BAA to invest £12 million in T2 at Glasgow
Multi-million pound project to handle additional 90 flights a week
BAA Scotland is to invest £12 million in the development of a second terminal at Scotland’s busiest international airport.
Glasgow’s “T2”, scheduled to open in May 2004, is being introduced to meet rising demand, primarily from no-frills airlines, and will see Glasgow become the first major airport in Scotland to develop two terminals.
The development also includes four new aircraft parking stands, the introduction of a £1.8 million hold baggage screening system, with state-of-the-art x-ray systems, and a new facility to expand the airport’s recycling facilities.
Stephen Baxter, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: “This is an ambitious project and a significant investment on BAA’s part in our airline and traveller facilities.
“As Glasgow Airport gets busier, particularly over the next 12 months, there is a need for new terminal capacity to meet the new demand from our new services.
“We are putting that capacity in now, ahead of the need, to ensure a straightforward and efficient hand-over to the airlines in May.”
The project will see the complete renovation of Glasgow Airport’s St Andrew’s building, with floor space doubling and an additional nine check-in desks installed, taking T2’s total check-in desks to 25 and the airport’s to 53. T2 will be connected directly to the main terminal building with a covered walkway.
Donal Dowds, managing director of BAA Scotland, said: “This is a further considerable investment in Glasgow Airport’s infrastructure and is part of our wider, £200 million development programme at the airport to increase capacity in line with the expected long-term growth in demand.
“Over the next two years, BAA Scotland will be investing the equivalent of more than £1 million a week in Scotland’s main airports at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, reinforcing this company’s commitment to Scotland and to providing high-quality facilities and a strong direct international route network, supporting our communities, the economy, the business world and the tourism industry.”
Notes to editors
· Glasgow International Airport is Scotland’s busiest airport, handling more than 8.1 million passengers a year.
· Glasgow Airport is Scotland’s principal long-haul gateway, New York year-round and with summer only services to Chicago and Toronto. New services are soon to be launched to Dubai and Philadelphia.
· Next summer, Glasgow Airport will handle 90 additional flights a week and serve 21 new destinations. There will be five new carriers with a presence at Glasgow.
· BAA Scotland has invested more than £200 million at Glasgow in the last ten years and plans to invest a similar sum over the next decade. This investment costs the taxpayer nothing.
· A Fraser of Allander Institute report, published in 2002, showed that under BAA’s leadership and management, Glasgow Airport contributes £704 million a year to the Scottish economy and supports nearly 20,000 direct and in-direct jobs.
· BAA will invest the equivalent of more than £1m a week in Scotland’s airports over the next two years
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January 31, 2004 at 2:59 pm