Glasgow Prestwick Airport
Prestwick, United Kingdom
Glasgow Prestwick Airport (IATA: PIK, ICAO: EGPK) is an international airport serving the west of Scotland, situated 1 mile (2 km) northeast of the town of Prestwick, and 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the less busy of the two airports serving the western part of Scotland's Central Belt, after Glasgow Airport in Renfrewshire, within the Greater Glasgow conurbation. The airport serves the urban cluster surrounding Ayr, including Kilmarnock, Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon, Saltcoats, Stevenston, Kilwinning, and Prestwick itself. The airport is Scotland's fifth-busiest in terms of passenger traffic, although it is the largest in terms of land area. Passenger traffic peaked at 2.4 million in 2007 following a decade of rapid growth, driven in part by the boom in low-cost carriers, particularly Ryanair, which uses the airport as an operating base. In recent years, passenger traffic has declined; around 670,000 passengers passed through the airport in 2016. There has been public debate over the association of the airport with Glasgow, which is 32 miles (51 km) away from the airport. As a result, suggestions have been made for the airport to be renamed Robert Burns Intern
Airport data from the OpenFlights open database.