If true it shows just how much the airport has given in to Ryanair who had the airport over a barrell.
In all seriousness it's been Glasgow-Prestwick in every BOAC / BA, Trans Canada / Air Canada and Northwest Orient / NWA marketing literature since the year dot. That particular branding has nothing whatsoever to do with Ryanair. Only in Ayrshire would it still annoy people to be associated with a wierd foreign place like....Glasgow.
You're not going to get a better name than Glasgow Prestwick, it's apt, more so with the M77. Only the tweedy chaps at the Robert Burns Society would say otherwise.
"Where shall we go Helmut?"
"Burns International!"
"Only if Smithers is there to greet us. I thought Springfield was fictional. Excellent"
D'oooh!
Believe me, the people chuntering on about changing the name have no idea of the real underlying concerns around the business if they want to be spending their time on that sort of malarkey. There are far more important issues to be dealt with first.