After battling through the stress and queues of check-in and security, there are few things quite like settling down in an airport bar or pub for a nice, cold pre-flight pint. An airport bevvie is essential to properly getting you in a holiday mood.
Alas, a pre-flight pint, like everything in airports, often doesn’t come cheap. Airport lounges typically take advantage of a captive market by ramping up the price of a pint, draining your wallet before you even manage to get on holiday.
Wondering which of the UK’s airports offer the cheapest pre-flight pints? We’ve just the thing. For its ‘Pints and Prosecco Index’, travel company Velloy trawled through pricing data to reveal how much average pints cost at the country’s 15 biggest airports. God’s work, truly.
The title of the UK’s cheapest airport pint goes to, drum roll please, Glasgow International Airport! The average price of a pint at Glasgow Intl is apparently £6.06, which, given the typically-pricey nature of airports, really isn’t too bad.
And that isn’t all. Glasgow is also home to the cheapest individual airport bar in the country. Tennent’s Pier Bar was the cheapest airport bar for a pint, charging just £4.79.
Second in the study came Manchester, with an average pre-flight price of £6.33, while third was East Midlands International, with an average of £6.44. The most expensive average pints are to be found at London Luton (£7.36).
The cheapest airports for pints in the UK, plus the average pint prices
- Glasgow International, £6.06
- Manchester, £6.33
- East Midlands International, £6.44
- London Stansted, £6.60
- Edinburgh, £6.61
- London Gatwick, £6.65
- Bristol, £6.67
- Belfast International, £6.71
- Birmingham, £6.78
- Liverpool John Lennon, £6.84
- Leeds Bradford, £6.94
- Newcastle International, £6.96
- London City, £6.98
- Heathrow, £7.14
- London Luton, £7.36
You can have a look at Velloy’s full study here.
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