Glasgow Prestwick Airport

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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

Flying recently Prestwick-Pisa we found the only flight leaves at about 7am so the half-price train service isn't much use. There is apparently a bus leaving Edinburgh Waverley at 300am to meet this flight but it isn't well advertised and we would have had to get up at 2am or probably never go to bed. We paid £45 for 12 days parking.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

It is a pity this airport has managed to survive. It is located in the wrong place. Oh for the days when cheap flights from GO to Italy were possible using Glasgow Airport. The links to Glasgow could be good if there was an integrated transport policy. I wonder if John Prescott or Tony Blair ever find themselves just missing the last train ? What is the point in the last train leaving just before the last planes arrive. The food and drink are poor value. The extra charge for a bottomless coke seems good at first sight but once you taste the coke you will understand why they will let you refill it as often as you want. One glass is all you will ever drink !
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Having just used PIK the checkin desks and area are been modernised which means that 70 pc of the checkin desks are behind a wooden fence leaving 4 desks to checkin the flights resulting in a rather crowded area at times this is due to continue until april. This also means that the escalator from the railway overbridge is also fenced off you have to follow a corrider above
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

Prestwick is my 'local' airport and I use it more than any other. The terminal building was built in the sixties and remained chronically underused for many years. Government interference stated that all of Scotland's transatlantic flights should land at Prestwick and not surprisingly few airlines took them up on the offer. This restriction was removed in the early nineties and it seemed as though Prestwick might be closed for ever. However with new owners touting for buisness Ryanair entered the scene and the airport has not looked back. Plenty of money has been spent in making the airport a viable alternative to the much more handily placed Glasgow International. Firstly a rail station was built on site giving passengers two trains to central Glasgow per hour. Car parks were expanded whilst internally a number of changes were made. Overall though the terminal is showing its age and such things as check-in have a distinctly low-tech feel to them. However the staff are courteous and the queues move quickly. Groundside catering has improved lately though the grandly named 'Graceland' bar (Prestwick is the only place in Britain where Elvis Presley is known to have set foot) has gone. Airside is an odd experience. You a channeled through the duty free shop (everything except booze and tobacco available to all passengers) to the waiting area which is below the level of the aircraft stands. It can get a bit crowded in here and very messy if a number of flights are scheduled at the same time. As most flights are with Ryanair the rush for unreserved seating leads to long queues through the one door that leads to the aircraft gates. Ryanair are supposed to have a priority system for boarding but no one pays the slightest bit of notice to it. Once through the door you walk to the appropriate gate underground emerging up the stairs on the tarmac for a short walk to the aircraft. On your return another walk brings you to the bagage reclaim which can be either very quick indeed or annoyingly slow depending on your luck. The worst part of the experience is paying the car parking fees which are huge. Book in advance if you can or better still use the train. Overall though Prestwick is not a bad airport to use and access will be much better next year when the road to Glasgow is upgraded to motorway standard.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

Glasgow Prestwick is an excellent asset to the city of Glasgow mainly due to the expansion of Ryanair European flights at the airport train links to downtown Glasgow are good and quick. The airport offers good opportunity for scottish travellers to enjoy cheap city breaks and also brings more visitors to Glasgow from overseas.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

The airport is very small three flights at check-in and the place becomes really crowded. Doesn't have the same choice as Glasgow and Edinburgh but for budget airlines is a gem.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

I have recently used the much underused and underated other International Airport of Glasgow at Prestwick. Although the airport is about 30miles from Glasgow the access is trouble free and reliable in the form of a train service and motorway both leading to Glasgow. It may be a bit of extra hassle getting to airport but while other airports may be suffering ice and snow it is a good bet that the runway at Prestwick will be open due to it's mild micro climate. The airport is mainly used by Ryanair and charter aircraft. The airport is under private ownership and not BAA like most other UK airports. The interior of the airport is old but it is efficient no crowds and every process from checking in to boarding is hassle free. There are bars and restaurants and even an observation balcony. All in all quite pleasant and much under utilsed by the major carriers.
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Glasgow Prestwick Airport customer review

Presently enjoying a renaissance thanks to the Ryanair revolution Prestwick has become the rising star of Scotland's four major airports. When it was cast off by the British Airports Authority in 1991 following the big airlines' moving their transatlantic traffic to the more convenient pastures of Glasgow Intl. (GLA) Prestwick looked down and out. Today the airport is thriving thanks to its new found status as Glasgow's low cost hub. Prestwick is located 32 miles to the south west of Glasgow city centre and the good news is that there is a half-hourly train service which gets you there in about 40 minutes. Flash your ticket/itinerary at the ticket office and you will get half price rail travel to /from the airport's own railway station free rail travel to anywhere in Scotland during the first 6 months of a new route. Road links aren't very good as the airport is accessed via the notorious A77 to southern Glasgow although the road is at present being converted to motorway standard. What about the airport itself? Well the bad news is that not much has been invested in the 1964 vintage terminal building since the BAA sell-off. You board the plane from the tarmac - no fancy walkways here! There have been various tweaks over the years but overall the place is in need of a serious revamp. The good news is that things are slowly improving with new restaurants and bars being put in the main concourse but the airside shops and duty free are primitive. You won't complain at the prices though - although the food and drink is slightly dearer in the airport norm it's not exorbitant either. This is a nice airport overall and the choice of scheduled Ryanair flights direct rail link are without a doubt its biggest assets.
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