Prestwick Airport is one of which city's airports?
"in Italy, as well as Porto in Portugal using the Lithuanian charter airline Small Planet Airlines for the summer 2013 season. Iran Air used Manston as a fuel stop for flight 710 from Heathrow to Tehran due to fuel disputes in London, until 1 December 2011. On 22 December 2011, Flybe spokesman Niall Duffy announced that all Flybe services would cease from Manston Airport by 25 March 2012. On 8 March 2012, Infratil announced it would dispose of its European airport operations, placing Kent International and Glasgow-Prestwick Airports up for sale. Manston and Prestwick had been running at a loss,"
"especially for training Concorde pilots. Concorde became a semi-regular visitor to the airport. Prestwick still sees regular circuit training taking place, both military & commercial. The circuit aircraft usually are Boeing 757, Boeing 737 and the A320 Family. Military aircraft include the KC-10 Extender on fuel stops and the KDC10. Prestwick was also the first airport in Scotland at which the Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed. In the Second World War the RAF controlled trans-Atlantic flights from Prestwick. The United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) 1631st Air Base Squadron opened a base in 1952 on the site"
"Glasgow Prestwick International Airport and ferry routes to Dunoon, the Isle of Arran, Isle of Bute and Northern Ireland. Over the years there have been thirteen railway stations in Paisley and three rail lines that are now closed (The Paisley and Barrhead District Railway, the Barrhead Branch of the GSWR, and the Paisley and Renfrew Railway). Paisley Canal station and the Paisley Canal Line owe their names to the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal which occupied the route of the line until 1885, when it was filled in. Glasgow Airport, operated by AGS Airports, is Scotland's largest airport, located to"
"GPS tracking. The service, initially restricted to services within the borough, was expanded to cover Fishwick's 111 City Centre/Leyland route but was discontinued in 2011, and reinstated on some routes in 2013. Although not a public airport, Warton Aerodrome is an active airfield west of the city and is the airfield for the BAE Warton factory. BAE Samlesbury to the east of the town was an active aerodrome, with a gliding club, but today serves as a facility for BAE Systems and no longer supports flying activities. The nearest airports from Preston with scheduled service are Liverpool John Lennon Airport"
"lose its status as Scotland's primary transatlantic airport, Prestwick continues to handle US military flights. In July 2005, the airport was the main transport hub for world leaders attending the G8 conference in Gleneagles. The airport now caters to one low-cost airline, Ryanair. In addition, BAE Systems, Goodrich Corporation, Spirit AeroSystems and GE Aircraft Engines have maintenance/manufacturing facilities adjacent to the airfield. Ryanair also has maintenance facilities at Prestwick. Prestwick has a Royal Navy Air Station, also known as HMS Gannet, where Sea King search and rescue helicopters are stationed. Prestwick is a major air traffic control centre, with both"
"Area Control Centre in Swanwick, Hampshire. Prestwick Airport was established on 17 February 1936 as a base for Scottish Aviation Limited. During the Second World War, Prestwick was used an eastern terminus for the North Atlantic air ferry route, one of a series of routes over which military aircraft were ferried from the United States and Canada to Great Britain, to support the war in Europe. A large number of heavy bombers, fighter aircraft and aircraft carrying diplomatic and VIP passengers transited through the airfield. RAF Ferry Command was formed on 20 July 1941 to take control of North Atlantic"
"Gatwick Airport Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe. Until 2017, it was the busiest single-use runway airport in the world covering a total area of 674 Hectares. Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal,"
"this tough time in the airport's history, saying that ""if it hadn't been for Matthew Hudson the airport wouldn't be here today"". In 1994, Irish budget airline Ryanair opened a route to the airport from Dublin, followed by a second route in 1995 to London Stansted. In 1998, a third route to Paris-Beauvais was introduced and Prestwick Airport was subsequently sold by Hudson to the Scottish transport company Stagecoach Group, which then sold it to Infratil in 2001. The resulting rapid growth of Ryanair's low-cost routes saw a peak in passenger numbers, with Prestwick carrying over 1,000,000 passengers in 2001."
"the re-opening of some of the older canals. However, these plans (collectively known as the Riverworks), unlike the Tithebarn project, has yet to undergo public consultation, and has already raised flooding and loss of green space concerns. There are no public airports in Preston, but Warton Aerodrome on the western outskirts of the city is an active airfield and serves the BAE Warton Factory. On the eastern outskirts was the former Samlesbury Aerodrome, but now still serves as a facility for BAE Systems. There are three nearby airports: Transport in Preston Preston is a city in Lancashire, around North-west of"
"the commission recognised Gatwick's benefits and relatively less environmental consequences than Heathrow, they felt the economic benefits of Gatwick vs. Heathrow were not as great, nor as broad-ranging. Gatwick are disputing the findings. <br> Gatwick Airport Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe. Until 2017, it was the busiest single-use runway airport in the world covering a total area"
"the Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre (controlling 70% of UK airspace) and Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Centre (Shanwick Oceanic Control - responsible for air traffic over the eastern half of the North Atlantic) located at the NATS owned 'Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre'. Prestwick is on the Ayrshire Coast Line between Glasgow Central and Ayr. Three trains per hour call at both and , with additional services at peak times. Glasgow is approximately 50 minutes from Prestwick by rail. The line continues south to the port of Stranraer on the Wigtownshire coast, but a change of trains at Ayr"
"is at capacity and congested during peak operations. The plan proposes ""a central pier that provides adequate circulation and waiting space prior to boarding the aircraft"" to cope with a continuing increase in passenger departures. It also proposed raising the number of aircraft stands from 6 to 12. An Airbus A380 made an approach and go round at Prestwick Airport for the first time on 5 September 2009. On 8 March 2012 the airport owner Infratil announced that they planned to sell the airfield. The airport remained unsold until October 2013 when the Scottish Government announced it was in negotiations"
"the coast. The A259 is a local alternate route to the A27 in the eastern coastal strip. Gatwick Airport, which handled over 33 million passengers and had over 250,000 aircraft movements in 2011, is located within the borders of Crawley, and is the second largest airport in the United Kingdom. There is also a considerably smaller local airport at Shoreham and a grass airfield handling light aircraft and helicopters at Goodwood. There are three main railway routes: the Brighton Main Line, the Arun Valley Line and the West Coastway Line. The Portsmouth Direct Line serves and occasionally enters the westernmost"
"airport is operational 24 hours a day. It is able to handle large aircraft up to and including the Boeing 747-400 and Antonov An-225. The majority of freight services use widebody aircraft, with Cargolux mainly now using their new Boeing 747-8F aircraft and Air France operating the Boeing 777F. Volga-Dnepr are also occasional users of Prestwick with Antonov An-124 aircraft. The apron features seven nose-in PAPA/AGNIS (1A,1,2,3,4,7,8) plus 5 stands assisted by Ground Operations (5,6,9,10,11). The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Prestwick: Prestwick airport is the only airport in Scotland to have its own"
"and Manchester Airport, about south-west and south-east of the city respectively. Manchester Airport is linked by a direct rail service operated by Transpennine Express. The Guild Wheel is a public footpath and cycle route, created in 2012 in celebration of the Preston Guild and officially opened in August of that year. in length, it encircles Preston, linking the city to the countryside and surrounding villages. The city is home to the University of Central Lancashire. Formerly known as The Harris Institute, Preston Polytechnic, and more recently (1985–1992) as Lancashire Polytechnic, ""UCLan"" is now the sixth largest university in the country,"
"As well as the thriving no-frills segment, Prestwick continued its traditional strategic role as a refuelling point for military aircraft – the USAF, RAF and the RCAF are frequent visitors, for example. Cargo traffic has also become another stronghold of Prestwick with the vast majority of Scotland's Boeing 747 Freighter traffic entering via the airport. On 5 September 2009 the A380 approached and took off from the airport The airport was owned by Infratil, a New Zealand company and majority owner of Wellington International Airport Infratil also owned Manston Airport until November 2013. Manston was sold to a shell company"
"including Concorde. A new terminal was built alongside the runway to cater for the additional traffic. The old terminal and hangars were converted into a cargo centre. International service from Edinburgh began in 1962 with a direct service to Dublin, but for many years international flights were charter and private only. This started to change during the late 1970s, with direct services to continental Europe (Amsterdam, 1975). By the mid-1980s direct routes included Paris, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Frankfurt and Copenhagen, but until the Open Skies Act in 1990, all transatlantic flights had to land first at Prestwick, with very few exceptions."
"HMS Gannet (stone frigate) HMS Gannet (formerly RNAS Prestwick before it was downsized in 2001) is an establishment of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The base (which is located at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire, Scotland) hosted the only Fleet Air Arm Search and Rescue Flight in Scotland (HMS Gannet SAR Flight). The SAR Flight was decommissioned in March 2016, leaving the base to operate as a FOB and support to UK military. Due to the Second World War the Air Ministry requisitioned the civilian Prestwick Airport for the Royal Air Force renaming it RAF Prestwick A number of"
"Atlantic and GB Airways. Other airlines which had headquarters on airport property (including office buildings on the site of, or adjacent to, the original 1930s airport) include British Caledonian, British United Airways, CityFlyer Express, Laker Airways and Tradewinds Airways. City Place Gatwick City Place Gatwick is an office complex located on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The complex includes four buildings: The Beehive, an approximately former terminal building at Gatwick Airport located on a site; 1 City Place a facility on a site, 2 City Place, a building on a plot, and 3 City"
"via Prestwick to New York JFK, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto, and from Birmingham via Prestwick to New York, in 1967. These services were to be gradually introduced between 1969/70 and 1970/71 utilising the new 707s. BUA, British Eagle and Transglobe Airways simultaneously applied for similar licences. Caledonian objected to the other independent airlines' applications. BOAC opposed all the independents' applications. The Board of Trade (BOT) directed the ATLB to prejudge the four contenders' applications in order to concentrate only on those that stood a reasonable chance of success under existing bilateral arrangements before the route licensing hearings"
"to take the airport back into public ownership. Subsequently, the Scottish Government took ownership on Friday 22 November for £1, Infratil having incurred annual losses of £2m. It is expected the airport will continue to operate as normal and there will be no job losses. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that work would now begin for ""turning Prestwick around and making it a viable enterprise"". On 1 April 2014, the public petition committee at Holyrood heard that ""The Robert Burns World Federation"" wished to rename the airport to Robert Burns International Airport. In June 2014, Ryanair announced"
"connecting the metropolitan area to Boston. There are commuter rail stations in Providence, South Attleboro, and Attleboro. An extension of the commuter rail to T.F. Green airport in Warwick and Wickford Junction in North Kingstown, Rhode Island was completed in 2012. Extensions to Fall River and New Bedford have also been planned. Amtrak provides regional rail service to the Providence and Kingston train stations as well. The major airport is T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, though Logan International Airport in Boston is also used. The MBTA Providence/Stoughton Line passes through T.F. Green and connects the airport to Providence and"
"of the line leading into the town centre unviable. Newcastle Airport lies around 45 minutes drive-time away, and provides 19 daily flights to London (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and London City), with regular flights to other UK centres. The airport also operates regular flights to many European destinations, along with destinations in Africa. Newcastle Airport is the nearest, however for alternative flights, Edinburgh Airport, Leeds Bradford Airport and Manchester Airport are all within . Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in north Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was"
"Norwich Airport Norwich Airport is a small international airport in Hellesdon, Norfolk, England, north of Norwich. In 2014, Norwich Airport was the 29th busiest airport in the UK and busiest in the East Anglia region. Norwich Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. Along with a long history of flights to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via KLM Cityhopper, it offers flights to various destinations in the United Kingdom and Europe. Besides the commercial flights, charter operators also operate out of Norwich. Bristow Helicopters, DanCopter and Babcock Mission"
"1954 Prestwick air disaster The 1954 Prestwick air disaster was the crash, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1954, of ""Cathay"" a British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 377 Stratocruiser on landing at Prestwick Airport, Scotland; 28 of the 36 on board were killed. The Stratocruiser was on a flight from Heathrow Airport, England to New York, United States with scheduled stop-overs at Manchester Airport, in Northern England and Prestwick Airport in Scotland. Due to the bad weather it was decided to fly directly to Prestwick and the flight was delayed while it waited for a Manchester passenger to be"
"flying up the Scottish coast towards Prestwick. The weather forecast Parmentier had been given by the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute at Schiphol had told him that there was some slight cloud at Prestwick, but that it would likely dissipate by the time the ""Nijmegen"" arrived. This report was incorrect; the weather at Prestwick was steadily deteriorating, with the weather at the alternative destination of Shannon even worse. Parmentier believed that there was a strong crosswind, blowing at right-angles to the main runway (Runway 32) at Prestwick of about 20 knots, which might prevent a landing on it. Prestwick had a"
"years, passenger traffic has declined; around 670,000 passengers passed through the airport in 2016. The airport began life around 1934, primarily as a training airfield. A hangar, offices, and a 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 Duke of Hamilton. MacIntyre and Hamilton had become, in 1933, the first aviators to fly over Mount Everest. Passenger facilities were added in 1938. These were used until further investment made Prestwick compatible with jet transportation. The October 1946 USAAF diagram shows runway"
"which is known for its golf and aviation industries thanks to the presence of Glasgow Prestwick Airport. Only north of Ayr is Troon, a golf and seaside resort which regularly hosts the British Open Championship. Ayr has three golf courses in Bellisle, Seafield and Dalmilling, as well as a private course called St Cuthberts. The area is synonymous as a seaside resort, with the south of the town housing the Craig Tara and Haven (formerly Butlins) holiday parks. The suburban village of Alloway to the south of the town is also well established for its associations with the poet Robert"
"Hardwick Field Hardwick Field , also known as Cleveland Municipal Airport, was a public airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Cleveland, in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. It opened in 1955 and was owned by the City of Cleveland. Although most U.S. airports used the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Hardwick Field was assigned HDI by the FAA but had no designation from the IATA. Cleveland Regional Jetport opened on January 25, 2013 approximately two miles east of Hardwick Field, and consists of a 6,200 foot by 100 foot"
"Prestwick. The service was stopped on 31 October 1967 after British Eagle reported £10,000 losses. Around this time the control of Dundee City Council changed from Labour to Conservative and the airport was closed and the land used by Dundee University as playing fields. When control of the Council changed back again to Labour the airport was reopened. The grass runway was replaced by a long tarmac runway in the 1970s and extended to the current length of in the 1990s. The airport was granted ""customs airport"" status on 16 April 1982 and runway edge lights were added in 1983."
"terms of the airport lease albeit it in a deteriorated condition. Concern had been expressed about operation of the Devon Air Ambulance with the closure of the airport as no night flights are allowed at the nearby Derriford Hospital. Air Wales ceased operation in 2006, therefore its Cardiff-to-Plymouth flights were taken over by Air Southwest. No airlines currently operate from Plymouth. Air Southwest pulled out of Plymouth in July 2011 in advance of the airline's closure in September 2011. Plymouth City Airport Plymouth City Airport is a 'mothballed' airport located within the City of Plymouth north northeast of the city"
"Council area and is the most populated section of the constituency. The town annually hosts the Scottish Grand National horse-racing steeplechase and the Scottish Airshow. Towards the south of the town is Robert Burns Cottage in the suburb of Alloway. In Prestwick and Troon, the exclusive Royal Troon and Prestwick Golf Clubs regularly host the British Open Championship. The seat also takes in Glasgow Prestwick International Airport. The constituency covers a diverse and muddled mix of wealthy middle class suburbs and deprived council estates, divided between suburban housing based around parts of Prestwick, Troon and the south of Ayr and"
"numbers for 2017 were recorded as 528,153. KonectBus operates a Park and Ride service from a stop a 2-minute walk from the terminal, connecting the airport with Norwich city centre, six days a week (excluding Sundays) every 10–20 minutes. The first bus departs Norwich Airport at 06:35 and the last at 19:05. Norwich Airport is situated adjacent to the A140, Cromer Road, which runs from Ipswich, through Norwich and on to the seaside town of Cromer; this also provides easy road access to Norwich city centre. The entrance to the airport is at the intersection of Amsterdam Way and Middleton's"