Airport News
Flights increase to Ireland from Glasgow Airport
Sun, 31 Jan, 2010
Glasgow Airport has received a huge boost to its services to Ireland after a deal was agreed with Aer Lingus and Aer Arran.
This new agreement means that there will now be 12 flights each week to Ireland with the Irish airlines from the airport, with three of them being new services to Cork.
The remaining journeys will be trips to Dublin, with all additional services commencing from March 28th.
It is hoped that the new routes will promote greater tourism and business links between the two countries, with the new journeys generating approximately 13,000 more visits from leisure travellers to the Scottish city.
Amanda McMillan, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said that Ireland is one of Scotland's biggest overseas tourist markets and that passengers who depart from the airport for Cork, which is a new destination for the hub, can enjoy a "vibrant, cosmopolitan" city.
Glasgow Airport has recently benefitted from a range of new services, including the introduction of Kiss Flights, which will be taking travellers to destinations in countries including Greece, Turkey and Spain.