Good luck with that Aulyin!

Cheers mate. Let me know what you think about it when you get the chance.

http://www.s1prestwick.com/news/elvis-d ... tland.html Copied on 20 Feb 2010.

What other events are on in Prestwick or Ayrshire as a whole? All of Ayrshire could be dressing up in Elvis gear, from New Cumnock to Skelmorlie. We've had a few Kings through the years: Old King Coilus (Burried at Tarbolton); King of Kyle (nickname of William Wallace); King Robert Bruce of Scotland (born in Turnberry); King Robert II of Scotland (born and died in Dundonald); and King of Rock & Roll (you know who). http://bit.ly/8Zj6nS 375 today.

The Ayrshire airport, Scotland's first international airport, is an international Gateway to Scotland, but it's much more than that. It is a Gateway to Ayrshire, the home of some of the most world famous scottish icons: Robert Burns, Alexander Flemming, John Loudon Macadam, John Boyd Dunlop, William Wallace, Robert Bruce, William Murdoch, Tom Hunter, Bill Shankly, Sauny Bean, Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Henry Eckford, Johnnie Walker, Henry Faulds, Andrew Fisher, and more.
http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/UserNews/37 ... o+Scotland

Promote Ayrshire.

Aulyin, your link states that Prestwick grew into the first Royal Burgh of Scotland; do you have any evidence to back up that claim? The earliest burghs (set up by Alexander I) were Berwick and Roxburgh, soon followed by Stirling, Perth and Edinburgh set up by Alexander's brother and successor, David I. I'd even go as far as saying that Prestwick was set up as a burgh during the reign of William I, the grandson of David, and never held the Royal title. However I am happy to be proved wrong!

It was information off of the internet so I don't know how much you can trust it.

http://www.prestwick-town.co.uk/history.html


http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/about/prestwick/


One says "Baronial" the other "Royal".
I should have checked.

As you say Aulyin, how much can you trust information... and that doesn't just mean what you read on the internet!

You mean like when you think you're flying into GLASGOW Prestwick?

I see that GLASGOW Prestwick is getting its promenade spruced up.
http://www.s1prestwick.com/news/prestwi ... -year.html

Yes, however...


There's no point confusing the issue more than it already is; the article you linked to is about the town, which is NOT known as Glasgow Prestwick... that latter name, irrespective of how wrong or misleading it may be, ONLY applies to the airport!

As of now this topic is only to be about the issue of renaming the airport; anything else will either be moved to a more appropriate section/topic or deleted. If this topic continues to go off the subject then it will be locked.

I hope I get this right because I don't want to be blocked.

Ayrshire has many tourism assets, the greatest of them are: Ayrshires' Poet Farmer and Ayrshires' Airport.
If we are serious about tourism, then to let its airport be branded with the Glasgow name was non-sensicle. We should be promoting Burns and Ayrshire.

We, in the south west, know Prestwick and Prestwick Airport are separate but strangers to the region, potential visitors, associate the name Prestwick with Glasgow: that is what the branding is all about.

The aim here is to rename the Ayrshire airport The Robert Burns International Airport, Prestwick; I could not imagine the airport being renamed "The Robert Burns Glasgow Prestwick International Airport". Robert Burns was after all an Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire man.

When exactly would the name Glasgow become farcicle. I mean, if the airport was near Girvan, would it be called the Glasgow Girvan International? That's just stupid, or is it. Glasgow would be the nearest Scottish city after all.

I can see why it is called Glasgow Prestwick as it is (or at least was at the time) an international airport and Glasgow was the nearest big city. When all of the Transatlantic flights flew into Prestwick and not into Glasgow, people in North America planning trips to Scotland could more easily see that this was the closest airport to Glasgow. Now that that has changed perhaps the Glasgow part should be dropped. Although nowadays it is still servicing international flights it has certainly diminished in importance as a truly international airport since the emergence of Glasgow from Abbotsinch.

I just wonder if people really care enough about Prestwick Airport to have a change of name. This pole has been running since 27th November and yet has only seven votes. This is a busy forum so I assume that it's not high on people's priorities.

Perhaps your right about the people not being interested but forum polls are sometimes like that.
The petition has 391 signatures so far. It began with a wee bang in December with an average of 10 per day, but I didn't handle it as well as I could have and it slowed down to a trickle of votes. Mind you, there have been 4 signatures added so far today, so perhaps it will "take off" again.

I've added a post to the Ayrshire Posts Forum.
http://forums.ayrshirepost.co.uk/viewto ... 4e471c304f

I'm sure I did this before.

I've set the poll on this to end on the 13th of March, which means that it will run for 100 days in total; so if anyone is interested in casting their vote here then there are just 2 days left to do so. However, in reality any poll on a forum that concerns anything outside of the forum or web site it is associated to isn't really that important... all it ever does is judge the interest of a limited number of people! (Polls like those run for the PotM are different as they are specifically set up for that purpose and the only people they are aimed at are members of this forum, or those interested in joining, anyway!)

Back to the issue of Glasgow Prestwick, and more specifically the petition to have it renamed: I also have to wonder if people really care enough about Prestwick Airport to have a change of name; the petition has been promoted in a number of places including twitter, on Ayrshire forums, etc and yet has only received less than 400 signatures since the 7th of December - that's less than one signature day! Maybe if people who were interested enough to sign the petition passed on the details to others then there might be more signatures, but that isn't definite; I signed it, I passed on the details, I personally don't think it made much difference... however I still think a change of name would be a good idea! Having said that, how much longer do we promote this petition from Scotland from the Roadside? How much difference is the promotion from here actually doing?

Taking the poll off the Roadside is sensible as it has ran its race here, and done what it was meant to do. My thanks again for that Bruce.

The REAL poll, which you have promoted, seems to be picking up slightly (four per day), so perhaps people are talking about it now.
397 Signatures so far.

I believe that this is the right path for the tourism industry in south west Scotland: promote itself; its icons and its scenery, not lie in the shadow of its nearest city.

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