Airport Planning and Management

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GLASGOW AIRPORT
Location
 Glasgow Airport is an international Airport of Scotland and is located in Paisley,
Renfrewshire which is geographically 8.6 nautical miles west of the city center of
Glasgow (glasgowairport.com 2019).
Catchment Area
 The Glasgow Airport is one of Europe’s fastest growing airports and has a
catchment area of 2.3 million people annually with more than 8.7 million passengers
(glasgowairport.com 2019). There has been an increase of around 13% annual
growth which proves the importance of the airport in Europe.

GLASGOW AIRPORT
Major Customers
 The management of the Glasgow Airport delivers the best infrastructure and services to the
passengers of the airport according to the policies and the guidelines as set out by the
government of United Kingdom(Margaryan Littlejohn and Stanton 2017)
 The Airport serves a large area of the main Glasgow and is also used by many in case of many
people from other parts of Britain in case of different problems in other major Airports of
United Kingdom.
Type of Aircraft
 According to the study of, (Budd and Ison 2018)The airport is capable of handling all kinds of
aircrafts which starts from small aircrafts like private charters to medium and large sized
aircrafts like Airbus A-320, Boeing-737, Boeing 777 jumbo jet, Airbus A 380 and many more
as such.