Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of direct flights from Scottish airports to emerging economies which have commenced since 2010.
The table below shows the number of air transport movements at Scottish airports on direct routes outside Western Europe or North America, which have commenced since 2010.
Number of flight departures, 2010-2013
Reporting Airport | Next Airport | Next Country | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
Aberdeen | Baku | Azerbaijan |
| 62 | 84 | 1 |
Aberdeen | Riga | Latvia |
|
| 1 | 13 |
Aberdeen | Antalya | Turkey | 4 | 10 |
|
|
Edinburgh | Istanbul | Turkey |
|
| 97 | 314 |
Edinburgh | Budapest | Hungary |
| 92 | 137 | 137 |
Edinburgh | Sharm El Sheikh | Egypt | 44 | 16 |
| 39 |
Edinburgh | Tallin | Estonia |
| 125 |
|
|
Edinburgh | Szczecin (Golenow) | Poland |
|
| 49 | 62 |
Edinburgh | Katowice | Poland |
|
|
| 63 |
Edinburgh | Antalya | Turkey |
| 22 | 20 | 16 |
Edinburgh | Enfidha | Tunisia |
|
|
| 26 |
Glasgow | Enfidha | Tunisia |
| 34 | 74 | 116 |
Glasgow | Boa Vista (Rabil) | Cape Verde Islands |
| 35 | 53 |
|
Glasgow | Warsaw (Chopin) | Poland |
|
|
| 88 |
Glasgow | Gdansk | Poland |
|
|
| 86 |
Glasgow | Punta Cana | Dominican Republic |
| 13 |
|
|
Prestwick | Bydgoszcz | Poland |
|
| 83 | 105 |
Prestwick | Warsaw (Chopin) | Poland |
|
|
| 135 |
Prestwick | Modlin Masovia | Poland |
|
| 68 |
|
Prestwick | Rzeszow | Poland |
|
|
| 63 |
Prestwick | Warsaw (Modlin Masovia) | Poland |
|
|
| 42 |
Source: Civil Aviation Authority Airport Statistics
Routes with less than 10 departures in a year are excluded.