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Glasgow Airport is the busiest of Scotland's three main international airports. Over 40 airlines serve around 80 destinations and, in July 2004, it became the first Scottish airport to handle over one million passengers in a month. It is owned by BAA, the world's leading airport company, which also owns Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports.

In 1975 the British Airports Authority (BAA) took ownership of Glasgow Airport. When BAA was privatised in the late 1980s, as BAA plc, it consolidated its airport portfolio and sold Prestwick airport. The restrictions on Glasgow Airport were lifted and the transatlantic operators immediately moved from Prestwick; Glasgow Airport being renamed Glasgow International Airport. BAA embarked on a massive redevelopment plan for Glasgow International Airport in 1989.

An extended terminal building was created by building the new structure so that the original Basil Spence building is actually inside it. The original concrete arches which once looked onto Caledonia Road now form the facade of the check-in area. Glasgow International Airport now has 38 gates, bringing its capacity up to nine million passengers per year. In 2003 BAA completed redevelopment work on a satellite building (called "T2", formerly the St. Andrews Building), in order to provide a dedicated check-in facility for low cost airlines, principally Easyjet and MyTravel Airways.

By 1996, Glasgow Airport was handling 5.47 million passengers per annum, placing it fourth in the UK. In 2006, the airport handled 8.82 million terminal passengers, seventh highest in the UK, 0.21 million ahead of its nearest large competitor - Edinburgh Airport.

Major airlines using the airport include British Airways (BA), FlyBE, Easyjet, KLM, BMI Baby, Icelandair, Continental Airlines, SAS and FlyGlobespan.
The other international airport branded as a Glasgow destination is Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, situated 29 miles (46 km) from the city centre, serving low cost airlines and currently handling slightly more than a quarter of Glasgow Airport's traffic.