Glasgow International Airport - Overview

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Glasgow International AIrport - Overview

Glasgow International Airport is one of the busiest airport in Scotland, handling around 9 million passengers per year. You can fly directly from Glasgow Airport to over 150 worldwide destinations with 50 different airlines flying to and from the airport.

Glasgow has just under 30 long haul services which reach as far as the United States, Canada, Mexico the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle east and Pakistan. The majority of these flights are scheduled flights and operate all year round.

All three of Scotland’s home grown airlines are all based at Glasgow Airport. That’s Loganair who are a franchise of British Airways, Air Scotland and Scotland’s largest airline FlyGlobespan.

Aircraft using Glasgow Airport.
The largest aircraft that uses Glasgow Airport is the Boeing 777-300ER. Emirates Airlines use this aircraft on their hugely successful Glasgow to Dubai route. This route is expected to go twice daily from April.

The Boeing 747-400 also uses Glasgow on a frequent bases with Air Atlanta/Excel Airways, Travel City Direct and Virgin Atlantic.

Connections.
In recent years many Americans and Canadians have been using Glasgow Airport as a gateway to Europe. These passengers will arrive into Glasgow on cheap flights from North America, largely offered by Air Transat, FlyGlobespan, US Airways and Zoom Airlines. Once in Glasgow they will use Easyjet or FlyGlobespan for onward flights to the UK and Europe. People from the UK and Europe are also doing this for cheap access to North America.

Glasgow Airport Hotels.
There are 5 hotels at Glasgow International. The Holiday Inn, Express by Holiday Inn, Ramada, Travelogue and a Premier Travel Inn.

Destinations from Glasgow Airport.
The following list is of destinations served from both Glasgow International and Glasgow Prestwick. Basicly they are all from Glasgow International apart from the Ryanair flights.

AUSTRIA
Innsbruke: Tyrolean
Salzburg: Thomson Fly
Vienna: Air Berlin

BARBADOS
Bridgetown: FlyGlobespan

BELGIUM
Brussels Charleroi: Ryanair

BULGARIA
Bourgas: BH Balkan Airways, First Choice Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Sofia: First Choice Airways
Varna: BH Balkan Airways

CANADA
Calgary: Zoom Airlines, Air Transat
Halifax: Zoom Airlines
Ottawa: Zoom Airlines
Toronto: Zoom Airlines, Thomas Cook, Air Transat
Vancouver: Zoom Airlines, Air Transat

CROATIA
Dubrovnik: Croatia Airlines, Thomson Fly
Pula: FlyGlobespan

CUBA
Cayo Coco: Monarch
Holguin: Monarch
Varadero: Monarch

CYPRUS
Ercan: KTHY
Larnaca: First Choice, Excel Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Paphos: FlyGlobespan, First Choice Airways, Thomson Fly, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook

CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague: FlyGlobespan

DENMARK
Copenhagen: bmi baby, bmi British Midland, SAS Scandinavian Airlines

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
La Romana: Zoom Airlines
Puerto Plata: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, ThomsonFly
Punta Cana: Zoom Airlines

EGYPT
Hurghada: MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Luxor: MyTravel Airways
Sharm el Sheikh: Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly, Excel Airways, First Choice

FINLAND
Ivalo: Thomson Fly
kittila: First Choice Airways
Rovaniemi: First Choice Airways

FRANCE
Grenoble: Ryanair
Lyon: Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Marseille: Ryanair
Nice: FlyGlobespan
Paris Beauvais: Ryanair
Paris CDG: British Airways
Toulouse: First Choice Airways

GERMANY
Berlin Schoenefeld: Easyjet
Berlin Tegel: Air Berlin
Dusseldorf International: Air Berlin
Dusseldorf Weeze: Ryanair
Frankfurt Hahn: Ryanair
Frankfurt Main: British Airways
Hanover: Air Berlin
Leipzig: Air Berlin
Munich: British Airways
Munster: Air Berlin
Nuremberg: Air Berlin
Paderborn: Air Berlin

GREECE
Athens: Air Scotland, FlyGlobespan, Greece Airways
Corfu: First Choice Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Crete: FlyGlobespan, First Choice, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, MyTravel Airways
Kos: MyTravel Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Rhodes: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Thessaloniki: First Choice
Zante: First Choice Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly

ICELAND
Reykjavik: Icelandair

ITALY
Milan Bergamo: Ryanair
Naples: Thomson Fly
Pisa: bmi British Midland, Ryanair
Rome: Ryanair
Turin: First Choice Airways
Venice: bmi British Midland
Verona: bmi British Midland

LATVIA
Riga: Ryanair

MALTA
Malta: Air Malta, Thomson Fly, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook

MEXICO
Cancun: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomson Fly

MOROCCO
Agadir: First Choice Airways

NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam: KLM, Transavia
Eindhoven: Ryanair

NORWAY
Oslo: Ryanair

PAKISTAN
Islamabad: PIA Pakistan International
Karachi: PIA Pakistan International
Lahore: PIA Pakistan International

POLAND
Gdansk: Wizz Air
Krakow: Ryanair
Warsaw: Wizz Air
Wroclaw: Ryanair

PORTUGAL
Faro: FlyGlobespan, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Funchal: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Cork: British Airways
Donegal: Aer Arann
Dublin: Aer Lingus, British Airways, Ryanair
Shannon: Ryanair

SPAIN
Alicante: Easyjet, FlyGlobespan, First Choice, Excel Airways, MyTravel, Thomas Cook
Almeria: MyTravel Airways
Barcelona: FlyGlobespan
Fuerteventura: FlyGlobespan, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Gerona: Ryanair, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Ibiza: FlyGlobespan, First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Lanzarote: FlyGlobespan, First Choice, Excel Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Las Palmas: FlyGlobespan, First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomson Fly, Iberworld
Mahon: First Choice Airways, Thomson Fly, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook, Futura, Spanair
Malaga: Easyjet, FlyGlobespan, First Choice, Thomas Cook, Iberworld, Thomson Fly, Spanair
Murcia: Ryanair
Palma: Easyjet, FlyGlobespan, Thomson Fly, First Choice, MyTravel, Excel Airways, Monarch
Reus: Ryanair, MyTravel Airways, First Choice Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly
Tenerife: FlyGlobespan, First Choice Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook, Thomson Fly

SWEDEN
Gothenburg: Ryanair
Malmo: Malmo Aviation
Stockholm: Ryanair

SWITZERLAND
Geneva: Easyjet

TUNISIA
Monastir: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Karthago, Thomas Cook

TURKEY
Antalya: MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Bodrum: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Dalaman: First Choice Airways, Pagasus, Thomson Fly, MyTravel Airways, Thomas Cook
Izmir: Thomas Cook

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Dubai: Emirates

UNITED KINGDOM
Aberdeen: British Airways
Barra: British Airways
Belfast City: FlyBe
Belfast International: Easyjet
Benbecula: United Kingdom
Birmingham: British Airways, FlyBe
Bournemouth: Ryanair
Bristol: British Airways, Easyjet
Campbeltown: British Airways
Cardiff: bmi baby
Exeter: FlyBe
Islay: British Airways
Jersey: FlyBe
Kirkwall: British Airways
Leeds/Bradford: bmi British Midland
London Gatwick: British Airways, Easyjet
London Heathrow: bmi British Midland, British Airways
London Luton: Easyjet
London Stansted: Air Berlin, Easyjet, FlyGlobespan, Ryanair
Londonderry: British Airways
Manchester: British Airways
Norwich: FlyBe
Nottingham: bmi baby
Shetland: British Airways
Southampton: FlyBe
Stornoway: British Airways
Tiree: British Airways

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Boston: FlyGlobespan
Chicago: American Airlines
Las Vegas: FlyGlobespan, MyTravel Airways
New York Newark: Continental Airlines
Orlando International: FlyGlobespan, Virgin Atlantic
Orlando Sanford: First Choice Airways, MyTravel Airways, Excel Airways, Thomas Cook
Philadelphia: US Airways

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