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Glasgow Prestwick is Scotland's fifth-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, although it is the largest in terms of land area. Passenger traffic peaked at 2.4 million in 2007 following a decade of rapid growth, driven in part by the boom in low-cost carriers, particularly Ryanair, which uses the airport as an operating base.
The Glasgow Airport attack was a terrorist ramming attack which occurred on 30 June 2007, at 15:11 BST, when a dark green Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane canisters was driven at the glass doors of the Glasgow Airport terminal and set ablaze. [3] The car's driver was severely burnt in the ensuing fire, and five members of the public were ...
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.
M8 nearing the west terminus of the motorway at Langbank, with views over the Clyde. The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland. [1] It connects the country's two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and serves other large communities including Airdrie, Coatbridge, Greenock, Livingston and Paisley. The motorway is 60 miles (97 km) long.
Gumtree.com, known as Gumtree, is a British-based online classified advertisement and community website based at Hotham House, Richmond, London. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. As of November 2010, it was the UK's largest website for local community classifieds and was ...
Glasgow Seaplane Terminal. Coordinates: 55.8586°N 4.29543°W. Seaplane at the jetty. Glasgow Seaplane Terminal is a seaplane airport terminal in Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in August 2007. The terminal is located in the 'Princes Dock' adjacent Glasgow Science Centre in the Pacific Quay area of the city. The city also has two international ...
John Smeaton KGM (born Bishopton, Renfrewshire [2] in 1976 [3] ), also known by the nickname Smeato, is a former baggage handler at Glasgow Airport. He became involved in thwarting the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack. Smeaton lives in Erskine, Renfrewshire, [4] a town outside the city and near the airport. Brought up in Erskine, he was educated at ...
Station usage figures saw a large decrease in 2020/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Glasgow Queen Street ( Scottish Gaelic: Sràid na Banrighinn) is a passenger railway terminus serving the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two mainline railway terminals (the larger being Glasgow Central) and is the third busiest ...