Prestwick Airport

Scotland’s fastest growing airport is located less than ten minutes drive from Coodham, 3 miles from Troon and 32 miles from Glasgow city centre - a 45 minute journey by train.

The present site was designed to accommodate three million passengers a year and unveiled by Queen Elizabeth in 1964. The development consisted of a new terminal building, freight building, runway extension and control tower.

The airport now boasts; 35 european transits serviced by low-cost airlines, a railway station, quick and hassle free check-in facilities, duty-free shopping, a food court, two bars, an arcade, Wi-Fi internet access and a shuttle service between airports and city centres, offering sight-seeing tours. On the north side of the airport is the palace of engineering which was moved from its Glasgow site, Bellahouston Park, in 1941 and rebuilt brick by brick.

The site has been home to aviation progress since 1913, ten years after the Wright brothers took to the air. It became a major british airport during the Second World War, accomodating up to 300 American aircraft each day under the lend lease programme. Aircraft production continued under Scottish Aviation Ltd until 1998.

Today, the airport is better equipped to cope with the demands of international fliers than ever before with frequent flights to London and Dublin, and to thirty other destinations including Rome and Paris.

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