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Sharp rise in disorder and crime incidents at Glasgow Airport
Paisley Daily Express
|August 26, 2025
Incidents at Glasgow Airport have contributed to crime and disorder rocketing at Scottish airports in the past two years.
Shock new figures show incidents rose by 41 percent between 2022 and last year after holidaymakers returned to the skies following lockdown.
And an expert believes there is a direct connection with people getting drunk in airports.
Police officers attended 5,598 incidents last year at 16 of the country’s airports - including Glasgow and Edinburgh - compared to 5,075 in 2023 and 3,989 in 2022, a 41 percent increase in three years.
At Glasgow Airport incidents investigated by the police rose from 1,154 to 1,526 in the same period.
Recent crimes and disturbances include a man arrested on a flight from Luton to Glasgow last month allegedly shouting “Death to Trump”.
The same figures, released by Police Scotland under Freedom of Information, show a rise in sex attacks on flights in and out of Glasgow and at Glasgow Airport itself.
Three sexual assaults were recorded on flights in and out of the airport last year compared to one in 2022 and one in 2023.
This story is from the August 26, 2025 edition of Paisley Daily Express.
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