easyJet flights from Munich to Edinburgh

Looks like easyJet will be offering direct flights from Edinburgh to Munich from April 2007. No details yet on the easyJet website, but the news story is in the Scotsman:


Scotsman: Plan for Capital air link with Munich cleared for take off

This is going to be some seriously good news for a lot of people. About time they did this route.

oh that will make a certain frisbee playing star gazer very happy!

phew

not in time for my fortieth tho! They don't start services until three weeks after the party

route now confirmed on the easyjet website
"The fares start from £21.99 one way including tax. Seats for Munich will be on sale in December when the airline launches its Summer schedule."

and the first two comments on the story are

fantastic!!! ooh fingers crossed for this one. Altho lets hope this doesnt go the same way as the bmi route ie cancelled before they even start flying.

Phoned my mum & told her, she's chuffed, this will be brilliant if it comes through.

That's great! Just yesterday I met a co-worker of mine who paid around 460 GBP for a flight from Edinburgh via Paris.

yeah, back then they didn't get the slots they wanted at Munich, so they pulled the route.

rumour has it that BMI have again applied for slots at MUC for a twice daily service to EDI, and Adria Airways have apparently also applied for slots ... who knows, we could end up with more than just easyjet servicing this route!
the easyjet service to EDI will be a once daily service.

easyjet.com: NEW route from Edinburgh to Munich

Too bad it will be too late for the 6 nations tournament. You would have thought that a direct flight between twin cities (such as Munich - Edinburgh - Bordeaux) would have been poplular and well sought after routes.

Apparently it was announced on Friday that Easyjet will open up a new route from Edinburgh to Munich starting in April 07. Flights start at 21.99 one way incl tax and will start to book in December when the new summer schedule is published. No details of flight times until then but finally it looks like there might be a direct route home ... finally!!

Sorry didnt find this thread until I had already posted it! Good news all the same

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is this totally, definitely, the truth???

I'm fed up lugging my 3 kids across terminals at a ridiculous cost just to get back to Scotland for a visit. Please, Please let this be true!!

No more shopping supply worries , I could just nip over myself!!

YeeeH!!

Yee Hah just checked the easyjet website and its Truuuuuuuuuue!!!

I've just called my mum and come the first December we are gonna book up!!!

shame

Happy for all of you who have family there -- happy for me because now I may finally get a chance to see Scotland! Yea!!

Would be even better if it was Munich to Leeds/Bradford!!!

Paying a fortune to keep coming accross via here and there!

I am going to love this service if it actually comes to pass. didn't read a single thing before posting my response.

easyjet flights to Edinburgh are already available for booking on the easyjet website. departure times of the new route are as follows:
Munich to Edinburgh flight 6912; dep. 16:45 arr. 18:10
Edinburgh to Munich flight 6911; dep. 12:50 arr. 16:15

Does anybody know of a flight from Munich to Limoge in France at the moment I fly to Toulouse some 3 hours away by cay

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th april. Munich - Edinburgh!!

Cost of your selection
Airfare per adult or child €41.36
(per person)

Taxes and charges per adult or child €25.00
(per person)

Total amount due:
1 adult
€66.36
(total cost)

@ wee Mun,

That is a brilliant price for the easter weeekend.

WOOP WOOP

I live in Edinburgh normally so when I heard this i was so happy. No more waiting in Stanstead for hours for my connecting flight!

Cant fekking wait...and it's in time for My 21st in May I can go home and spend it with my friends and family now :

just booked flights home for a wedding in July for 73€ incl credit card charges - liking this a lot

YEE HA!! Just booked for 5, YES 5, of us in April, to Edinburgh! 258 quid!! Superb!!!

Have just booked Easter and Mother's Day - fantastic!

i need it for march :-(

Just booked Easter too. Can imagine there will be a few TT'ers heading over on same flight.

Will have to see if Wee Mun wants to share a taxi (but my flat is obviously too far from his for him to have returned my DVD so...) but yes, it could be like a school trip, I've got Fri-Mon though.

me too!

68€ return at end of May : oh HAPPY DAYS !!!

Don't you think with flights this cheap, between us we could even stock up a 'Scottish" shop selling all our lovely local delicacies?

Lets hope they keep it up.Previous experience has shown that airlines start this and 6 months later they stop it.Hapag Lloyd did this to Newcastle but stopped it after 6 months.Is it a direct flight by the way?

Yeah, it's direct. There were always plenty of indirect flights. Easyjet are pretty fickle and if the route doesn't make enough to justify it, then they won't hesitate to scrap it -- especially considering the high landing fees at Munich airport. That said, I think there's more than enough demand for a Bavaria-Scotland route, so hopefully this one will last.

I don't know if there would be a huge demand for deep fried Mars Bars and Haggis.

Its Official, Bookings are now being taken.

I just booked flights direct to Edinburgh today with Easyjet.

Much cheapness to be had.

Entire family of 3 there and back for 290euros

I'd pay good money for a nice bit of haggis

Do you not think the money they could pull in at Oktoberfest alone could justify the flights??

Deep fried Mars bars and haggis ... Ohhh maan that sounds pure magic ! hehehehe

Never took to deep fried mars bars!! Did you try deep fried Creme Eggs?? We are having haggis tomorrow complete with a real Turnip that I found in AEZ. Why is it so difficult to find turnips?

Square sausage anyone?

Just booked the flights for the Oktoberfest trip, £44 each return, plus £5 for the cc fee

Hopefully they won't pull the plug on this - the last direct flight I had between EDI and MUC was with Duo. We flew home on the Tuesday, and the airline went bust on the Friday. It couldn't have been our bar tab, not on a two hour flight

be warned - just received email from Easyjet looking for more money for taxes on these flights i booked. It thankfully only seems to be about €10 but still a pain!

This isn't really EasyJet's fault, but rather the incompetence of New Labour. The problem was that the rise in duty was announced in December 2006 for all flights after February 1 2007. Obviously, a lot of people had already booked and paid for travel at the old rate. But the new rate of duty applies to all passengers, regardless of when they booked their travel.

It's possibly illegal for the government to do this -- it's certainly incompetent. The sensible option would have been to apply the new duty to all bookings made after Feb. 1. But the extra revenue raised by including pre-booked travel was just too tempting. In fact, the Treasury is expected to benefit to the tune of £100m by introducing the tax in February rather than the traditional date of April.

The extra duty charges on passengers who have prebooked travel total over £100m. British Airways have chosen to absorb their £6m bill rather than go back to their customers and ask for more, but obviously the budget airlines will be seeking the monies from their passengers.

See: Brown accused over air tax timing

Has anyone flown this route yet? Is it still going strong? Anyone know if there is a size limit for the piece of checked baggage? I could only find a weight limit on the website... I am about to book flights for June and just wondering about getting everything I need for two adults, a toddler and an infant into three bags...especially since we will probably want to take a backpack-child-carrier which will take up one whole piece of baggage...

Hasn't started yet. Launches on the 1st of April or then abouts I think.

I've tried to fly to regional destinations in the UK over the years and I wish this route well.
But seeing as it is being subsidised by regional development and tourist promotion monies I wouldn't hold my breath that it will survive long term.

I think once you go over 20kg per person you pay for additional baggage. I hope this route lasts. I've got 2 flights booked on it already. I think it has a chance as people in Scotland really value direct flights and that alone will raise some interest. To most major cities main airport you need to go via Heathrow and it costs time and money. My company lobbied the Scottish authorities for years to get a Munich-Glasgow/Edinburgh flight and we do have significant business traffic.

Well, if the route starts in April, it should make it until june at least! I have never flown EasyJet and it sounded like they were a bit strict on luggage allowances/etc. Just wondering...

No.
The Oktoberfest represents a peak for flights to Munich and some extra flights are put on.
But that can't pay for the route.

You need a steadily filled aeroplane week in, week out.
And some of the passengers need to be paying higher fares.