Glasgow International Airport (formerly Glasgow Abbotsinch Airport) is an international airport in Scotland, located 8 miles (13 km) south west of Glasgow city centre, near the towns of Paisleyand Renfrew in Renfrewshire. In 2010 the airport handled 6,548,865 passengers, ,making it the second busiest in Scotland, after Edinburgh Airport, and the eighth busiest airport in the United Kingdom. The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates five other UK airports. The Airport is a base for airlines such as BMI Regional, EasyJet,Flybe and Loganair, Jet2, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways, and also houses maintenance facilities for British Airways. Glasgow Airport was first opened in 1966 and originally only facilatated flights to other places in the United Kingdom and Europe. The British Airports Authority (BAA) took control of the airport in 1975 and after the privatization of BAA in the 1980s; Glasgow Airport began to offer flights to other places around the world, flights which previously were facilitated by Glasgow Prestwick Airport.