Glasgow Prestwick Airport

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The Glasgow Prestwick Airport (IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK; engl. Glasgow Prestwick Airport ) is an international airport near Prestwick in Scotland. It is mainly used by low cost airlines and cargo flights and is the third largest airport in the country after the Edinburgh Airport and the more central Glasgow International Airport.

The airport is also used as a strategic military base tank, in the past as a civil and military training airport. The Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, where it maintains a SAR unit with Sea King helicopters, they referred to the station as a Royal Naval Air Station Prestwick, short RNAS Prestwick.

Location and Transport

The airport is located one kilometer north of Prestwick in Ayrshire and 46 km southwest of the Scottish city of Glasgow. He has not only a connection to the highway A79 also has its own airport railway station, on the First ScotRail regular services to Glasgow and Ayr offers. In addition, there are the lines X77 and X100 is a bus service to Glasgow.

History

Glasgow -Prestwick Scotland's only official airport for transatlantic flights until finally its capacity in 1992 were no longer sufficient and Glasgow's international airport, the new hub for overseas flights, with daily flights to and from the Americas, Europe and Asia.

In November 2013, the previous operator, the New Zealand investment company Infratil, the loss-making airport sold for a symbolic price of one pound to the Scottish Government.

Airlines and destinations

The Irish budget airline Ryanair operates a base here and is in addition to some seasonal holiday charter airport primary users. Flew are some regional destinations as well as multiple targets in eastern and southern Europe, including Riga, Malta and Rome. German -speaking targets are being, as well as long-haul, non-operation.