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

* International Christian College, Glasgow, Scotland

* Ewald, P. P., editor 50 Years of X-Ray Diffraction ( Reprinted in pdf format for the IUCr XVIII Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, International Union of Crystallography ).

Designs for various buildings for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition were not constructed, neither was his " Haus eines Kunstfreundes " ( Art Lover's House ) of the same year.

* Glasgow International Airport

* 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.

On 18 December 2007, to coincide with the UN International Migrants Day, the network carried out a co-ordinated blockade of Border and Immigration Agency ( now UK Border Agency ) offices in Bristol, Portsmouth, Newcastle and Glasgow to prevent dawn raids by immigration officers from taking place.

The faction began to publish its own bi-weekly newspaper called The International, a 4-page broadsheet published in Glasgow

* Glasgow International Piping Festival

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.

The aftermath of the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack

BAA embarked on a massive redevelopment plan for Glasgow International Airport in 1989.

By 1996, Glasgow International was handling over 5. 5 million passengers per annum, making it the fourth largest airport in the UK.

The Scottish Executive announced in 2002 that a rail line-known as the Glasgow Airport Rail Link ( GARL )-would be built from Glasgow Central station to 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.

* 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 .))

The following table lists the rolling stock which forms the core passenger service pattern on the WCML serving its principal termini ; it is not exhaustive since many other types use sections of the WCML network as part of other routes-notable examples include the InterCity 125 HST on certain CrossCountry services ( primarily through the West Midlands area ) and the East Coast InterCity 225 between Edinburgh and Glasgow Central.

" Its stations are listed as serving " London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow.

Partick railway station is a trunk station serving as an interchange between the local rail, Glasgow Subway and local bus systems.

He was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1950 as GUSNA's candidate, serving until 1953 ; he was also awarded a honorary Doctorate of Laws by the university in 1951.

It is the primary airport serving the Greater Glasgow conurbation and is also the principal transatlantic and direct longhaul entry airport into Scotland.

Virginia ( 1913 ) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family.

In 1962 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow by the students, serving until 1965.

The airline was also the largest UK domestic operator, serving major British cities, including London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as remote areas of the British Isles such as the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Although it continued to use Northolt as a London terminal for domestic flights serving Manchester, Edinburgh, Renfrew ( Glasgow ), Aberdeen, Belfast and the Channel Islands which by that time were mainly operated by 36-seater " Admiral " class Vikings, these were wound down in favour of concentrating all of BEA's London flights at Heathrow.

Following successful trials of de Havilland's Heron Series 1 demonstrator G-ALZL on BEA's Channel Islands routes during the second half of 1951, the airline placed an order for two 1B series aircraft to replace " Islander " class Rapides on its Glasgow – Barra route as it was well-suited to serving restricted airfields in difficult weather conditions.

The central section-the uncompleted Glasgow Inner Ring Road-contains numerous junctions serving local communities including Cowcaddens, Garnethill, Kelvingrove and Anderston.

Continuing west, it bypasses Renfrew and Paisley ( carrying traffic directly over what was the main runway at Renfrew Airport, closed in 1966 ) before serving Glasgow International Airport, running to the south of Erskine, and terminating at Langbank, around east of Greenock.

STV North is owned and operated by STV Group plc ( formerly SMG plc ), which also owns another Scottish ITV franchise, Scottish Television ( now known as STV Central off-air ), based in Glasgow and serving Central Scotland.

In 1980, she was elected to Glasgow District Council, serving as Vice-Convener of the Finance Committee from then until 1984, when she became Convener of the Personnel Committee.

He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St John's, Glasgow ( 1866-1870 ), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr RS Candlish at Free St Georges.

Before World War II he was on the editorial staff of the Glasgow Herald, and after the war he joined the Foreign Office, serving in diplomatic posts in Vienna, the Middle East, and, from 1953, in Whitehall — where he specialised in economic and defence intelligence work.

Glasgow University Union ( GUU ) is one of the largest and oldest students ' unions in the UK, serving students and alumni of the University of Glasgow since 1885.

Following service in the British Army in the First World War ( during which he lost an eye, serving in the famous Black Watch regiment ) he studied at the University of Glasgow.

Built before the Reformation from the late 12th century onwards and serving as the seat of the Bishop and later the Archbishop of Glasgow, the building is a superb example of Scottish Gothic architecture.

The three stations were North Bridge, opened on 22 June 1846 by the North British Railway ; General, opened on 17 May 1847 by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; and Canal Street, opened on 17 May 1847 by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway, serving Leith and Granton via a long rope-hauled tunnel under the New Town.

Her later experiences included private broadcasting gigs in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and Toronto before serving with the CBC in Fredericton, Halifax, Edmonton, Ottawa and Toronto.

In 1926 he was serving as Assistant Medical Officer, Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital.