Glasgow Prestwick Airport numbers keep climbing
The number of people using Glasgow Prestwick continues to climb, with 118,634 passengers passing through the airport in May, a 14% increase on the same month last year.
May’s numbers were approximately 6,500 up on those of April this year, representing the airport’s eighth consecutive month of year-on-year passenger growth.
Chief Executive Iain Cochrane said May's strong performance maintains the upwards trend in 2013 which started with January passenger numbers increasing by 31% over January 2012.
Ryanair has twenty-seven low-cost routes to nine countries around Europe from the airport. Mr Cochrane said May, the second full month of the airline's summer programme, was extremely encouraging and augured well for the rest of the year.
"I believe there are a number of reasons why our numbers keep rising at Prestwick. We're welcoming, convenient, affordable and the only airport in Scotland with its own railway station, offering all passengers half-price rail travel from/to anywhere in Scotland.
“Summer numbers here will be further boosted by Ryanair’s decision to add more flights to Malaga, Faro and Alicante in July. And as more Scots head for their summer holidays in June, July and August to destinations such as Spain, Italy and Poland, we expect to see passenger volumes continuing to increase over last year.”