BAA invests £60m into Scottish airports
BAA has announced a £60m five-year spending plan to attract more direct international flights to and from Scotland.
BAA said it will offer discounts on airport charges and marketing support as part of an international route development strategy for Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports. Traffic through BAA’s Scottish airports currently grows by more than 7% a year.
Discounts will be offered to all airlines starting new international services or increasing frequency/capacity on existing routes. Scotland currently has direct daily scheduled flights to and from Amsterdam, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, New York, Reykjavik, Stavanger and Toronto, with more than 16 million passengers using the airports at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
David Field, BAA Scottish Airports’ business development director, said: “Over the last 12 months, we have made a number of generous offers to airlines considering operating international services to and from Scotland. We will continue to do this and look for support from the public and private sector as we go forward.
“The business community has an increasingly important role to play in securing the viability of new services and as we have said many times in the past, the bottom line remains that if business people do not use direct services from Scotland, they will fail.”
Donal Dowds, managing director of BAA Scottish Airports, said: “This announcement underlines BAA’s long-standing commitment to Scotland’s airports and its air services and will ensure that Scotland continues to compete with regional airports the length and breadth of Europe in winning new direct international air services.
“There are straightforward economic barriers to cross when looking to attract new air services, which many amateur commentators are apparently unaware of. However, with this £60 million investment, we are putting our money where our mouth is.”
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