Sun-seeking Scots head for Glasgow Prestwick

27 October 2009
Glasgow Prestwick is number one for sun-seeking Scots this winter, say airport owners Infratil. Four new Ryanair low-cost winter sun routes - Alicante, Arrecife (Lanzarote), Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) and Palma - are launching this week from the airport.

This morning (October 27), over one hundred and seventy Scots flew out on the first of the four inaugurals to Las Palmas.

Firsr to check in for the flight were the McCrindle family from Cumnock, Ayrshire. Dad Ian, Mum Liz and sons Ian and David were heading off for their annual holiday. Ian said: “I’m delighted that four of us are flying to Gran Canaria for just over £400 return including taxes and luggage when before Ryanair’s new route started we would have paid double that amount.”

“With a new route to Ibiza due to start in March next year, extra flights to Faro, Malaga and Tenerife and our well-established routes to Girona and Reus, Glasgow Prestwick offers the widest choice and the lowest fares for winter sun bar none,” said the group’s Chief Commercial Officer Graeme Sweenie.

The routes confirm Ryanair’s position as the most popular airline flying to the sun from Scotland.

Added Mr Sweenie: “These new routes are a huge vote of confidence in Glasgow Prestwick by Europe’s largest low fares airline. Just half an hour from Glasgow city centre, we offer great flight times, quick, hassle free check-in, cheap parking and 50% discount on rail travel to/from anywhere in Scotland.”

Mr Sweenie said the Canary Islands are set to be extremely popular this season.

Lying off the north-west coast of Africa, the scenery is incredibly varied, but all offer sand, sea and long hours of unbroken sunshine.

“For cheap winter sun, for Lanzarote's volcanic landscape, for Gran Canaria's mountainous scenery and for Tenerife’s year-round appeal, the Canaries are unbeatable,” he said.