swings and roundabouts.. 15 years ago picture was very different, 15 years (even 10) in future the landscape will be very different. Just takes one small thing like sale of EDI, change of management, new low cost competitor, collapse of VS, fall out with DL, major recession, the @rse falling out of inbound tourism and things will change.
Enjoy things while they last Id say (esp ATL !)

No rail link, public money getting sent to PIK (laughable we have two commercial airports in a weak market), OTT covid restrictions that resulted in losses that'll never recover, no cut in APD, a green agenda that is firmly anti aviation.

The political and business environment is appalling, but that's only one part of it. Under Derek Provan's watch the airport has lost millions in traffic, the terminal is a dump that looks the same as it did decades ago, the public transport connectivity to Glasgow might even be weaker than EDI.

Ferrovial/Macquarie don't care. Its make a profit by spending as little as possible, to the detriment of the people who would actually need to use it. They've driven me to the train for UK travel and EDI for everything else. GIP and Dewar must be pissing themselves at the open goal they've been given.

I can't see it that way. Edinburgh is a stronger incoming market and Glasgow has historically been a stronger outgoing market. With the US dollar exchange rate heavily favouring inbound customers for the present, Edinburgh is bound to do better for US/Canada inbound traffic as barely anyone from the UK will be able to afford to go the other way! For much the same reason, the growth is from DL into the UK and not by VS into the US.

Westjet the latest to call it quits at GLA.

AGS need to get to **** before they do anymore damage.

…meanwhile, Air Transat expanding their GLA YYZ offering for next year up to 6/wk with mix A330 and A321 for S23. Perhaps more consistent than the WJ chopping and changing. Their plan to shift from YYZ is a little risky I might argue. YYC is even more seasonal than YYZ for this sort of market. WJ have a nice product and I did like their niche YHZ service.

The whole point is The WestJet Group is making Calgary its home base and exclusive global connecting hub with all its 787 "Dreamliners flying through YYC Calgary International Airport.

" means Calgary will be the only place where we will intentionally facilitate connections"

Friend recently flew Dublin to Vancouver with connection in Calgary

WestJet proved that local point to point GLA-YHZ does still have a place in the 2020s, perhaps a peak summer option for Transat to have a look at on the A321NEO?
That leaves GLA with no transatlantic long haul aside from Air Transat now?
Seeing that Ryanair haven't put summer 23 from PIK on sale yet, you'd hope GLA will at least try for a deal as negotiations continue?

Yes we are all aware what their point is. As I said it remains risky IMO and happy to review the success of it in a few years.

Time for a new entrant to the Canada - UK market?
 

Only 4 years ago Glasgow had seasonal weekly non stops from both Vancouver and Calgary. Montreal too for one season. WestJet's withdrawal to Calgary and Transat's abandonment of western Canada leaves big gaps in service. Even alternatives such as Icelandair ( once daily from Vancouver and Edmonton) are now not so frequent in a shorter season. No one in western Canada wants a transfer at Toronto, recently voted North America's worst transfer airport. I'd rather give Heathrow and Amsterdam a miss too. Maybe Dublin will be the gateway?

Actually I'm not sure you do, you said YYC is seasonal. YYC will be their international connecting hub so it's not for YYC alone but other parts of Canada incl ski market.

Security alert at Glasgow this morning due to a suspicious package in a passenger's luggage, with the navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal in attendance. Check-in and security areas evacuated.
From the Herald:
ongoing at 12.00

Glasgow Airport passengers evacuated amid police lockdown - BBC News

edit: staff and passengers allowed back into the terminal at 12.30. The item was found to be 'innocent in nature'

A380 back on Emirates' service from 26th March
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Finally some positive news for GLA. Onwards and upwards to twice daily

The second daily is landing at EDI I imagine...... ( 1/2 joking)

Yes it might be a joke that comes to bite GLA!! 😂😆. Not been through the airport for ages (as away in Australia) but when I pop in by in August I hope it has been spruced up a bit.

It hasn’t, its as bad as it was when you left… barring some Jet2 benidormer filled pubs 🙄

Meanwhile the Scottish EasyJet deckchairs continue to be shuffled. Venice gone, Lisbon in, (though why anyone would want to leave Lisbon at 0600 to return home is recipe for failure, if its going to be more outbound aimed).

Oh dear....dire! 🫣

After an absence of 13 years Greggs to return to Glasgow Airport in April.

To open in the former Cafe Mozzo near international arrivals with seating for 50, and an outdoor seating area.

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Says it all about GLA now really, sad, pretty much a backwater nowadays, why did it all go so wrong?

What is the need for such snobbery? Not everyone wants to eat at Caviar House at the airport. Greggs is also opening at LGW.