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I see that a Barrhead Travel article in Travel Weekly have again stated that the lack of flights from Glasgow to the USA, only one Emirates flight and only one flight to Gatwick is of concern to them. They know their market well but who is listening to them? surely Emirates, Virgin, BA and others mu...

EDI has been the politically preferred airport since the last UK Labour government when the then transport minister Alistair Darling announced that EDI would get a second runway, and later this preference has continued with the subsidising support from the Scottish parliament and of course not to fo...

Merry Christmas to everyone, hopefully next year there will be more good news on the route development side.

The EK first approach which resulted in an go around was because they were too high, this was feedback from a passenger.

EK just landed having passed over my house twice and looks like it is waiting behind a Ryanair to get to stand.

I would expect that co tact has already been made shortly after the initial earthquakes and as the experts are predicting a long term potential problem for volcanic eruptions both Icelandair and Play must have a high priority for a “Hub” solution which involves an “In transit area for connecting pas...

Agreed, perhaps it will help to reverse the EDI bias that has been evident for some time, we can only hope it benefits GLA.

As I recall the runway resurfacing is planned for completion January 2026 at a cost of £24 million! Quite a problem for them!

I completely agree, aircraft on the ground waiting for a stand do not make money for the airline and have disgruntled passengers on board. Additionally there is also this recurring problem there with the ground handlers inability to cope with passenger luggage. Surely these are issues that GLA could...

There is an interesting article in Travel Weekly from Barrhead Travel regarding the lack of transatlantic flights from Glasgow and highlighting the previous demand, it also states that they are talking to airlines, at least that could help the situation being a major travel agency.