Glasgow Airport | GLA

About Glasgow Airport

Glasgow Airport, or Glasgow International Airport (IATA: GLA) is an international airport located just outside the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The airport is currently the second-busiest airport in Scotland, and the eigth-busiest airport in the UK, with 9.9 million passengers in 2017.

The airport was built and officially opened in 1966 by Queen Elizabeth II, with the first commercial flight being a British European Airways flight from Edinburgh. In the current day, the airport serves a number of destinations in Europe, North America and the Middle East with a number of airlines having bases at the airport including Loganair, TUI Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines, Jet2 and easyJet.

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Facilities

Facilities Include:

Free 1 hour WiFi

Baby Changing Facilities

Children's Play Area

Food and Drink concessions

Supermarket

Luggage storage and wrapping

Dry Cleaning

Mobile charging points

ATMs

Interfaith prayer and meditation room

Lounges Include:

Upperdeck Lounge: This airport lounge offers passengers alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, with WiFi, TVs, Magazines and Newspapers to keep you entertained. There is also a game room and children's play area to keep young travellers entertained whilst waiting for flights.

Book Lounge Passes for Glasgow Airport

Did you know that you can buy lounge passes for Glasgow Airport with Alternative Airlines? You can purchase them for the UpperDeck lounge.

Terminals

The airport has two terminals, the Main and Terminal 2, which are divided by the SkyHub with check-in, security and duty-free shopping. There are three piers; West, Central and East.

Top Destinations

Popular Domestic and International Destinations

The following table contains information and data taken from 2018 data on the busiest routes to and from Glasgow.

Rank	Airport	Passengers	Airlines
1	London Heathrow	911,191	British Airways
2	London Gatwick	620,383	British Airways, easyJet
3	Dublin	494,340	Aer Lingus Regional, Ryanair
4	Dubai - International	455,037	Emirates
5	London Stansted	432,349	easyJet
6	Amsterdam	418,067	easyJet, KLM
7	Bristol	312,051	easyJet
8	Alicante	296,363	British Airways, easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI
9	Belfast International	291,253	easyJet
10	London Luton	243,728	easyJet
11	Birmingham	234,522	easyJet, Flybe
12	Málaga	231,524	easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI
13	London City	230,223	British Airways
14	Tenerife - South	226,515	Jet2, Thomas Cook, TUI
15	Palma de Mallorca	206,673	British Airways, easyJet, Jet2, Thomas Cook, TUI
16	Southampton	186,325	Flybe
17	Berlin–Schönefeld	179,862	easyJet
18	Lanzarote	179,862	Jet2, Thomas Cook, TUI
19	Belfast-City	148,985	Flybe
20	Toronto-Pearson	137,736	Air Canada Route, Air Transat