24 . Glasgow Business December 2015
Glasgow Airport’s Managing Director Amanda McMillan and Minister for Transport and the Islands Derek
Mackay MSP celebrate the opening of the East Pier
SOARING YEAR OF SUCCESS
GLASGOW AIRPORT’S... City can toast increase in passengers and more routes G
lasgow Airport will seek to build on an incredibly successful year by seting an ambition to hit the nine million-passenger mark in 2016.
Te move comes on the back of a
remarkable performance in 2015 that saw it atract an additional one million passengers in the year to October – a 14 per cent rise. Te airport has this year achieved the ‘triple
whammy’ of increased routes and rising passenger numbers with no dip in operational performance: 99.4 per cent of passengers having passed through security in less than 10 minutes. Glasgow Airport in October notched up 11
consecutive months of double-digit passenger growth. In 2015 alone, the airport has secured an incredible 26 new routes and services flying to and from Glasgow. Te latest to be announced – at time of
writing – came in November with the unveiling
”When you pause and look at all the new routes and the increase in passengers as a result, it really has been a phenomenal year of achievement”
of a new easyJet route to Marseille expected to carry 10,000 passengers annually from June 2016. Te new route heralds closer links with France’s second largest city with which Glasgow has been twinned since 2006. In October, Canadian airline WestJet
announced it was to boost the number of flights it operates between Glasgow Airport and Halifax, Nova Scotia, offering an additional
3,800 seats. Following the launch of the new, long haul daily direct service on 30 May 2015, the airline announced it would begin its 2016 schedule on 2 May – four weeks earlier than this year. Canada is Glasgow’s third largest international market with 37,000 trips made each year by Canadian visitors who generate £12 million for the city’s economy. Te Halifax link increases the airport’s long
haul connectivity, tapping in to WestJet’s extensive network throughout North America. Te Glasgow route was WestJet’s second transatlantic service following the launch in 2014 of direct flights to Dublin. Also in October, Ryanair launched its new
four times weekly route to Berlin and celebrated its first year of operations at the airport. During summer 2016 passengers will have 10 Ryanair routes to choose from. Flybe launched its winter schedule, again in October, which saw added frequency on its
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