WITH more than 3000 aircraft movements each month, Prestwick
International is once again back on the world map of passenger and air
freight travel. An average week's flights show a variety of aircraft on
activities linked to destinations throughout the world.
One of the busiest is close to home -- Ryanair's Boeing 737 service to
Dublin, accounting for a total of 27 scheduled arrivals and departures
each week.
Passenger charter flights, mostly at weekends, go to destinations
which include the Algarve, Majorca, Minorca, the Canary Islands, Costa
Blanca, and Turkey. Jersey in the Channel Islands is another busy route.
PIK believe that destinations will have doubled in number by next year,
particularly to Mediterranean resorts.
Prestwick has also returned to the transatlantic passenger field with
Globespan operating to Toronto in Canada.
And a growing list of Boeing 747 cargo aircraft now pass through
Prestwick on a scheduled basis. Polar Air Cargo from New York passes
through Prestwick on its way to Moscow then continues round the world
via Taipei in Taiwan, Los Angeles and Ohio before returning to
Prestwick.
Cargolux fly from Singapore via Luxembourg then through to Seattle.
Another Cargolux service comes in from Houston in Texas before going on
to Luxembourg.
Lufthansa fly to Prestwick from Chicago then on to Frankfurt in
Germany.
Federal Express operate a DC10 flight from Newark in New Jersey to
Prestwick then on to Charles de Gaulle in Paris six days a week.
Prestwick's runway, the weather, and its back-up technical facilities
also set it high on the list for crew training or as a diversionary
airport.
A complete 12-month scan of Prestwick's aircraft movements shows a
total of over 81,000 listings, more than 50,000 of them test and
training movements. Busy categories include more than 3000 military
movements and a surprising 14,000 private and 10,000 aeroclub movements.
Prestwick is open and has to be that way 24 hours a day and 365 days a
year.
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