PIK is technically free from 'political control' but as it owned by the Scottish Government, any political element opposed to the Scottish Government (basically Labour and the Tories whose Scottish arms are run from London) will jump on any opportunity to blacken Prestwick's name. The levels of hypocrisy especially from the other Ross and his cronies is really quite remarkable. The business lost by losing the IDF is really only a few transatlantic fuel stops a year and pales into insignificance compared the number of stop overs from the Arab air forces of Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE. If you add in the USAF, RCAF and increasing Turkish AF business then from a business perspective its a very small loss albeit a loss all the same. It will be interesting to see where the IDF now stop over to and from the US.