Getting to Scotland

There are an excellent range of transport options to Scotland, including a wide choice of flights into central Scotland's main airports.

By air

Flights to Edinburgh Airport

Flights to Glasgow Airport

Flights to Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Flights to Aberdeen Airport

Edinburgh airport is less than an hour to the courses on the East Lothian coast, while the journey to St Andrews takes around 90 minutes. The airport is an hour from Gleneagles and just over two hours to Inverness.

Direct transatlantic flights are available from:

New York with Delta
Newark with Continental
Toronto with Air Transat

Airlines operating flights from Europe directly into Edinburgh airport include:

BMI from Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland
bmibaby from Italy
Cimber Air from Denmark
Easyjet from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland
FlyBE from France
Germanwings from Germany
Jet2 from France, Germany, Italy and Spain
KLM from the Netherlands
Lufthansa from Germany
Norwegian from Norway
Ryanair from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden
SAS from Denmark and Sweden
Wideroe from Norway

Glasgow International Airport is less than an hour to the golfing towns of Troon and Prestwick, and around an hour to Gleneagles. St Andrews is just over 2 hours drive from the airport, with Inverness being over 3 hours away.

Direct transatlantic flights are available from::

Air Transat from Toronto
Continental from Newark
Flyglobespan from Calgary, Halifax, Orlando and Vancouver
US Airways from Philadelphia
Virgin Atlantic from Orlando

Airlines operating flights from Europe directly into Glasgow International airport include:

BMI from Denmark
Easyjet from France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland
FlyBE from France
Flyglobespan from Spain
KLM from the Netherlands

Prestwick Airport is particularly convenient for the west coast, being close to Troon, Prestwick and Turnberry. Prestwick Airport is around 45 minutes from the town of Glasgow.

Glasgow Prestwick has a range of Ryanair flights from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden, in addition to Wizzair flights from Poland.

Aberdeen Airport is very close to the links courses north of Aberdeen city and less than two hours to St Andrews.

Airlines flying to Aberdeen Airport from Europe include:

Air France from France
BMI from Denmark and the Netherlands
Flyglobespan from Spain
KLM from the Netherlands
SAS from Denmark and Norway
Wideroe from Norway

By sea

For those travelling from France and Northern Europe Northlink Ferries operate an overnight ferry service between Zeebrugge in Belgium and Rosyth just to the north of the Edinburgh. Visit their website at www.northlinkferries.co.uk for more information.

By rail

Edinburgh and Glasgow are well served by rail links to England, with journey time to London being just 4 and half hours to Edinburgh and around 5 hours to Glasgow.