Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

[splott parker]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

Bristol is ok pre flight, plenty of eating and drinking places, the lounges are pretty good value too. It’s the actual route march to get to the plane that’s not good, no travelators for those who have trouble walking, every flight I’ve got from there always seems to involve a sponsored walk. If a few flights arrive home at the same time, passport control is chaotic. The unmanned ones work when they want to when you eventually get to them.
It’d be Cardiff every time for me if possible.

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

Bristol is ok pre flight, plenty of eating and drinking places, the lounges are pretty good value too. It’s the actual route march to get to the plane that’s not good, no travelators for those who have trouble walking, every flight I’ve got from there always seems to involve a sponsored walk. If a few flights arrive home at the same time, passport control is chaotic. The unmanned ones work when they want to when you eventually get to them.
It’d be Cardiff every time for me if possible.

The unmanned passport check machines not working are usually down to human error.

[TWGL1]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

Cardiff have never had that many, they had around 2 million in 2007, which dropped to half that before the Welsh government took over, they were on track to be more than 2 million by now if it hasn't been for COVID, but that dropped it to about 200k , last I heard it was up to around 800k

Do you work for the government bro :hehe:
You don’t think clearly

[Rjk]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

Do you work for the government bro :hehe:
You don’t think clearly

I do not work for the government.
do you disagree with something I've said above?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

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I can get lifts to Cardiff and save on the parking, Bristol has many terrible flight times often ten or more leaving at 6 in the morning. Their security is slow with massive queues, it's a crap airport compared, and sliver zone parking is a rip off, Cardiff run properly should be able to take them on and beat them.

Use your local airport if you can, that's the only way it will survive.

That's the difference for me. The drive to Cardiff [for me] is probably 20 - 25 minutes quicker than Bristol, so nothing much in it, but parking for a week in Bristol is £100 minimum. A lift there and back is ideal, but even spending £30-£40 each way on a taxi from Cardiff is a better way to start and finish a holiday..

[Wozza16]

Re: Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

Getting Qatar back to Cardiff is vital for any significant growth, passenger numbers were strong and growing and a worthy benefit of avoiding a 3+ hours up to London for a lot of people. I flew Adelaide to Cardiff return for £680 back before Covid with only the 1 stop.

I hate using Bristol airport, it takes me longer to get to/from some of the boarding gates than it does to get back to Wales, I don’t think I’ve seen gates so far from the terminal in any other airport.