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.