Glasgow Airport sale ‘may kill of Prestwick’
06.09.08
The sale of Glasgow Airport could ‘kill off Prestwick Airport overnight’, an industry insider told the Evening Times. The transport expert said: ‘Any new owner could offer the low-cost operators a lock, stock and barrel move by tweaking the landing charges.'
Both Glasgow and Edinburgh have had modest low-cost growth because BAA has been shaping and profiling what it wants and part of that is about managing charges. That would not apply to a new investor, the expert added, saying: ‘Prestwick should be really worried about this.’
However, Prestwick's chief executive Mark Rodwell told the newspaper that it was ‘highly unlikely that either of our major customers would move their activities to Glasgow’. He said: ‘We operate a highly efficient and service focused airport. We have a very strong relationship with our airline customers like Ryanair and Wizz Air and we are encouraged by discussions with them regarding growth.’
Michael Cawley, Ryanair 's deputy chief executive officer, said he believed Prestwick would be successful ‘regardless of the ownership of other airports in Scotland’.
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