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Burns airport a non-flier



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Published Date: 11 October 2008
I yield to no-one in my admiration of Robert Burns's poetry, imagination and humanity. But the last thing he needs is to have an airport named after him (Letters, 9 October). The fact that Robert Liddell gives George Best and Robin Hood as precedents says it all.
JOHN BIRKETT
Horseleys Park
St Andrews, Fife

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  • Last Updated: 10 October 2008 8:14 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

truthsleuth,

11/10/2008 01:37:39
The plane will land at Scotlands Burns airport.

Could be a hot place to land.
2

Pilrig,

Livingston 11/10/2008 06:09:40
1 - no as hot as Currie
3

Gdgy,

dndy 11/10/2008 09:48:30
Rabbie Burns Airport???

No thank you.

Why not paint it tartan and play piped music???

Urghhhh
4

Dave,

11/10/2008 11:30:29
I find airports the least human friendly of service places. They have the least sole and personality so why not make them as hey are? Simply, places of mundane service to catch a flight? Why not call it, um, Prestwick airport given that's where it is located?

Or, call Lothian buse main station the Rab C Nesbit bus station or some other crud.
5

Hugh V McLachlan,

Elderslie 11/10/2008 23:46:30
'Why not call it, um, Prestwick airport given that's where it is located?'

I agree. By the same token, we should call Glasgow Airport 'Paisley Airport'.
6

James F,

East Ren 12/10/2008 15:56:16
#5 what's wrong with Inchinnan?
7

Hugh V McLachlan,

Elderslie 12/10/2008 19:00:26
#6 James F

'what's wrong with Inchinnan?'

That's fine with me
8

James F,

East Ayr 13/10/2008 00:25:25
OK. Inchinnan it is. We'll let the boys know!

 

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