Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
Dorcus
And there's me thinking it was called COVID-19 and that it was a worldwide pathogen.
Many, felt that Wales and Scotland went overboard with their COVID-19 restrictions, enforcing rules that at times seemed unnecessarily heavy-handed and out of step with the broader situation.
Anyway, it's all gone now, it's history.
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
Rjk
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passenger numbers peaked in 2007 at over 2 million, then the owners of the airport didn't invest in the airport, lost carriers and were basically allowing it to fail.
If the Welsh government hadn't stepped in in 2013 it would probably have closed already.
between 2013 and 2020 the Welsh government actually achieved impressive growth, and if it wasn't for COVID it would probably be over 2 million passengers by now.
unfortunately COVID happened and the industry was badly affected, smaller airports disproportionately so.
so now they need to try to grow passe get numbers gradually until they can get it back up to 2 million or so and then they will be able to attract more carriers and it would make further investment easier to justify etc.
It's possible there were also other factors at play that started the late noughties slump. Didn't some airlines go bust around that time?
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
Rjk
there was talk of having a us immigration in 5 UK airports as well, I'm not sure which they would be, seems unlikely it would be Cardiff, but would be a bit of a coup of they could get that.
I read Edinburgh airport were very close last year, but nothing happened
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
PontBlue
It's possible there were also other factors at play that started the late noughties slump. Didn't some airlines go bust around that time?
looks like due to the global financial crisis at that time there was a minor slowing down for a year or two in the UK as a whole. but cardiff suffered a much deeper decline over a much longer period.
Possibly because it was a small airport to begin with and small airports always find it harder to compete.
The largest airports are now almost back to where they were pre-covid, but that certainly isn't the case for Cardiff or others of that size
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
The pre and post COVID differences are a concern as it looked like government intervention was starting to work.
The slump in 2012 and subsequent years would have been partly due to the collapse of BMI baby
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
North Cardiff Blue
I'm all for investing in our public transport infrastructure, but with the airport it does run a real risk of throwing good money after bad.
Cardiff airport will never compete with Bristol now. That ship (no pub intended) has sailed and Bristols catchment area is so much larger and the airport now carries more than ten times more passengers
But Cardiff is still punching way below our weight. The links to the city centre are truly shocking. A bus that could easily serve north Barry and Ely and the city centre is desperately needed. It's not unviable to create a loop on the VoG line either. Investment is also needed from a low cost carrier, as currently we just have a spattering of Ryanair flights, with pretty poor load factors (how full the plane is) too.
I am no fan of the WG these days and we have to ask ourselves why people won't invest. They have to bear some responsibility.
But I do support this as a use of public money. Need to see what the hell it goes on of course. The place is depressing at the moment. Anyone landing there to invest in Wales would just get on the first plane back out
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
NYCBlue
I just flew into Cardiff. It was dismal. Inside is not too bad. But from the outside, it's embarrassingly shoddy.
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Originally Posted by
JamesWales
I'm all for investing in our public transport infrastructure, but with the airport it does run a real risk of throwing good money after bad.
Cardiff airport will never compete with Bristol now. That ship (no pub intended) has sailed and Bristols catchment area is so much larger and the airport now carries more than ten times more passengers
But Cardiff is still punching way below our weight. The links to the city centre are truly shocking. A bus that could easily serve north Barry and Ely and the city centre is desperately needed. It's not unviable to create a loop on the VoG line either. Investment is also needed from a low cost carrier, as currently we just have a spattering of Ryanair flights, with pretty poor load factors (how full the plane is) too.
I am no fan of the WG these days and we have to ask ourselves why people won't invest. They have to bear some responsibility.
But I do support this as a use of public money. Need to see what the hell it goes on of course. The place is depressing at the moment. Anyone landing there to invest in Wales would just get on the first plane back out
I'll get in before either BLUETIT or Splotty.....
... which pub, the Ship & Anchor? :hehe:
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
DJ-Q
I fly from Cardiff last month, the uber driver dropped me off at the bottom of the road with my case because he’d have to pay to drop me off closer to the terminal. This is ridiculous on so many levels but even more so considering how “busy” the airport is
You can drop off for free at CWL. The driver was taking the piss.
Re: Cardiff Airport, on the up.
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Originally Posted by
Dorcus
This is great news in my opinion. Well done the Senedd ��
What did they do?
