How reliable is Glasgow Prestwick Airport?
Flights from PIK avoided significant airline-controlled delay in 66% of 19 flights in official UK CAA history. Here’s the full picture before you book.
Reliability score
on-time, cancellations & delays
Origin-airport operations
What the airline-controlled delay record at PIK looks like
Avoided 15+ min controlled delay
across 19 flights
Source: UK CAA. Origin-grouped, cause-attributed operational history; it is not a direct departure-punctuality measure or a guarantee for any flight.
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Weather by month
Weather history isn’t available for PIK yet
PlaneSane shows month-by-month airport weather once enough historical METAR/IEM observations are loaded for the airport. This does not mean the airport has no weather data forever; it means the current climatology table has no monthly coverage for Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
The read on PIK
What the numbers say about flying through Glasgow Prestwick Airport
Across official performance history, flights from Prestwick avoided significant airline-controlled delay about 66% of the time over 19 flights. That's a shaky record worth planning around. Pair it with a low cancellation rate of 0.0%, so flights here rarely vanish outright. When a departure does run late, the typical delay is around 33 minutes.
None of this guarantees your specific flight — it’s the backdrop. To turn it into a booking, score real flights to Prestwick, read how we weigh it all in how the PlaneSane Score works, and brush up with how to pick a reliable flight and avoiding weather delays.
Common questions about PIK
- How reliable is Glasgow Prestwick Airport (PIK)?
- Flights from Prestwick avoided significant airline-controlled delay roughly 66% of the time across 19 flights of official history — a shaky record worth planning around. The cancellation rate runs about 0.0%. It's advisory context, not a guarantee for any single flight.
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