Low cost carriers such as Ryanair, Wizzair and Flythomascook.com offer direct routes from Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, Riga and Stockholm - often at bargain prices.
Glasgow Prestwick airport, a short drive south-west of Scotland’s biggest city through Ayrshire, is now firmly established as the city’s second airport. With good public transport links to Glasgow, it is a viable alternative to the International Airport – particularly for visitors looking for cheap flights to Glasgow. Many of the budget airlines that service Glasgow, including Ryanair, Wizzair and Transavia use Prestwick instead.
Bizarrely, it’s also a good fans for fans of The King – Prestwick was the only place in Britain that Elvis Presley ever set foot in.
Cheap Flights to Glasgow Prestwick Airport from England
Low cost carrier Ryanair offers cheap flights from London Stansted and Bournemouth airports.
The only budget airline currently offering discount air fares from Northern Ireland to Glasgow Prestwick is Ryanair, which operates routes from Derry and Belfast.
Ryanair flies from Shannon and Dublin to Glasgow Prestwick, while Aer Arann offers a direct service from Donegal.
To travel to Glasgow from Scandinavia on a budget airline, try Ryanair’s regular service from Oslo Torp. Alternatively the Irish budget carrier also flies to Prestwick from Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden.
Cheap Flights to Glasgow Prestwick, Scotland from Latvia and Lithuania
Ryanair is again the airline to look for in terms of cheap flights from the Baltics to Glasgow Prestwick. Flights leave from Kaunas in Lithuania and Riga in Latvia.
Ryanair flies to Glasgow Prestwick from Brussels Charleroi airport in Belgium, while Transavia also flies there from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ryanair operates a direct route to Glasgow Prestwick from Frankfurt Hahn and Dusseldorf as well as Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland. Rival low cost carrier Wizz Air also flies to Prestwick airport from Polish cities, namely Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Katowice.
Cheap Flights to Glasgow Prestwick, Scotland from France, Spain and Italy
Plenty of flights to Glasgow Prestwick leave from Spain. Ryanair flies from Barcelona
Reus, Girona and Murcia. Meanwhile Flythomascook.com flies in from the Balearic and Canary Islands – flights depart from Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Palma De Majorca.
For cheap flights to Glasgow from France, try the Ryanair services from Paris, Marseille and Grenoble. The Irish carrier also flies there from Rome, Milan and Pisa in Italy.