Prestwick Airport predicts huge growth
30.10.08
Prestwick Airport is expecting to more than double the number of passengers it handles in the next decade. According to its new 25-year ‘masterplan’, 5.7m passengers will pass through the airport in 2018 - rising to about 12m by 2033. The plan also anticipates that there will be a 4% per year growth in freight over the same period.
Mark Rodwell, chief executive of Prestwick Airport, said: ‘We expect to gain a greater share of the Scottish market. Our growth will provide more travel opportunities, deliver more visitors, and create more business opportunities and jobs.'
‘At the moment more than 20% of our passengers travel to and from the airport by rail but we believe that with improvements to the service this can rise to more than 30% and that is our aim. For that to happen we will need longer trains and platforms, more trains every hour, a full refurbishment of our railway station and an increase in operating hours to cover early morning and late night services not currently catered for by public transport.’
The plan states that some facilities will need to be upgraded to cope but the ‘current runway infrastructure will be sufficient to handle the growth’. However, it would need to develop parking and passenger facilities to cope.
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