Glasgow-Prestwick Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport, also identified by the codes IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK, is a public air terminal. It serves the west of Scotland, arranged one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) upper east of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 miles (51 km) from the downtown area of Glasgow. It is the less occupied of the two air terminals serving the zone, with the busier being Glasgow Airport, which is inside the Greater Glasgow conurbation itself (situated in the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire).

Glasgow-Prestwick Airport

A summary of Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport, also identified by the codes IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK, is a public air terminal. It serves the west of Scotland, arranged one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) upper east of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 miles (51 km) from the downtown area of Glasgow. It is the less occupied of the two air terminals serving the zone, with the busier being Glasgow Airport, which is inside the Greater Glasgow conurbation itself (situated in the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire).

Glasgow Prestwick is Scotland's fifth-busiest air terminal as far as traveler traffic, after Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Inverness, although it is the biggest as now as land territory. Traveler traffic crested at 2.4 million out of 2007 after a time of fast development, driven to a limited extent by the blast in ease bearers, notably Ryanair, which utilizes the air terminal as a working base. Lately, traveler traffic has declined; around 670,000 travelers went through the air terminal in 2016.

The capacity of PIK Airport

The Airport added traveler offices in 1938. And PIK used them until further speculation made Prestwick perfect with stream transportation. The October 1946 USAAF chart shows 6,600 feet (2,000 m) runway 14/32 with 4,500 feet (1,400 m) runway 8/26 intersection only west of its midpoint. In 1958, runway 13/31 was 7,000 feet (2,100 m) long; in May 1960, the runway's expansion to 9,800 feet (3,000 m) opened.