globaltraveller

Usually, you'll find me at an airport. Edinburgher, Scottish & European. Work in Finance. It’s my views here, not those of my employer or anyone else.

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@pf872726 @MerrynSW Departures and Security are. But not Arrivals.

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I mean, what did they expect? The app was only available for download from today. People couldn’t do so in advance.

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David Ross, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, said:

“We launched the new ScotRail app and website booking system today – with thousands of people downloading it first thing this morning and successfully buying tickets to travel with us.

“Unfortunately, we are experiencing some intermittent technical difficulties with the app – with customers having problems while attempting to purchase tickets.

“We are sorry for the issues customers are experiencing, and I want to reassure them that we are working flat out with our supplier to fix the issue.

“In the meantime, customers who are facing difficulties with the new app can continue to use the previous app to buy tickets, or alternatively use ticket offices or ticket vending machines before they travel.

“I know this has been a frustrating day for some customers and I want to thank them for their patience while our teams work hard to get things up and running.”

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@robert_joffe @yuanyi_z Economically, it outperforms both cities… and even London. Most successful UK city of the last 10 years.

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@robert_joffe @yuanyi_z Politically, culturally and economically it is. Manchester and Birmingham are undoubtedly the second and third cities of England though.

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@ankaraliwick @aykiri A Turkish breakfast wouldn’t even make the top 10 best breakfasts in the world. Sorry.

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@AngusCapitan @PastGlasgow Was about to say this. The cars are the giveaway. This is a picture from sometime in the 1970s.

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@oldtownrez @StephenFlynnSNP A lack of hotel rooms too. Although there is a hotel building boom in Edinburgh at the moment.

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@KatrinaFaccenda Security is the slickest of any airport I’ve been to but the noticeable thing when you are through security is the lack of seating. Every space given over to selling something. Arrivals in the worst of any airport in Europe. Filthy, cramped, queues and a long wait for luggage.

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@JimSmith9914 @SeanDubIreland Same reason why many Americans visit Scotland though.

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@EdinburghAirport and Swissport once again operating an utter shambles of an organisation. An airport too small for the number of passengers it serves. Looking forward to spending my morning in baggage reclaim. Should have brought a picnic and downloaded some feature films.

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Why is there this push in the modern era to rate things and provide opinions? I booked a boiler service and, for the most part, interacted through a chat bot. We arranged a date and a time, I got a confirmation. That’s it. I do not need to rate the experience. Exhausting!

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@SimonCalder The Samye Ling Monastery in the Dumfriesshire Hills. Portmeirion in Gwynedd.

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@Unvaxxed2020 @Jackbmeyer Cultivated means unnatural, really. And yes, there are areas of Scotland that share similar landscapes to England. I gave you some examples. I also missed out the NE of Scotland as a cultivated landscape. Scotland is just a great deal more varied.

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@Unvaxxed2020 @Jackbmeyer Like the landscape in Scotland is one similar quantity. If we want a superior Lake District, we do the Trossachs. If we want cultivated rolling hills, greenery and villages we do Perthshire, the Borders or Fife. It is quite varied.

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@FranktheMarxist @AaronBastani Scotland has had a higher rate of emigration than Ireland.

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@MerrynSW Looking forward to the podcast Merryn. Some interesting philosophical questions. For many of those who hype LLMs and AI this is a religion for them. Questioning AI’s advances doesn’t seem to fit their “compute”. But I think we really need to.

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@SimonCalder @easyJet 2 hours before their check in officially opens. Due to the size of the queue we joined it and checked in before this. Check in and security are not so bad. Passport control at the gate was not so fine, however.

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@Birdiek21762463 @SimonCalder No won't be a problem. Having the stamp is sufficient.

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@SahilKapoor But...but...but....this time it's "different".