to transfer to the other airports to fly on one of the 1st 3 flights of the day (Gatwick is the 4th). The only way around this is to call and book.Can definitely be done.
The Scottish crew booked the following BA holiday online in July.
July 4th – EDI to LHR
July 5th – LGW to MCO
7 nights Orlando Hotel
July 12th – MCO to LGW
July 15th – LHR to EDIIf you are just booking flights, try searching for the flights you want using Google Flights, then click through to buy from BA.
(There is definitely a random fault with the BA site that occasionally only shows the first 7 domestic flights of the day with a multi-city booking though.)
With the new runway at Gatwick they can scrap the third runway at Heathrow and spend the money on a high speed rail link (20 mins transfer), ideally designed cleverly with airside/landslide carriages.
For that to happen they will need to compulsorily purchase about £5 billion of property plus 10-20 years of disruption to some of the most wealthy areas of the country
For that to happen they will need to compulsorily purchase about £5 billion of property plus 10-20 years of disruption to some of the most wealthy areas of the country
Even better!
With the new runway at Gatwick they can scrap the third runway at Heathrow and spend the money on a high speed rail link (20 mins transfer), ideally designed cleverly with airside/landslide carriages.
For that to happen they will need to compulsorily purchase about £5 billion of property plus 10-20 years of disruption to some of the most wealthy areas of the country
What will happen is £30 billion will be announced to complete a high speed rail link. Land and properties will be compulsorily purchased well in advance closer to Gatwick, building will start at Heathrow T5.
Then costs will rise to £60 billion, the government will scrap the link and have a new terminus at the M25 Park and Ride, also known as the M25. Gatwick rail links will still be undeveloped further, barring a new spur to its existing railway to East Grinstead.
What itinerary are you booking? Is this for a cash or avios booking? Have you tried “stopover” or “multi-city”?
I cannot remember what the itinerary was that I was booking, I was looking at destinations to take my mother-in-law away. As she currently uses a wheelchair, moving airports across London did not appeal. We could easily have stayed overnight at a hotel in LGW to get the morning flight back to GLA from LGW if it was offered, but it was not. I do remember that I tried both cash and avios as well as the multi-city options and specifically specified LGW rather than LON and it still was forcing me to change airport.
The situation is made even worse with BA’s poor IT.
It seems it is impossible for me to select to wait overnight and get the Gatwick flight to Glasgow, it seems to want to force me to transfer to the other airports to fly on one of the 1st 3 flights of the day (Gatwick is the 4th). The only way around this is to call and book.Can definitely be done.
The Scottish crew booked the following BA holiday online in July.
July 4th – EDI to LHR
July 5th – LGW to MCO
7 nights Orlando Hotel
July 12th – MCO to LGW
July 15th – LHR to EDIIf you are just booking flights, try searching for the flights you want using Google Flights, then click through to buy from BA.
(There is definitely a random fault with the BA site that occasionally only shows the first 7 domestic flights of the day with a multi-city booking though.)
That is an example of having to change from LHR to LGW, not being able to specify a LGW to GLA flight to correspond with an outside UK to LGW flight.
I booked a BA holiday recently which involves a stay in Portugal and a few days in Scotland on our return. When I put in OPO-GLA, I just got LHR and LCY options for the London-GLA leg, however when I put OPO-LGW and LGW-GLA separately, the LGW option came up.
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