Edinburgh, Scotland’s busiest airport, had a +0.6% rise in passengers in July, compared to July 2009, to 961,000 partly due to Ryanair. But Glasgow had a fall in passengers of - 3.6% to 789,000 and Aberdeen had a fall of - 4.1% to 270,000. Overall, BAA’s UK airports had a rise in passengers in July of only +0.3%. BAA’s 6 UK airports handled nearly 58.5 million passengers in the first seven months of this year - a 4.5% drop on the January-July 2009 total.
26.3.2010Â (Down to Earth press release - Scotland)
A High Court Ruling on Heathrow 3rd Runway throws expansion plans at Scottish airports into question. Councils, green groups and residents near airports across the UK celebrate victory and call on Government to scrap third runway
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Plans to expand Edinburgh, Glasgow and other Scottish airports were thrown into serious doubt [...]
24.3.2009 (Edinburgh Evening News) Independent Lothians MSP Margo MacDonald is urging closer co-operation between Edinburgh and Glasgow airports as an alternative to the Competition Commission’s demand that one of them should be sold off. She claims it makes more strategic sense for the two Central Belt airports to work together [...]
March 19, 2009  MANCHESTER Airport Group (MAG) is plotting to bid for Edinburgh or Glasgow Airports in addition to its offer for Gatwick, sources confirmed today. MAG - which already owns East Midlands, Humberside and Bournemouth Airports as well as Manchester - is eyeing a swoop north of the border after the Competition Commission ordered [...]
20.3.2009 (Guardian)   BAA will be selling three of its biggest airports into a market that is unrecognisable from nearly three years ago, when its indebted owners bought Britain’s largest airports group for £10.3bn with a highly leveraged bid.
The Spanish-owned firm has already pushed back the deadline for selling Gatwick airport after bidders encountered difficulties raising [...]
19 March 2009Â Â Â Â Â (Edinburgh Evening News)Â Competition watchdogs today stepped back from ordering BAA to sell Edinburgh airport. Instead, the company will be given a choice of disposing of either Edinburgh or Glasgow in a bid to make air travel to and from the central belt more competitive.
BAA said it was “disappointed” the Competition Commission [...]
16.3.2009 (Herald)  The UK’s biggest airport operator is expected to be told this week whether it must sell off Glasgow International or Edinburgh Airport as part of a move to break up its dominance of the aviation market.  BAA, which also owns Heathrow and Aberdeen airports among its seven-strong UK portfolio, is likely to be [...]
16.3.2009 (Herald)  The decline in air travel has been underlined by new figures which show that Scotland’s airports lost the equivalent of more than 2000 passengers a day during 2008.    New statistics also show that passenger numbers across all UK airports fell last year for the first time since 1991 - the height of the [...]
11 February 2009  (Edinburgh Herald)     EDINBURGH Airport bosses have released the first pictures of a £40 million extension which they say will help deal with an increase in passenger numbers and create hundreds of new jobs.  BAA is planning a large new departure lounge, with a purpose-built security screening area.   This will allow up to [...]