There is a lot of both informed and downright ignorant comment on here about the airport's subsidy etc.
In my opinion, Prestwick has no viable future as a passenger airport and we should not be wasting any money on trying to pretend that it does. It can however have a bright future as a maintenance and training base, as well as hosting other aviation-related industries. The Chevron news is great and it is for developments like this that the Scottish Government had the foresight to purchase it and provide subsidies until it is able to stand on its own two feet. If they hadn't, we would not now be celebrating this news nor any of the other developments which are in the pipeline. Someone has to take a longer term view and thank goodness that for the benefit of both the local economy and for Scotland in general our First Minister and Government did so.