Cardiff Airport

[pomeroy]

Wales is the only devolved Country in the UK where Airport Passenger Duty is not within its powers to control. It was not allowed by Westminster because its findings concluded that Bristol Airport would be adversely affected by the competition afforded by Cardiff Airport. This result after continuous lobbying by West Country Tory MPs such as Rees Mogg. Northern Ireland and Scotland have these devolved powers.
Apart from this Cardiff Airport has significant advantages over Bristol in that it has a far longer runway which can take the biggest jets in service. Bristol is unable to extend its runway due to topography. Moreover because of its low lying position Bristol is prone to fog and mist. The prospects for increasing especially cargo traffic seem very favourable notwithstanding long haul passenger traffic.
Let’s hope the new government in Cardiff is not so pusillanimous in its dealings with Westminster as the previous ones.

[splott parker]

Bristol airport is a right pain in the arse, it has more traffic than it can handle in my opinion. It’s a marathon walk to boarding gates, no travelators (moving walkways), bit daft after all what’s been spent on it. Same coming home, bloody chaos if a few flights are in at the same time. Getting there is a lottery, a huge sigh of relief if you make it through the Bryn Glas tunnels (not the airport’s fault admittedly but it’s still part of the journey), the CAZ thing and the worst thing is driving back from a late flight and there’s bollards closing the motorway approach after the Portway. Fur coat and no knickers. Don’t know the answer but Cardiff has to be encouraged & used.

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Cardiff Airport officially determined by the CAA to be the second fastest growing airport in the UK!

Hell yeah! Well done Mark

[Chris Pontprennau Blues]

Don't get me started, Drakeford is a complete fing clown and incompetent c**t

[Tuerto]

Don't get me started, Drakeford is a complete fing clown and incompetent c**t

He's the best thing to ever happen to this Country, Better than Tom Jones, May Boyce and even Shaky.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Ryanair are doing four routes from Cardiff at the moment, think it's Malaga, Alicante, Faro and Dublin. Nothing big or even close to Bristol, but there was a time when Ryanair were saying that they wouldn't deal with Cardiff as the taxes were way too high for landing, taking off etc. Small steps and all that. We need an Airport in this country. Hopefully it can thrive over the next few years or so.

Do they reach the plane's door?

[Tuerto]

Do they reach the plane's door?

Good one. If O leary had his way, punters would be shot out from cannon gun onto the plane with an extra charge of £20 for the privilege.

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

Good one. If O leary had his way, punters would be shot out from cannon gun onto the plane with an extra charge of £20 for the privilege.

Coming back from Dublin on Ryan Air about 20 years ago we were put on the wrong flight (Bournemouth). When they realised their mistake they asked probably a dozen in total to alight the aircraft (it’s ok we hadn’t taken off🤣). As I was stepping off the air hostess asked me what was happening. I said we’d been told to leave the plane. In those couple of seconds conversation though they’d taken the stairs away. Fair play the air hostess just managed to grab my shirt collar as I stepped out onto nothing! If she hadn’t I’d have been a right mess on the tarmac. But my missus had made it onto the stairs, and it was so strange to see her holding on tight as the stairs were driven back to the terminal!! When we complained by letter to Ryan Air, their response was “it could never have happened “!!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Coming back from Dublin on Ryan Air about 20 years ago we were put on the wrong flight (Bournemouth). When they realised their mistake they asked probably a dozen in total to alight the aircraft (it’s ok we hadn’t taken off🤣). As I was stepping off the air hostess asked me what was happening. I said we’d been told to leave the plane. In those couple of seconds conversation though they’d taken the stairs away. Fair play the air hostess just managed to grab my shirt collar as I stepped out onto nothing! If she hadn’t I’d have been a right mess on the tarmac. But my missus had made it onto the stairs, and it was so strange to see her holding on tight as the stairs were driven back to the terminal!! When we complained by letter to Ryan Air, their response was “it could never have happened “!!

Ryanair should have taken steps to prevent that.

[lincoln blue]

Don't get me started, Drakeford is a complete fing clown and incompetent c**t

Other than that he's a great guy!

[G rangetown Blue]

He's the best thing to ever happen to this Country, Better than Tom Jones, May Boyce and even Shaky.

He actually spoke a lot of sense, but he just looked, and sounded, a bit weird for ‘some’.

[North Cardiff Blue]

He actually spoke a lot of sense, but he just looked, and sounded, a bit weird for ‘some’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwyqn1r9qnro

There We Are Then

[Hilts]

The Sir Mark Drakeford Airport. When the great man gets his reward lets name the Airport after him. Fully deserved.

[tforturton]

He actually spoke a lot of sense, but he just looked, and sounded, a bit weird for ‘some’.

No, he never did. Not once.

[tforturton]

I’ve been planning a trip, which will mean long distance flights. I thought I’d make my life easier, by flying from Cardiff to Amsterdam, and transferring on from there. But it works out almost £500 more expensive to go via Cardiff/Amsterdam, than via Heathrow. Why is that? You’d think they would be trying to move flights away from Heathrow.

[North Cardiff Blue]

The Sir Mark Drakeford Airport. When the great man gets his reward lets name the Airport after him. Fully deserved.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwyqn1r9qnro

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwyqn1r9qnro

not sure why you keep posting this, it just looks like anybody's 70 year old grandad dancing, pop a video of you dancing up and show us how it's done!

[North Cardiff Blue]

not sure why you keep posting this, it just looks like anybody's 70 year old grandad dancing, pop a video of you dancing up and show us how it's done!

You must have had a fanny for a Grampy then, and he was the First Minister, well that was the title.

[G rangetown Blue]

No, he never did. Not once.

His refusal to leave the Union was his Achilles heel. Lots of Labour voters ideally would have voted Plaid, but used to be afraid of splitting the vote in Wales, and letting the Tories in…not any more!