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:

Atlanta with Delta
Newark with Continental
Toronto with Air Transat and Canadian Affair

Airlines operating flights from Europe directly into Edinburgh airport include:

Air France
BMI from Belgium
Easyjet from Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland
Finnair
Flybe from France
Flyglobespan from France, Spain and Switzerland
Germanwings
Jet2 from Italy
Lufthansa
Norwegian
SAS from Denmark and Sweden
Sterling from Denmark and Sweden

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.

From the United States direct flights to Glasgow are offered by:

American Airlines from Chicago
Continental from Newark
Flyglobespan from Boston and Orlando
US Airways from Philadelphia

Direct transatlantic flights flights are available from a number of Canadian cities with Air Transat, Canadian Affair, Flyglobespan and Zoom

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

Easyjet from Germany and Spain
Flyglobespan from France and Spain
KLMuk
SAS from Denmark and Sweden

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 Transavia flights from Amsterdam.

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 and BMI from Denmark and the Netherlands.

There are also a choice of flights from Norway, including from BMI and SAS.

By sea

For those travelling from France and Northern Europe Superfast Ferries operate an overnight ferry service between Zeebrugge in Belgium and Rosyth just to the north of the Edinburgh. Visit their website at www.superfastscotland.com 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.