New Prestwick Airport book
12.04.09
Prestwick Airport’s dramatic rescue from near oblivion almost two decades ago has been turned into a book, the Ayrshire post reports. Journalist and South Ayrshire councillor Ann Galbraith recounts the airport’s battle for survival when the airport lost its transatlantic monopoly in the late 1980s in The Dream That Wouldn’t Die.
Ann, a councillor for Maybole, Carrick North and Coylton, embarked on the two year long project after a being approached by Bill Miller, a former chairman of the airport consultative committee. She explained: ‘I was a working journalist at the time that BA pulled out of Prestwick and rumours were rife that BAA planned to sell off Prestwick. It was a very dramatic and controversial time in the airport’s history and as a journalist it was intriguing stuff.'
‘Bill and I thought that it would be good to record that time in the airport’s history in a book. I’d just stopped working and I wasn’t involved with the council at the time. The timing was ideal.’
Ann interviewed key players from the time, including Canadian entrepreneur Matthew Hudson. She told the newspaper: ‘He masterminded the take over from BAA and ran the airport until 1998 when the board decided to sell it off. If it hadn’t been for Matthew Hudson the airport wouldn’t be here today. He came along at the right time to save it.
Ann has set up a website for the book www.thedreamthatwouldntdie.com She hopes to collect enough stories and memories of the airport to put together a second installment of the story. Proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Carrick Centre in Maybole. It is available to buy from book shops and from the website priced £12.99.
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