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GLASGOW AIRPORT                          News & rumours

An unofficial but concise source of Glasgow Airport airline news and route information, this page is updated regularly with all the latest news and developments at Glasgow Airport. Click here for the latest Traffic Summary Figures.
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Thomas Cook
have added weekly winter flights to Banjul, Gambia commencing on 4 November. Glasgow Airport's biggest tour operator is also offering some peak summer departures to Cayo Coco, Cuba in June and July 2009 - increasing the choice of faraway holidays flying direct from Scotland. Holidays in Gambia and Cuba from Glasgow can be booked now at www.thomascook.com

Thomson have added a series of winter flights to La Romana, Dominican Republic from 28 December with First Choice Airways. Also in the Dominican Republic new flights to Punta Cana in addition to Puerto Plata will operate over summer '09. www.thomsonfly.com

Flyglobespan have announced a new route for winter 2008. Flights to Hurghada, Egypt will depart once a week from 5 November. Other winter flights released so far include Sanford Florida once a week, Paphos, Las Palmas and Arrecife twice weekly and Tenerife daily.  www.flyglobespan.com


PIA have re-launched flights from Glasgow with twice weekly flights to Lahore, one of which continues on to Faisalabad. The Wednesday and Sunday flights which arrive in Glasgow at 3pm and depart at 4:45pm with 184 seat Airbus A310 aircraft have a choice of 3 classes - Economy, Economy Plus and Business Class. The 4000 mile direct flight from Glasgow takes around 9 hours. More information and bookings here here.

easyJet now fly to Paris CDG and Berlin daily from GlasgoweasyJet have added new flights to Faro, Portugal for the summer schedule. Flights began on 22 April initially at twice a week, rising to 3 weekly from 26 June. Other sunshine flights this summer include Alicante 9 times weekly, Malaga 8 weekly, Palma 3 weekly and Ibiza twice weekly. On the Euro city front, Paris CDG and Berlin continue on a daily basis. Of the domestic services, flights to Luton and Stansted depart up to 5 times a day while services to Bristol, Gatwick and Belfast International go 3 daily. www.easyjet.com
 


 

Flybe have launched three new routes from Glasgow as follows:

Glasgow - Cardiff: Flights operate twice daily with fares from £50 return including taxes and charges.

Glasgow – La Rochelle: Flights operate on Saturdays from 24th May 2008. Fares from £80 return including taxes and charges.

Glasgow - Newquay: Flights operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday. Fares from £60 return including taxes and charges.

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Flybe also fly from Glasgow up to 8 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. Jersey is served twice weekly over the summer. One stop flights to Paris are also available but the Norwich service has been cancelled. For the best fares book early at www.flybe.com
 

bmibaby have begun thrice weekly flights to Knock, Ireland West. Return fares starting from under £40 including tax and charges are available now. bmibaby currently fly from Glasgow to Birmingham and East Midlands 3 times a day weekdays and Cardiff daily. The Birmingham service reduces to two daily from mid July. bmibaby - the airline with tiny fares click here
 

Air Southwest have begun new flights from Glasgow to Plymouth and Newquay. The daily flight goes year round direct to Newquay and onward to Plymouth. Fares from £35 each way are on sale at www.airsouthwest.com
 
Shaheen Air intend to launch services from Glasgow to Faisalabad, Pakistan. The as yet unconfirmed proposal is for 2 Airbus A310 flights a week operating via Sharjah.
 
Flyglobespan's Boeing 737-700Flyglobespan: The summer schedule is for daily flights to Orlando Sanford, Tenerife, Faro, Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga and Palma. Flights to Toronto Hamilton, Paphos, Arrecife and Las Palmas go twice a week. Boeing 767-300 flights to Vancouver via Calgary go once a week from 10 May and twice weekly from 24 May for the summer with departures on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The seasonal service to Ibiza goes once a week. www.flyglobespan.com  
 
Canadian Affair: For summer 2008 Thomas Cook will operate all Glasgow flights for Canadian Affair, with up to 6 weekly departures to Toronto with 35" seat pitch Boeing 757 aircraft and a weekly Airbus A330 to Vancouver via Calgary. Flights to Toronto start as low as £228 return including tax and charges at www.canadianaffair.com Thomas Cook Boeing 757
 
US Airways 757 arriving from Philadelphia
US Airways: The seasonal service resumes on 16 May 2008 with a schedule of five flights a week to the airline's hub at Philadelphia. www.usairways.com
 
Zoom Airlines have up to 7 flights per week between Glasgow and Canada for summer 2008  - 3 per week to Toronto, 2 to Vancouver via Calgary and a twice weekly flight to Ottawa via Halifax. Booking early can secure fares from £294 return including tax and charges at www.flyzoom.com.
 
 
Continental Airlines: The summer 2008 schedule is for seven flights a week between Glasgow International and their Newark hub.

For more information and great fares direct to New York and onward to cities throughout the USA visit the Continental web site here.

 

Icelandair have 3 flights a week on the Glasgow-Reykjavik route which offers connections to Minneapolis-St Paul, Boston, Orlando, Toronto, New York JFK and Halifax. www.icelandair.co.uk
 
Virgin Atlantic: The summer 2008 Florida programme from Glasgow departs on 20, 21, 27, 28 June; 04, 05, 12 July and 03, 04, 11 October.
These flights are available at Virgin Atlantic.
 
BA CityFlyer provide up to 4 flights a day from Glasgow to London City Airport. Situated just 10 miles from the West End close to Canary Wharf, the airport is convenient for visiting the capital on business or leisure as an alternative to Heathrow. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from the airport meets the London Underground system at Canning Town and Bank stations.

Flights depart Glasgow at 0700, 0830, 1225 and 1550 and depart from London City at 0910, 1340, 1800 and 1920. Return fares start at £78 including tax and charges. Flying time is 1hr 35mins on board the Avro RJ100 jets.
www.ba.com
 
Aer Lingus: The summer schedule is for 2 flights a day between Glasgow and Dublin. Low cost fares start at £34 for a return flight including tax and charges at  www.aerlingus.com

Emirates 777 arriving from Dubai
Emirates flight EK26 departs Glasgow every day at the convenient time of 13:35 with great connecting opportunities at Dubai to popular destination in the Middle East, Far East, Australasia, Indian Ocean islands, India and Pakistan. All flights from Glasgow are on board state of the art 434 seat Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. For more details on Emirates' year round Glasgow service click here.
 

Glasgow Airport: Work is well underway on a £30 million project to expand and revamp the terminal building. The area between the terminal and T2 will see a new 2 story extension housing a single large security area which all departing passengers will pass through with the entire first floor of the terminal becoming airside.

The project, known as skyhub, aims to reduce security waiting times, increase capacity in the terminal.

The first phase involves the construction of a 4,000sq metre extension of the terminal which will include new shops, bars and restaurants on the ground floor, and a new purpose built security search area and World Duty Free store on the first floor. skyhub will open for business in October 2008.

Phase 2 will follow with the revamp of the existing 3 security search areas which will be transformed for use as retail, lounge and other passenger facilities. More information here.

In October 2006 BAA Glasgow Airport unveiled their master plan to build a 'World class gateway' for Glasgow. The £290 million blueprint outlines plans for the development of the airport which envisages handling up to 24 million passengers a year by 2030, more than half of them flying international, with a forecast 3.8m using long haul services. More information here Glasgow Airport

Preparatory work on the new rail link to the city centre got underway in 2007. Operational by 2011, the rail link will provide a dedicated train service every 15 minutes between Glasgow Central Station and a new station at Glasgow Airport. Trains will stop once at Paisley Gilmour Street and the journey time will be 16 minutes. More information on the rail link here.
 

 Latest traffic summary figures from BAA
 Total passengers for the year to Mar. 2008  8,661,100 (-2.3%)
 Air Transport Movements year to Mar.2008  91,667 (-5.3%)
 Passengers (ooo's)  602.6  Change on Mar. '07  -4.6%
 Air Transport Movements  6815  Change on Mar. '07  -7.7%
 
   

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