Glasgow Airport Information

Glasgow International Airport (formerly Glasgow Abbotsinch Airport) is located 8 miles (13 km) west of Glasgow city centre, near the towns of Paisley and Renfrew in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
In 2006 the airport handled 8,820,000 passengers making it the busiest in Scotland and seventh in the United Kingdom. At the same time there were 110,034 aircraft movements, making it the third and ninth busiest respectively. It was the first airport in Scotland to handle over one million passengers in one month.

Glasgow airport is owned by BAA, which also owns London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Stansted, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton airports. The airport has two runways and two terminals handling over 8 million passengers a year.

Glasgow International Airport is a hub airport for Loganair, EasyJet and Flyglobespan and is currently home to around 30 airlines flying to more than 80 destinations worldwide.

The airport is home to the Scottish regional airline Loganair, currently a British Airways franchise operator, who have hangar facilities as well as their head office located on site. British Airways itself has a maintenance hangar at the airport, capable of carrying out overhaul work on Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft, as well as a cargo facility. Glasgow is also one of two main bases for Flyglobespan though this carrier does not have major facilities on the airfield.

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