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GLASGOW AIRPORT
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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.
Contributions most welcome - please email
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and rumours by manually typing this address
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Last
update 10 May 2008 |
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
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 easyJet
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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 Flyglobespan:
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 |
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| 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 |
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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
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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.
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 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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Latest traffic
summary figures from BAA |
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Total passengers for the year
to Mar. 2008 |
8,661,100 (-2.3%) |
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Air Transport Movements year
to Mar.2008 |
91,667 (-5.3%) |
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Passengers (ooo's) |
602.6 |
Change on Mar. '07 |
-4.6% |
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Air Transport
Movements |
6815 |
Change on Mar. '07 |
-7.7% |
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Take-off from Glasgow Airport |
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Glasgow to
Dubai from £486,
Australia £691 |
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Paris CDG, Berlin
Malaga, Alicante, Faro and more... |
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Cardiff,
Manchester, Birmingham,
Belfast, Southampton &
more |
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Florida, Canada,
Canaries and the Med. |
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LONDON CITY, GATWICK &
HEATHROW T5 |
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Looking for cheap flights - Try
Netflights at the Airline Network |
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Glasgow-London
up to 8 times a day
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