Analysis of Glasgow Airport Planning and Management Strategies

This report provides an overview of Glasgow Airport's planning and management strategies. It begins with the airport's location and catchment area, highlighting its significant growth and importance. The report details the airport's major customers, the types of aircraft it handles, and forecasts future air traffic growth, including passenger and cargo movements. It discusses planned infrastructure developments such as runway and taxiway construction, and apron expansions to accommodate different types of aircraft. The report also examines the potential impact of these developments on stakeholders, including environmental and economic considerations. The report references key sources to support its analysis of the airport's current operations and future plans.

AIRPORT PLANNING
MANAGMENT
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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.

FUTURE OF THE AIRPORT
Air Traffic of the Airport for the next 15-30 years
 The Air traffic Growth in the near future and especially after 15 to 20 years will
force the management of the Airport to develop the infrastructure of the airport in a
proper and effective process (Budd and Ison 2018). It’s is expected that the number
of air passengers will grow to a whooping amount of 15 million annually.
Future Passengers and Aircrafts
 Apart from the passengers of Glasgow a considerable amount of people will take the
service from the cities of Britain and Scotland (glasgowairport.com 2019).
Movements
 There will be a growth in the movement of the customer traffic as well as the cargo
movements.

PLANNING PROJECT
Runway
 Rapid access and exit taxiways may have to be constructed towards the end of the period in
2020 in order to meet the forecasted peak movements of runways (Budd and Ison 2018).
Taxiway
 The construction of runways will require the construction of new taxiways in order to enhance
the smooth operation of the aircrafts (glasgowairport.com 2019).
Apron
 There will be a number of different kinds of low cost carriers as well as normal carriers that
will be operating from the airport in the near future (Budd and Ison 2018). Therefore the airport
authorities have to construct new Aprons especially for jumbo jets.

IMPACT ON STAKEHOLDERS
 The new Airport plan will lead to different impacts on the stakeholders. The
new terminal will be coming near to a reserve which can lead to
environmental damage.
 According to, Graham (2016) the New Terminal must also clear all the
legal and economical hurdles to ensure smooth operations for the future.
 The improvement of the drainage system and the reduction in air pollution
can help the improvement of the airport

REFERENCES
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Air Transport Management (pp. 48-59). Routledge.
 Graham, A., 2016. Airport strategies to gain competitive advantage. In Airport
Competition (pp. 109-122). Routledge.
 Margaryan, A., Littlejohn, A. and Stanton, N.A., 2017. Research and development
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