Glesga Airport

Glesga Airport, an aw unoffeecially Glesga Internaitional Airport (IATA: GLA, ICAO: EGPF), umwhile Abbotsinch Airport, is a internaitional airport in Scotland, locatit 8.6 nautical mile (15.9 km; 9.9 mi) wast o Glesga ceety centre. In 2016, the airport handled nearly 9.4 million passengers, a 7% annual increase, makkin it the seicont-busiest in Scotland, efter Edinburgh Airport, an the aicht-busiest airport in the Unitit Kinrick. It is the primar airport servin the wast o Scotland an is the principal transatlantic an direct lang-haul entry airport intae Scotland. The airport is awned an operatit bi AGS Airports which awns an operates Aiberdeen an Southampton Airports an aw. It wis previously awned an operatit bi Heathrow Airport Holdings (umwhile kent as BAA). The airport's lairgest tenants are British Airways an Loganair (currently franchisin uisin Flybe), the latter uisin it as a hub. Ither major airlines uisin GLA as a base include EasyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines an Thomson Airways. Glesga Airport wis opened in 1966 an oreeginally flichts anerly operatit tae ither places in the Unitit Kinrick an Europe. Glesga Airport began tae affer flichts tae ither places aroond the warld, flichts which previously uised Glesga Prestwick Airport, which wis subsequently relegatit as the ceety's seicontar airport caterin for law-cost airlines, freicht an chairter operators. References Notes References Bibliografie Freemit airtins Media relatit tae Glasgow International Airport at Wikimedia Commons Offeecial wabsteid