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New Scotland to Netherlands flights launch with a VIP welcome

Transavia last night launched its new service between Edinburgh and Rotterdam - and had its first planeload of passengers piped on to the tarmac in the Scottish capital.

The budget airline owned by KLM and Air France will fly between the cities initially on Thursdays and Sundays on a Boeing 737-800. In April, it will increase its service to four times weekly, on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The Merchiston Senior Pipe Band welcomed passengers to Scotland just after 7pm. The service flies from Rotterdam at 6.45pm local time. The return flight leaves Scotland at 7.45pm, landing in the Netherlands at 10.05pm.

The new service adds to an offering from Edinburgh that includes Wizz's routes to Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw & Gdansk, Ryanair to Verona and Laudamotion to Vienna.

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