Edinburgh: General Airport News, Updates & Discussion

[Jerry]

My understanding is that there is an expansion to the airports fuel farm planned to be completed by the end of the year, should to my knowledge allow more fuel to be kept onsite.

But as you say with EDI wanting to grow YoY there needs to be lessons learned from this incident, and also for GLA, two central belt airports with 25 million pax between them being hit at the same time by the same incident should be a wake up call.

The more concerning thing from a PR POV was the lack of any form of update from either airport to the public, that lead to speculation that this was a much more serious scenario than it was

Would be major works to put in a pipeline from which ever port the fuel gets imported into.

 

[GeorgeNTravels]

Would be major works to put in a pipeline from which ever port the fuel gets imported into.

I'm not entirely sure where it gets its fuel from, but there is a railway line just to the east of the airport, so I would imagine conversations about fuel delivery by rail has taken place at some point, that's what PIK has.

I was reading an article from BP published in September 2024 which states that as of the time of publishing EDI had capacity to store 0.8 peak day demand of fuel, with plans to extend that to 1 day and then to 3 days.

It also states that all aviation fuel is currently delivered by road and a fuel tanker arrives approximately every 20 minutes at peak times just to meet demand!

Transforming Manchester and Edinburgh’s fuelling capacity

 

[Aviador]

The article also highlighted just how tight their storage capacity is. At the moment, EDI only has enough on-site storage to hold 0.8 days of peak demand. Air BP is actively working on a depot overhaul to increase that capacity to a full day, with longer-term plans to expand it to 3 days of storage by 2028.

It's a massive logistical operation on the roads just to keep the pumps flowing every day!

 

[Tormod]

Anyone got details of the works currently going on to extend the SE pier, and what they are to achieve? Nothing I can see on the official site.

 

[Aviador]

Anyone got details of the works currently going on to extend the SE pier, and what they are to achieve? Nothing I can see on the official site.

I don't know a lot about it but it appears to be part of the SEPEX Phase 1 project. Essentially, the airport is building a physical extension to the South East pier to add 8 new departure gates and massively increase the available gate seating space.

The official timeline has the delivery penciled in for April 2027. They've been a bit quiet on the main public site about it, but it's designed to heavily relieve terminal congestion during the morning and afternoon short-haul flight waves.

It would be nice to see some pictures of the on-going work if anybody is able to share some?