Prestwick Airport has been put up for sale by its owners in New Zealand.
Ryanair has announced eight new flights from Edinburgh and Glasgow Prestwick to destinations across Europe.
Although crowd chaos at Prestwick in 1925 saw the Open's original club finally retired.
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Prestwick has seen passenger numbers plummet in the past few years, with freight figures also suffering.
Prestwick was put up for sale more than a year ago by its New Zealand owners, Infratil.
It will land at Prestwick Airport in Scotland, before making its final leg to Land's End Airport.
The Irish carrier, which is dominant in Prestwick's passenger operations, has shifted several routes to Edinburgh Airport.
Lower costs have allowed Mr Hudson to price landing charges at Prestwick below those of rival airports.
In addition, there are hopes of developing the aerospace sector at Prestwick Airport and its adjacent enterprise area.
Prestwick Airport has suffered a sharp decline in passenger numbers this winter, down by 40% in recent months.
Flights to and from City of Derry airport to Dublin, Luton and Prestwick were behind schedule on Tuesday.
Prestwick announced in February last year that it would shed 120 jobs as a result of the economic downturn.
Infratil announced in March it would sell its 100% stakes in Prestwick and a second UK airport, Kent Manston.
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The other current search and rescue bases are Culdrose, Wattisham, Valley, Boulmer, Portland, Lee-on-Solent, Chivenor, Leconfield, Lossiemouth and Prestwick.
Its winter figures saw a much steeper fall, with a 40% reduction in the number of passengers using Prestwick.
In recent years, the number of passengers at Prestwick topped 230, 000 during the month in both 2007 and 2008.
In 1991 the newly-privatised British Airports Authority, BAA, put Prestwick on the market.
Prestwick is owned by Infratil, an infrastructure investment company based in New Zealand.
The European airline Wizz is switching two of its services from Gdansk and Warsaw from Prestwick to Glasgow Airport.
Now Mr Hudson thinks Prestwick could become one of Europe's biggest cargo-handling airports.
Prestwick Airport saw a drop of nearly 20% in passenger numbers in July, compared with the same month last year.
Infratil, an infrastructure investment company, said declining numbers were due to Ryanair reducing its routes in and out of Prestwick.
The airline is also increasing the frequency of flights on five other routes from Edinburgh and four from Glasgow Prestwick.
Prestwick Airport saw a drop of nearly 20% in passenger numbers in July 2011, compared with the same month last year.
It means there will now be 38 routes operating by Ryanair from Edinburgh Airport and 27 routes from Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
In 1868, golf's first recorded hole-in-one was scored by Scotsman Tom Morris at Prestwick's 166-yard 8th hole, during the Open Championships.
The latest figures continue an upwards trend at Prestwick, which opened the year with passenger numbers up by 31% over January 2012.
In Ayrshire, a male pedestrian died on Friday night after he was hit on the A77 Glasgow to Portpatrick road near Prestwick.
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Prestwick Airport, in South Ayrshire, said it had informed staff and unions that a 90-day consultation period would begin on 16 August.
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