From GLA airport in Glasgow to city center

GLA Airport overview

Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International Airport (IATA: GLA, ICAO: EGPF) and formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 8.6 nautical miles (15.9 km; 9.9 mi) west of Glasgow city centre. In 2019 it handled 8.84 million passengers, an 8.4 per cent annual decrease, making it the second-busiest in Scotland, after Edinburgh Airport, and the ninth-busiest in the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by AGS Airports, which also owns and operates Aberdeen and Southampton airports. It was previously owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings (formerly known as BAA). Loganair are headquartered at the airport and have a maintenance hangar here. easyJet, Jet2.com and TUI Airways also use Glasgow as a hub. It was opened in 1966 and originally flights only operated to other places in the UK and Europe. It began to offer flights to elsewhere — flights that previously used Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was subsequently relegated as the city's secondary airport catering for Ryanair and freight operators.

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