New Prestwick Airport book released
12.04.09
Prestwick Airport’s rescue from near oblivion almost two decades ago has been turned into a book, the Ayrshire post reports. Former journalist and South Ayrshire councillor Ann Galbraith recounts the airport’s battle for survival when it lost its transatlantic monopoly in the late 1980s in a new book called The Dream That Wouldn’t Die.
Ann, a councillor for Maybole, Carrick North and Coylton, embarked on the 2 year long project to write the book after a being approached by Bill Miller, a former chairman of the airport consultative committee. She said: ‘I was a working journalist at the time when BA pulled out of Prestwick and rumours were rife that BAA planned to sell off Prestwick. It was a dramatic and controversial time in the airport’s history and 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 so 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 him the airport wouldn’t be here today. He came along at the right time to save it.
Ann has set up a website to promote the book at 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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