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Old 21st Jun 2018, 06:30
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by ORAC
But the airport’s senior figures insisted there was a chance of it becoming a spaceport or that it could become a “logistics hub” for the building of the planned third runway at Heathrow.
Yes, Prestwick will be invaluable when they start to airfreight in all that concrete and aggregate ...

Joking aside, while it will be sad to see PIK get sold off for housing or a business park, the massive growth of GLA and EDI combined with improvements in aircraft range and economics mean that its continued existence as an airport is going to be very hard to justify.
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