Glasgow International Airport - General Thread

[Jerry]

Thanks Jerry. We love visiting Glasgow - have done so many times. GLA has the feel of a biggish airport even though its current annual passenger throughput is under 9 million.

Yes I found it to be a busy as an airport but not overly busy especially like Edinburgh where that always seems to be quite packed. I enjoyed flying from there. It now leaves me with Inverness to fly from to complete the set of the biggest Scottish airports to fly from.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Yes I found it to be a busy as an airport but not overly busy especially like Edinburgh where that always seems to be quite packed. I enjoyed flying from there. It now leaves me with Inverness to fly from to complete the set of the biggest Scottish airports to fly from.

We flew into and out of Inverness over ten years ago. It was a delightful airport to use then - they were so helpful. Hopefully, it still is.

 

[IanFarquharson]

British Airways drops ‘regional weekend’ CityFlyer services to Europe
During the week, BA CityFlyer flies from London City airport to key business destinations in Europe. At weekends, however, it offers a range of leisure destinations to maximise the use of its aircraft.

As far as I can tell, all of these services appear to have been cancelled for Summer 2020 although passengers have not been notified. Here are the impacted routes which have been cut:

From Edinburgh: Florence, Palma

From Glasgow: Palma

From Manchester: Alicante, Florence, Ibiza, Malaga, Mykonos, Nice, Palma

From Stansted: Faro, Florence, Ibiza, Malaga, Mykonos, Palma

 

[jfy1999]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1371199177401712643

 

[KARFA]

A fairly obvious consequence of the rules introduced in Scotland from mid February since all international arrivals must do enforced hotel quarantine for 10 days at a cost of £1750. Other than for red list countries, this is avoided by arriving in to somewhere else in the UK first before going to Scotland.

 

[Jerry]

Glasgow Airports Plummeting Success

There once was a point when both Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports were experiencing year on year growth. Now though, Edinburgh has been racing away from Glasgow in terms of airlines, flights and pass…

georgentravels.com

 

[Severn]

Aircraft Based / Overnighting at GLA - August 2022

TOTAL: 25
Note: Some aircraft may be standby aircraft or in maintenance

Loganair (7)

DHC6 (3)​

SF34 (2)​

E145 (2)​

easyJet (5)

A320 (5)​

Jet2 (5)

B738 (5)​

TUI (3)

B38M (2)​

B788 (1)​

British Airways (3)

A320 (2)​

A321 (1)​

BA Cityflyer (1)

E190 (1)​

KLM (1)

E295 (1)​

 

[GeorgeNTravels]

easyJet announcing that they will launch Larnaca (summer only) and Enfidha (year round) in summer 2024. More easyJet changes due to be confirmed shortly, but it appears to be good changes from what I have seen and heard.

 

[Aviador]

Welcome to Forums4airports @GeorgeNTravels and thank you for the information.

 

[Severn]

easyJet announcing that they will launch Larnaca (summer only) and Enfidha (year round) in summer 2024. More easyJet changes due to be confirmed shortly, but it appears to be good changes from what I have seen and heard.

Good news!
This September, easyJet had 211x departures per week, an increase of 59 (39%) departures in comparison to the same week in September 2019. Looks like easyJet at GLA will continue its growth this winter and next summer!

 

[GeorgeNTravels]

Glasgow Airport has uploaded a new webpage about its consultation on the new noise action plan for 2024-2028, but I want to draw attention to the highlighted bit in yellow.

Firstly, 20 airlines? By my count the airlines operating this year is 15 and next year is 16;

2024: Aer Lingus, Air Transat, BH Air, British Airways, Corendon Airlines, easyJet, Emirates, Icelandair, Jet2, KLM, Loganair, Lufthansa, Ryanair, TUI & WIZZ Air

2025: Aer Lingus, Air Transat, BH Air, British Airways, Corendon Airlines, easyJet, Emirates, Icelandair, Jet2, KLM, Loganair, Lufthansa, Ryanair, SunExpress, TUI & WIZZ Air

That would leave 4 missing (i'll come back to that point), next is destinations.

There are currently 86 destinations operating from GLA. Looking beyond S24, seven of these do not have flights on sale;

Charleroi, Pula, Bordeaux, Marseille, Chania, Lisbon & Newquay

Five new destinations are to be added in some capacity after S24;

Cork, La Romana, Sharm El Sheikh, Marrakesh & Vienna

Lets assume, hypothetically that all seven return, and adding in the five new routes would take the total to 91.

Lets again assume and say that the much talked about (by Andy Cliffe, AGS CEO) that a new Istanbul route is added with TK and a new flight to New York is added with a US carrier, that would still only take the number of airlines to 18 and the number of routes to 93.

So that raises a number of possibilities;

1. Somebody made a mistake on the website, not a great look on an official consultation, but hardly surprising as the airport destination map still has the tagline "we fly to 100+ destinations.

2. There will actually be 20 airlines and 100 destinations, and its just been revealed too early.

3. A mix of 1 and 2 together, some new airlines and existing airlines adding new routes. Ryanair and easyJet are the most likely candidate for new routes, the former especially has been a rumour for a while and has significant growth opportunities on the West Coast.

 

[GeorgeNTravels]

AGS had just been sold! Hopefully good news

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[Jerry]

Glasgow Airport to get a major 5 year investment

Major Scottish airport announces 'comprehensive transformation' of terminal

Biggest upgrade for 11 years to “significantly enhance passenger experience”

www.scotsman.com

 

[GeorgeNTravels]

Glasgow Airport to get a major 5 year investment

Major Scottish airport announces 'comprehensive transformation' of terminal

Biggest upgrade for 11 years to “significantly enhance passenger experience”

www.scotsman.com

Certainly interesting times coming for Glasgow and the other AGS airports, and marks a real shift from previous owners.

Seems to show they are no longer lying down in the fight for routes and passengers and are instead throwing everything they have at it, after all, they went from having no stand at Routes Europe in 2022 to now sending a team of 10, including the CEO this year.

 

[Jerry]

Certainly interesting times coming for Glasgow and the other AGS airports, and marks a real shift from previous owners.

Seems to show they are no longer lying down in the fight for routes and passengers and are instead throwing everything they have at it, after all, they went from having no stand at Routes Europe in 2022 to now sending a team of 10, including the CEO this year.

Well Edinburgh does seemingly look like it's leaving Glasgow behind so its better late than never. It'll be interesting to see how the money is spread over the 3 airports.

 

[Aviador]

The growth from neighbouring Edinburgh has been huge over the last several years, I think possibly originally spearheaded by a route development fund by the Scottish government well over a decade ago? Not something I support though as other than its capital status, Edinburgh is considerably smaller than Glasgow and doesn't in my view dererve the flights it has acquired seemingly at the expense of #GlasgowAirport

 

[Jerry]

Edinburgh is considerably smaller than Glasgow and doesn't in my view dererve the flights it has acquired seemingly at the expense of #GlasgowAirport

It has attracted those destinations for a reason. It has the inbound tourism pull that Glasgow seems to lack.

 

[Jerry]

It's always interesting to see new airlines and the more the better and it's a big achievement getting this far.
Only time will tell whether they last as an airline.

https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...nsatlantic-airline-live-updates-b2751351.html

 

[Jerry]

The video is about the Global flight but it was also interesting to hear his point of view of Glasgow Airport after not using it for a while.

 

[Jerry]

NEW ROUTE

United - Newark to Glasgow. Summer seasonal flights start 8 May 2026

UA230 EWR 2215-1010+1 GLA (Daily)

UA231 GLA 1400-1635 EWR (Daily)

Route to operate May - September

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976252471120101497