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Just found a couple of drawings I did years ago, looking at the airport using the land now being build on for the Glasgow Airport Investment Area to see how a new terminal would fit in to scale.

No one needs to say it - I know this will now never be required but the idea was fun for me while it lasted.

Seeing this prompted me to look back to previous reports commissioned by the Airport, the most recent of which was from 2019, so pre-pandemic. However, it was basing it's conclusions on an expected 12.8mppa by 2028, and 16.8m by 2040 ( copy here https://www.glasgowairport.com/media/27 ... ummary.pdf

This may have been discussed at the time, but that is all disappeared with the creation of the new forum, so maybe worth re-visiting. Of note was the planned update in 2019 of the original 2011 masterplan, this appears never to have appeared, and I suspect will need a lot re-writing given current circumstances. The airport also put out a press release around this https://www.glasgowairport.com/media-ce ... -000-jobs/, note the huge amount of extra parking on the heading artwork.

Clive wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 1:02 pm

Clive writes: No one needs to say it - I know this will now never be required but the idea was fun for me while it lasted.

I remember these drawings that you presented & I especially liked idea of drawing one … Good fun as you say, but the layout/idea was certainly something in days gone by & (IMO) something that with the correct investment & forethought might’ve been possible…. And yup no one needs to say it (but) “With present owners/management team etc… Nothing of this nature is going to happen, as the airport loses Customer after Customer, a drought of of loco services and all scheduled USA and most Canadian traffic lost to competition” .. Shame.

Yeah, I remember these too first time round. Loved the idea of the T2 area and especially aiming this terminal for lo-co carriers. Alas, it'll never happen in my lifetime if ever at all now.

bill wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 1:22 pm Yeah, I remember these too first time round. Loved the idea of the T2 area and especially aiming this terminal for lo-co carriers. Alas, it'll never happen in my lifetime if ever at all now.

Definitely not in my lifetime, that’s for sure.

It’s academical now as most of the land is going to non-aviation use. Part of my thinking at the time was to divert the road (as has happened) and safeguard the resultant extra acreage for airport use before someone else had a bright idea. Dead and buried now.