PRESTWICK
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From: London UK
There is an extraordinarily illiterate press release from the tour operator on the Prestwick website
http://www.gpia.co.uk/DocLibrary/pdf...2007%201pm.pdf
http://www.gpia.co.uk/DocLibrary/pdf...2007%201pm.pdf
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From: Irvine
Transavia
Does anyone know for definate if Transavia is terminating the route from Prestwick to Amsterdam? On their website it is only bookable until the end of October.
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From: PRESTWICK
The best news for a while Seguro axeing GSW and pulling in BMI and Futura,there was a MPJ/Aviajet MD did the ACE yesterday due to tech problems again and that seems to have been the last straw lets hope they build from this and enjoy there 10th year at Prestwick in 2008
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From: Irvine
The station is quite cold and damp at the best of times and like the departure lounge, it really needs some work on it! I read somewhere a while ago that the powers that be were looking into adding an extra line into the station in order to accomodate express trains into Glasgow Central.
Does anyone know if Transavia are coming back to Prestwick next year? Other than Cork and Poznan, are there to be any new routes / airlines at Prestwick in the near future?
Does anyone know if Transavia are coming back to Prestwick next year? Other than Cork and Poznan, are there to be any new routes / airlines at Prestwick in the near future?
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From: Irvine
Why did it fail? There isn't any other low cost airline flying from the west coast to Amsterdam. And I saw loads of adverts for the route on billboards, Glasgow taxis, bus shelters etc so it's not as if the public weren't aware that Transavia were flying from Prestwick to Amsterdam. I'm sure that if there is a big enough low cost market from the west coast to Amsterdam then some airline will surely step in and operate the route either from Glasgow or Prestwick.
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From: Cloud Cookoo Land
AMS Low cost?
Don't know if anyone will take a stab at this again from the low cost sector.
Easyjet, Flyglobespan and now Transavia have all waved goodbye to the GLA/PIK to AMS route due to poor yealds. KLM looks like they have claimed back their exclusivity!
Easyjet, Flyglobespan and now Transavia have all waved goodbye to the GLA/PIK to AMS route due to poor yealds. KLM looks like they have claimed back their exclusivity!
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From: Isle of Thanet
From the last Infratil report:
Glasgow Prestwick handled 163,389 passengers during the month, up 1% on November 2006.
Growth against the prior year is a result of Ryanair services to Derry, Belfast and Kaunas, and Wizz Air's Katowice route.
Ryanair also launched a new three times weekly service to Budapest at the start of November which has performed well in its first month.
Further Ryanair expansion is considered unlikely after discussions about a significant future phase of growth ended as a result of being unable to reach mutually acceptable commercial terms.
Clearly they find Ryanair's terms, which they inherited, too oppressive.
Glasgow Prestwick handled 163,389 passengers during the month, up 1% on November 2006.
Growth against the prior year is a result of Ryanair services to Derry, Belfast and Kaunas, and Wizz Air's Katowice route.
Ryanair also launched a new three times weekly service to Budapest at the start of November which has performed well in its first month.
Further Ryanair expansion is considered unlikely after discussions about a significant future phase of growth ended as a result of being unable to reach mutually acceptable commercial terms.
Clearly they find Ryanair's terms, which they inherited, too oppressive.