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Glasgow Airport, also known as Glasgow International Airport ( IATA: GLA[ 4], ICAO: EGPF) ( Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Eadar-nàiseanta Ghlaschu ), formerly Abbotsinch Airport, is an international airport in Scotland. It is located in Paisley, Renfrewshire, 8.6 nautical miles (15.9 km; 9.9 mi) west [ 1] of Glasgow city centre.
By the time BAA had been privatised in 1987, Edinburgh Airport handled over 1.8 million passengers each year; compared to the 681,000 passengers handled in 1971 when BAA first took control of the airport. [9] RAF Turnhouse was operational near the passenger terminal of the airport for all of the post-war period but was finally closed in 1997. [10]
The airport was opened on 25 March 1946 as London Airport. The airport was renamed Heathrow Airport in the last week of September 1966, to avoid confusion with the other two airports which serve London, Gatwick and Stansted. [12] The design for the airport was by Sir Frederick Gibberd. He set out the original terminals and central-area ...
AGS Airports Limited is the United Kingdom-based owner of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton Airports.The company was formed in September 2014 by Ferrovial, a Spanish firm specialising in the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of transport, urban and services infrastructure, and Macquarie Group, an Australian company, composed of diversified financial services.
Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s; it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which cover areas of 98,000 m 2 (1,050,000 sq ft; 117,000 sq yd) and 160,000 m 2 (1,700,000 sq ft; 190,000 sq yd) respectively. [ 7]
The airport is owned and operated by AGS Airports which also owns and operates Glasgow and Southampton airports. It was previously owned and operated by Heathrow Airport Holdings (formerly known as BAA). Aberdeen Airport is a base for Eastern Airways and Loganair. The airport also serves as the main heliport for the offshore North Sea oil and ...
Heathrow Airport has been the main hub of British Airways since its formation; most activity has been based in the Terminal 5 complex since 2008.. British Airways (BA), the United Kingdom's national airline, was formed in 1974 with the merger of the two largest UK airlines, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA), and including also two smaller regional ...
Heathrow Airport Holdings is a company that operates and manages Heathrow Airport based in London, England. It was formed by the privatisation of the British Airports Authority as BAA plc[ 2] as part of Margaret Thatcher 's privatisation of government-owned assets, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.