Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow, is located in Ayrshire.

Both Campbeltown Airport and Glasgow Prestwick Airport at around are the closest airports in Scotland to Stranraer.

On 4 April 2002, Ryanair started flights to Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Launched with DC-8 equipment routing through Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland, frequency subsequently increased to four flights a week, while the intermediate stop was cut out.

The British Airports Authority ( BAA ) took control of the airport in 1975 and when BAA was privatised in the 1980s, Glasgow Airport began to offer flights to other places around the world, flights which previously were facilitated by Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was subsequently relegated as the city's secondary airport catering for low cost airlines and charter operators.

The political rows over Glasgow and Prestwick airports continued, with Prestwick enjoying a monopoly over transatlantic traffic, while Glasgow Airport was only allowed to handle UK and intra-European traffic.

The restrictions on Glasgow Airport were lifted and the transatlantic operators immediately moved from Prestwick, Glasgow Airport being renamed Glasgow International Airport.

Glasgow International also faces stiff competition from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which has reinvented itself as a low-cost hub for budget airlines and which has a direct rail link to Central Glasgow.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is Glasgow's second airport, it also serves the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 miles from the city centre of Glasgow.

In physical terms, Prestwick is Scotland's largest commercial airfield, although in passenger traffic terms it sits in fourth place after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow International, and Aberdeen Airport all of which are operated by BAA.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport from the air

* Glasgow International Airport

* Glasgow International Airport

After the war ended the base was closed, and part of the facility eventually became the present day Glasgow Airport.

Glasgow is served by Glasgow Airport and has daily commercial service to Billings.

Benbecula Airport on the island has daily flights to Glasgow, Stornoway and Barra.

* On June 30, 2007, a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane tanks crashed into the entrance of Glasgow International Airport.

The fleet doubled a year later, with one aircraft being based at Glasgow International Airport.

* Glasgow Airport Rail Link ( cancelled by Scottish Government )

They are used by through services via Manchester Oxford Road to North Wales, Liverpool, North West England, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and through services from Manchester Airport.

* The TransPennine North West services run from Manchester Airport to Preston via Bolton and Chorley half-hourly, with trains continuing to Blackpool North every hour, and Barrow-in-Furness or Windermere every two hours, and continue to Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central, some of which are combined with services to Windermere, Blackpool North and Barrow-in-Furness.

Completion of the M74 Extension means that there is a motorway going through the town, that will allow easier access to places such as Glasgow Airport and the English Border.

* Glasgow ( Glasgow Airport ( U. S .))

Glasgow International Airport () ( formerly Glasgow Abbotsinch Airport ) is an international airport in Scotland, located west of Glasgow city centre, near the towns of Paisley and Renfrew in Renfrewshire.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.

He is also associated with the first recorded instance of a cycling traffic offence, when a Glasgow newspaper in 1842 reported an accident in which an anonymous " gentleman from Dumfries-shire ... bestride a velocipede ... of ingenious design " knocked over a little girl in Glasgow and was fined five shillings.

Although, according to the Glasgow Coma Scale, a person with confusion is considered to be in the mildest coma.

Generally, a patient who is unable to voluntarily open the eyes, does not have a sleep-wake cycle, is unresponsive in spite of strong tactile ( painful ), or verbal stimuli and who generally scores between 3 to 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale is considered to be in coma.

More elaborate scales, such as the Glasgow Coma Scale, quantify an individual's reactions such as eye opening, movement and verbal response on a scale ; Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) is an indication of the extent of brain injury varying from 3 ( indicating severe brain injury and death ) to a maximum of 15 ( indicating mild or no brain injury ).

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

* 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The Herald, which is published in Glasgow, also covers Edinburgh.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

In Glasgow and the central areas of Scotland, the tradition is to hold Hogmanay parties involving singing, dancing, the eating of steak pie or stew, storytelling and drink ; these usually extend into the daylight hours of 1 January.

It is produced in Westfield, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire by A. G. Barr of Glasgow, since moving out of their original Parkhead factory in the mid-1990s, and at a second manufacturing site in Mansfield, England.

The name Irn-Bru is said to have originated during the re-building of Glasgow Central Station in 1901.

* 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow ( Clydebank ), Scotland.

* Minerva is featured in the logo of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland

On the other hand, the largely self-contained Merseyrail system is part of the National Rail network, and urban rail networks around Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and West Yorkshire consist entirely of National Rail services.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.