GLASGOW Airport has reported its busiest June for five years thanks to more passengers jetting off abroad for sunshine breaks.
Passengers numbers rose by 5.4% to 773,900, boosted by increases in domestic and international traffic.
The number of people was boosted by the Scottish school summer holidays falling before the end of the month.
That led to many families flying off directly or connecting to other destinations via Heathrow in the final days of June.
The terminal actually saw 113,000 passing through it in the final weekend of the month as the airport confirmed overall domestic traffic was up 5.7% with international by 5.2%.
Popular destinations included the Balearics, Canary Islands, Portugal and Turkey while long-haul routes also saw an increased passenger load.
Virgin Atlantic's direct flights to Florida, Canadian Affair's Toronto service and the Dubai flights from Emirates were all highlighted as having seen greater demand for seats.
A spokesman for Glasgow confirmed the start of July had continued to see large volumes of passengers passing through.
Earlier this week, Thomson Holidays launched its first Boeing Dreamliner flight from the airport with all 291-seats sold out for the trip to Cancun in Mexico.
The airport has also launched its new logo, inspired by the thistle and designed by Paisley agency Designline, as part of its £17 million upgrade of its main terminal ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Amanda McMillan, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: "It really is an exciting time for Glasgow Airport and it's particularly pleasing to follow the unveiling of our new logo and the launch of the Dreamliner's first Scottish flight with news of further passenger growth."
It was a similarly busy month at Aberdeen International Airport, where a 2.4% increase in helicopter traffic, along with additional international and domestic passengers, pushed the overall numbers up 8% to almost 315,000.
Nick Barton, managing director, said: "These figures are trending positively, which is encouraging to see.
"That said, we face continued and recently well-documented challenges from around the aviation sector, not least the on-going impacts from [air passenger duty], and as we are all aware a lot can happen in six months.
"We expect the second half of the year to be as challenging as the first."
Taking in the first six months of the year, passenger numbers at Glasgow are up 1.2% to more than 3.3 million.
Aberdeen is tracking 2% ahead between January and June, having carried more than 1.6 million passengers.
Glasgow's cargo operation also appears to be doing well, with some 1092 tonnes carried in June, an increase of 5.9% on the previous year.
That meant at the half–year point, cargo is 17.5% up having reached 5488 tonnes.
Aberdeen's cargo operation was more mixed, with 654 tonnes moved in June, a rise of 8.7%, but lagging the 2012 half-year figures by 2.1%, with 3659 tonnes so far in 2013.
The improvements seen at Aberdeen and Glasgow came after Edinburgh Airport posted a record for its June passenger numbers of 956,562 on Tuesday.
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