Another airline pulls out of Cardiff Airport

[goats]

Ryanair approach CWA before Bristol, but CWA were asking for their standard landing fees even though Ryanair said they would be dwarfed by what the airport would make over the years on concessions etc. Bristol saw this and gave them a very decent deal - the rest is history.

In terms of runway facilities, access, weather, Cardiff is far better placed than Bristol - which was used in WW2 to train pilots in foggy conditions, because it gets so much fog/mist.

And numbers ? Bristol just had OK to up to 12m from 10m, and yes, more than 50% of those will travel from this side of the bridge..

Yep that sounds about right, they get 10 million already? Jeez I think we were close pre covid too, maybe half, now it’s not even comparable. So short sighted of whoever was in charge not to give Ryan air or easy jet good terms….whats that old saying about speculate to accumulate? No the gulf is so huge nothing will work here. They won’t switch here as they are happy there.
Might aswell just shut it down and write off another few 100 million

[Rjk]

Yep that sounds about right, they get 10 million already? Jeez I think we were close pre covid too, maybe half, now it’s not even comparable. So short sighted of whoever was in charge not to give Ryan air or easy jet good terms….whats that old saying about speculate to accumulate? No the gulf is so huge nothing will work here. They won’t switch here as they are happy there.
Might aswell just shut it down and write off another few 100 million

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

[TWGL1]

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
You don’t think clearly

[Rjk]

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

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

[life on mars]

Yep that sounds about right, they get 10 million already? Jeez I think we were close pre covid too, maybe half, now it’s not even comparable. So short sighted of whoever was in charge not to give Ryan air or easy jet good terms….whats that old saying about speculate to accumulate? No the gulf is so huge nothing will work here. They won’t switch here as they are happy there.
Might aswell just shut it down and write off another few 100 million

Totally agree perhaps , I only use BS excellent facility. not that far away now with new bridge more than one way in and we will never compete due to its geographical edge and access via two motorways trunks going north , south ,west and east.

Perhaps invest the millions into something like health , policing , social care , relief m4 ,policing ,education, all well meaning needed socialist causes

[North Cardiff Blue]

Yep that sounds about right, they get 10 million already? Jeez I think we were close pre covid too, maybe half, now it’s not even comparable. So short sighted of whoever was in charge not to give Ryan air or easy jet good terms….whats that old saying about speculate to accumulate? No the gulf is so huge nothing will work here. They won’t switch here as they are happy there.
Might aswell just shut it down and write off another few 100 million

In the 80's BMI Baby were there, it seemed quite busy for a bit.

[2b2bdoo]

In the 80's BMI Baby were there, it seemed quite busy for a bit.

I used to love checking in BMI baby although it was much later than that I worked there. Flights were always busy, they used to make a fortune on additional costs at the airport.

[splott parker]

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]

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.