PRESTWICK

[WHBM]

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

[james170969]

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.

[virginblue]

There is an extraordinarily illiterate press release

Indeed. Astonishing.

[rumair999]

another shocking weekend at PIK - Sat LPA still to depart ! wonder who is helping them out - looks like they need it !

[james170969]

I was on Transavia's website last night. There are many routes which are only bookable to the end of October. Maybe they just haven't loaded them onto their system yet.

[airhumberside]

What routes are they - I imagine many of Transavia routes (such as to Greece) are seasonal and wont run in the winter, so will not be on sale beyond October

[james170969]

There's really loads of them and a lot of those you wouldn't think of as seasonal. It's probably best to check on their website.

[airhumberside]

With the exception of Lisbon (which is only once weekly anyway), all of the European city destinations are bookable from AMS I afraid, except PIK

[honest man]

Its certainly gone which is a shame a good route lost i have to say Transavia did market it all i can say is Prestwick will go on despite it ive seen a few airlines come and go

[allanmack]

And yet they continue to advertise in today's Herald.

[honest man]

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

[allanmack]

Rail Station Upgrade

Rumour has it that £650000 has been earmarked for an upgrade of Prestwick's dedicated Rail Station including better waiting areas and toilets. Can anyone confirm?

[Skipness One Echo]

Not sure it really needs toilets as the Terminal is right there but the structure needs some TLC as the roof is badly leaking.....

[james170969]

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?

[GW76]

The Transavia experiment failed and they will not be back.

[james170969]

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.

[Callsign Kilo]

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!

[Fly Through]

Zoom

Curious for any info about the 3 visits by Zoom today?
FT

[james170969]

Does anyone know why Ryanair are reducing the number of flights to and from Prestwick and now flying to five new European destinations from Edinburgh? What are their long term plans for Prestwick I wonder?

[Jes]

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.