Originally Posted by gconatyuk
I see what you mean now. The NATS website state that they cover 15 of the UKs major airports of which Prestwick is not listed, however, if you visit the NATS careers website and roll over the 'working environment' tab it is listed in there as:
Prestwick And Oceanic (Are Control Centre)
Glasgow (Control Tower)
http://natscareers.co.uk/indexfs.asp?id=200676
It could just be me however because i thought Glasgow only had one airport which was Glasgow Prestwick. If that is the case then i must apologise
Prestwick Area Control Centre is not Prestwick airport, its the area control centre which controls aircraft over the whole of the Scottish FIR. The Oceanic control centre is co-located within the Prestwick Control Centre.
Glasgow airport is just that, Glasgow, not Glasgow Prestwick. Usual confusion when far away airports try and pull the wool over peoples eyes by using names which make you think they're close to the city they have added the name to the airport name. Prestwick is located quite a way South of Glasgow, about an hour on the train.
BD