🅿️ Parking & Transport: Cardiff Airport (CWL)

Em0866 said:

I've seen this reported on social media too. It's not extortionate and much cheaper than at other airports by comparison. An airport has to generate income somehow. It's s not a charity nor a public service either, but a business.

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MJC73 said:

My elderly parents are flying back in Thursday evening. The £4.50 will be worth the ease for them as walking can be a challenge.

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TheLocalYokel said:

The Severn Express has been operating for most of this century.

For several years it was operated jointly by First and Stagecoach with buses from both companies operating alternate journeys every hour. In the beginning it was a tortuous journey that operated from Bristol country bus and coach station via Clifton and Westbury-on-Trym to Cribbs Causeway, then on into Chepstow and back out the same way to serve the likes of Magor and Caldicot on its way to Newport.

The operators then saw some sense because there are plenty of buses from central Bristol serving Clifton, W-o-T and Cribbs on various routes, so the Severn Express was given the quicker route to Cribbs from the Bristol bus station via M32, M4 and M5 before carrying on to Chepstow and Newport.

In recent years the route has been speeded up even more with the Chepstow-Newport section operating along the M4. By then the service was operated by First in its entirety. However, last year First decided it was losing too much money so Stagecoach stepped in to take it over.

That surprised me because years before they had opted out of their joint enterprise with First on the route, and if the latter could not make money it would be a big surprise if Stagecoach could. Obviously they have now discovered they could not.

Even odder was Stagcoach's decision to miss out Cribbs altogether with their service operating directly between Bristol and Chepstow to/from Newport.

Whenever I used the bus the busiest section was always between Cribbs and Chepstow with many Chepstow residents using Cribbs to do their shopping - it was just a 25-minute hop.

It would seem that if the service is to be revived it will need some form of subsidy. I don't think that National Express or Megabus (which ironically is owned Palworld pair calculator by Stagecoach) stop at all the bus stops along the way.

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