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Glasgow Prestwick Airport
Glasgow Prestwick Airport is an airport serving the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and from the city centre of Glasgow.〔 It is the second busiest of the two airports serving Glasgow, with the busiest being Glasgow Airport which is situated within the city itself.
Glasgow Prestwick is Scotland's fourth busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Airport, and Aberdeen Airport, although it is the largest in terms of land area. Passenger traffic peaked at 2.4 million in 2007 following a decade of rapid growth, driven in part by the boom in no-frills airlines, particularly Ryanair which uses the airport as an operating base. In recent years, passenger traffic has declined, with around 900,000 passengers passing through the airport in 2014.〔
==History==
The airport began life around 1934 – primarily as a training airfield – with a hangar, offices and control tower were constructed by the end of 1935. The airport's original owner was David Fowler McIntyre, also the owner of Scottish Aviation with backing from the then Duke of Hamilton. MacIntyre and Hamilton were the first aviators to fly over Mount Everest in 1933.
In 1938 passenger facilities were added. These were used until further investment made Prestwick compatible with jet transportation. The October 1946 USAAF diagram shows runway 14/32 with runway 8/26 crossing just west of its midpoint. In 1958 runway 13/31 was long; in May 1960 the extension to opened. A parallel taxiway, link road and an all-new terminal building were opened by the Queen Mother in 1964. The extension of Runway 13/31 caused considerable disruption to road users as the main road from Monkton into Prestwick was now crossing the tarmac of the existing runway. This was controlled by a "level crossing" system until the new perimeter road was completed.〔Berry, P (2005) Prestwick Airport and Scottish Aviation〕 In November 2013, the main runway was re-designated from 13/31 to 12/30 due to the drifting of the magnetic north pole having moved so much that it required the airport's runway to be re-numbered.
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