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Glasgow Airport
News
Last update 23 July 2010 |
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Lingus Regional have announced a brand new link between
Shannon in the south west of Ireland and Glasgow. The daily flights
begin on 1 July onboard the environmentally friendly ATR-72-500
turboprop aircraft operated by Aer Arann under the franchise agreement
with Aer Lingus. The news of the new Shannon service comes just two
months after the joint venture set up new daily flights from Glasgow
to Cork and increased the Dublin service to four times daily. In
addition, Aer Arann launched also their own flights between Donegal
and Glasgow. See below for more on that.
www.aerlingus.com |
easyJet have decided to increase capacity on some of
their sunshine routes from Glasgow this summer by replacing one of the
based 156-seat Airbus A319 aircraft with the A320 which
 accommodates
180 passengers. The summer 2010 schedule is for Berlin, Alicante
and Malaga daily, Paris 6 weekly, Faro 3 weekly and Palma and Ibiza 2
weekly. On the domestic services, flights Stansted and Belfast depart up to 4 times a day while
Bristol, Gatwick and Luton are served 3 times each
day.
Booking early secures the best
fares at
www.easyjet.com |
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US Airways:
The summer 2010 season is now flying with daily flights to
the airline's hub at Philadelphia. This seasonal service runs until 1 October
and offers great onward connections throughout the USA and beyond to the
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Thomson have
revealed that their summer 2011 programme from Glasgow will include
the new destinations of Boa Vista, one of the islands of Cape Verde,
and Pula in Croatia. In the Dominican Republic Punta Cana joins Puerto
Plata for the full summer season giving Scots access to more of the
island's resorts.
www.thomson.co.uk
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Thomas Cook
have confirmed they will base a sixth
aircraft at Glasgow this summer. This expansion allows extra capacity
on some of their 29 summer routes from Glasgow.
Thomas Cook, whose brands include Airtours, Club 18-30 and Direct
Holidays
are Scotland's biggest tour operator. They offer the widest choice of
holidays to popular destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico, Florida,
Canada, Egypt, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Madeira, the Canaries and
the Mediterranean including Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta - all flying direct from Glasgow.
www.thomascook.com
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Aer Arann have
launched new flights from Donegal to Glasgow Airport. The new
service, which replaced the Donegal-Prestwick schedule,
operates four times a week. Fares starting from £37 one way including taxes
are available at
www.aerarann.com |
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 Virgin
Holidays
are again operating peak school holiday period flights to
Orlando, Florida from Glasgow in 2010 onboard their Boeing 747-400
"Jumbo Jets". These flights are available at
Virgin Atlantic
and package holidays and fly-drives are available direct from
Virgin Holidays.
The 2011 programme will see a greatly increased schedule
with up to 2 weekly flights operating all summer season from May to
October. |
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Barrhead Travel has
launched its own-brand package holiday programme for summer 2010 which
will serve popular sunspots in Majorca and mainland Spain.
The new charters, operated by British Airways' new Embraer aircraft, will operate weekly to
Barcelona and Palma from late May to mid September, with convenient
weekend departure times. The holiday flights will also carry Barrhead
Travel's passengers for cruise departures for Mediterranean
itineraries along with another Barrhead Travel exclusive charter to
Venice which will be flown by bmi.
www.barrheadtravel.co.uk |
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 Pakistan International Airlines: The axe-threatened twice-weekly Lahore-Glasgow service
has won a year's reprieve following meetings between the airline,
Glasgow Airport bosses, council officials, Mohammed Sarwar MP and
Pakistani community leaders. It is understood that average load
factors of 64% fell below break-even point and that new marketing
initiatives should be instigated to raise the profile of the route and
encourage its use. The basic message must be "Use it or lose it".
Ask your PIA-appointed travel agent for the direct flight or visit
www.piac.com.pk
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Flybe are again
flying to La Rochelle in western France next summer with a weekly
Saturday service. Also now on sale are summer flights to Jersey which
are doubled to 4 services a week over summer 2010.
www.flybe.com.
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Canadian Affair have upped their 5 weekly
Thomas Cook Boeing 757 operated Toronto summer service with the
addition of 2 Air Transat Airbus A310's on the route, making 7 flights
a week from Glasgow over summer 2010. Flights depart every day except
Wednesday and there are two flights on Thursdays. Fares start at £129
one way including taxes at
www.canadianaffair.com
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Emirates: Sydney is now less than a day’s travel from Scotland thanks to new
flights being introduced by Emirates.
The award-winning airline have introduced a new daily
service from Dubai to Sydney which departs just 75 minutes after the
arrival of its daily flight from Glasgow. With this new, quick
connection, the total travel time from Glasgow to Sydney is now just 22
hours and 25 minutes, having previously been over 30 hours.
Economy Class flights from
Glasgow to Sydney start from £655 per person.
From their international hub in Dubai, Emirates offer great connecting opportunities to popular destination in the
Middle East, Far East, Australasia, Indian Ocean islands, Africa, India and Pakistan.
All flights from Glasgow are on board state of the art 434 seat Boeing 777-300ER
aircraft. For information and reservations, visit
www.emirates.com/uk
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 BA CityFlyer
fly up to four times a day on the Glasgow to London City Airport (LCY) route. Situated just 10 miles from the West End and close to Canary Wharf, LCY
is convenient for visiting the capital on business or for pleasure as an
alternative to Heathrow. Over 11,000 passengers a month are now enjoying
the added simplicity and convenience of using this handy service for accessing London,
The City, Canary Wharf and Docklands areas.
Return fares start at just £78 including tax and charges. Flying time is
around 90mins
on board the Avro RJ85/100 jets with the new Embraer 170 expected to enter
service on the route in February.
www.ba.com |
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Icelandair have introduced
a new and improved schedule from Glasgow to Iceland and on to the USA.
Morning flights from Reykjavik operate 4 times a
week via Manchester inbound and depart Glasgow direct to Iceland in time
to meet connections to the USA on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and
Saturdays through May 31, 2010. A reduced summer schedule will operate
between June 3 and 30 August 2010 with flights on Mondays and Fridays.
www.icelandair.co.uk |
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 Flybe are now flying twice a day to
Cardiff with timings to suit a business day in either city. They also fly
from Glasgow up to 7 times a day to Birmingham and up to 5 times a day to
Manchester. They also serve Southampton 5 times daily, Belfast City 4 daily
and Exeter 12 weekly from Glasgow.
The UK's biggest regional airline have now fully integrated the Loganair
flights to the Highlands and Islands as well as the Isle of Man from
Glasgow. Through
fares on one-stop flights to Paris, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan,
Geneva and many other top European destinations are now available at
www.flybe.com |
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 Air Southwest
now link Glasgow to Devon and Cornwall. The
year round daily flights go direct to Newquay and onward to Plymouth. Fantastic
fares
from £35 each way are available direct from
www.airsouthwest.com
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Latest traffic
summary figures from
BAA |
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Total passengers for the year
to June 2009 |
6,787,200 (-11.4%) |
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Air Transport Movements year to June 2009 |
70,104 (-13%) |
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Passengers (ooo's) |
684.7 |
Change on Jun '09 |
-7% |
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Air Transport
Movements |
6665 |
Change on Jun '09 |
-4.9% |
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