✈️| Prepare for security as normal this summer.
While work is underway to install new scanners at security this is an ongoing process and there is no change to the rules for now.
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🗣| Today's protest at the airport was a despicable act. This group knows that their brand of hatred would not be tolerated by right-thinking people and chose to sneak in and perpetrate it far from the terminal. 1/2
They do not represent the Scotland we live and work in or the Scotland that is recognised for its friendliness and tolerance across the globe. We condemn them unreservedly and will not accept it. We have contacted Police Scotland and asked them to pursue this matter urgently. 2/2
After 35 years
@Delta
Captain Andy Murphy is retiring. He chose his last flight to depart from his favourite city - Edinburgh! In his honour, we gave him a Scottish send off 🇺🇸🏴🍰
📢| New routes alert!
We are excited to announce
@VirginAtlantic
will fly from Edinburgh to:
🇧🇧 Barbados from Dec 2021
🇺🇸 Orlando from March 2022
Welcome to Edinburgh!
✈️| Here's the moment some special guests arrived earlier...
Anyone else see the Red Arrows today?
Share away if you've got photos or videos of your own.
#RedArrows
🏅| A hero’s welcome for the gold medal winning
@TeamGB
women’s curling team on their return to Edinburgh 👏
A huge congratulations from all at
@EDI_Airport
The first-ever direct flights from Scotland to China will begin in June. The ground-breaking announcement will see
@HainanAirlines
flights to Beijing beginning from 12th June, flying 4 weekly on an Airbus A330-300.
🎹 | Scotland U20s performing on and off the pitch! Dan King hitting the right note with passengers earlier this week. Good luck tonight! 🏉
#AsOne
Credit:
@scotlandteam
on TikTok
@SecretaryPete
Thank you for observing the silence with us, Secretary Buttigieg. As a former RAF base, it's important for us to remember and honour that past.
Safe travels.
🔴| Our control tower has been turned red to mark
@poppyscotland
's Light Up Red campaign.
The tower will remain red this weekend as we pay our respects and reflect on our history as a former RAF airbase.
#ScottishPoppyAppeal
The team at Edinburgh Airport, from our staff to airline, handling agent, air traffic control & many others have been fantastic during this crisis, with many not returning home & working tirelessly to keep the runway open & the airport functioning in very challenging conditions.
We're making our control tower even more iconic than it already is by installing a helter skelter around it! Experience the dizzying heights for yourself this summer.
#EDIAltichute
Good luck to
@Team_Muirhead
who head off to the Far East today to complete their final preparations. We’re proud to sponsor such an inspiring team! 🥌 🇰🇷
💪| Fresh from making history.
@JasminKParis
was welcomed back to Scotland by her family after her record breaking run at the Barkley Marathons in the US.
Jasmin has just become the first woman to complete the race, recognised as one of the toughest in the world.
The Queen has taken her final flight, as her coffin departs Edinburgh Airport and makes its way to Buckingham Palace.
God Save the Queen was played as the aircraft taxied at the airport.
Latest:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
🎥 | We had a ‘wee’ visitor from
@RAFBrizeNorton
yesterday. The C-17 landed as part of a routine training exercise, so we had to go out and see it for ourselves!
Firefighters at Edinburgh Airport today joined crews from across Scotland and the rest of the UK to observe a minute's silence in remembrance of their colleague Barry Martin, who recently passed away following a fire in Edinburgh.
🇺🇸| A welcome back to
@VirginAtlantic
as the airline resumes its Edinburgh to Orlando service.
It's operates twice a week so plenty opportunity to tick the theme park capital of the world off the bucket list.
Update: Edinburgh Airport is open and has received its first arrival this morning from Qatar. Staffing across our partners remains an issue but we are deploying 4x4s to ensure vital staff can get to the airport. 1/4
🏒 | Great to see
@FifeFlyers
fans heading out to Belfast for tonight’s Challenge Cup Final.
Good ‘puck’ to the Flyers and everyone heading out to cheer them on!
📸| Have you spotted the
#WomenInScience
exhibition at Gate 9?
#STEM
is such a big part of what we do as an airport and we're proud to be working with
@news_RSE
to promote some of Scotland's most prominent female scientists.
WE ARE BACK!
#Win
2 Business Class tickets from Edinburgh to Istanbul in celebration of
@TurkishAirlines
flights restarting on 16JUL, the 8th Anniversary of the first ever Edinburgh-Istanbul flight. To enter, simply comment
#WelcomeBackTK1345
below. T&Cs:
🎥| We managed to get outside into the sunshine to see this Air China 747-400 landing in the capital. The aircraft is a repatriation flight, helping people get home.
Travel conditions in Scotland this morning mean that the airport & airlines do not have the critical mass of staff needed to run operations securely. The airport is therefore closed until this position is reviewed at 1000 today. We ask that passengers do not come to the 1/2
We understand the need for a local angle but:
- we didn’t “announce major delays”
- the UKBF issue is now resolved
- that photo is months out of date
People are already nervous about travel, there’s no need to panic them further.
🇨🇦| New flights to Canada.
Edinburgh Airport will welcome
@WestJet
routes to Halifax and Toronto, adding to its existing Calgary route as the airline sets up home at Scotland's busiest airport, eh.
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🆕| Fly from Edinburgh to Gibraltar year-round with
@easyJet
! The inaugural flight on Scotland's first route to The Rock will depart on 31 March 2020 and the service will operate two times a week. 🏴🇬🇮