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The first and second paragraph are a contradiction of each other. On one hand your saying CWL and BRS aren't on a level playing field because Bristol took better decisions in its past with the private sector investment it received to grow. Which is how private business works. You snooze, you...

A level playing field is an equal charge across nations and airports. If the government chooses to reduce APD In Wales then it is subsidising the difference as the money still needs to be paid to the treasury.

The irony is that by not devolving APD CWL remains on a level playing field with England as its the same price.

I know route development is a continual thing, but i'm surprised it's expected to be over £10m a year. I would have thought the large majority of that would be required almost immediately to get Airlines in. I don't think CWL will ever see a long line of Airlines queueing at the door, so the key...

Ive often wondered if the money CWL will be getting will be used on other things, like terminal and infrastructure, which would free up funds from income to be put towards route development on competing routes. Could be a spin put on it.

Didn't Cardiff have a large sum of money from the WG as part of the initial nearly £200m thats been spent on it? On a slightly different note, with all the expansion happening at Bristol it will be interesting to see what happens with the road infrastructure to be able to cope with increased...

I did think the same thing. I had to check i hadn't missed easter!

Currently only 14 seats available on the CWL-AGP sector.

Its rare that every passenger on TUI flights will select seats. Many will wait until check in. If anything TUI will be looking to add more of their own long haul flights to find something for the aircraft to do. There isn't much ad-hoc long haul flying in the winter season. They are probably...

To be fair to Ryanair they will always do their best to avoid cancelling. Easyjet however will cancel flights at the drop of a hat and operate much tighter with regards to crew workings. Many factors will be at play though, subject to crew and aircraft availability. Had it been peak summer they...

Palma is a no brainer, and I'm quite surprised has not been picked up again already. Looking at July from BRS there are 53 flights a week (FR - 11, EZY - 21, Jet2 - 13, TUI - 8) A route like that should be able to sustain a few weekly summer flights without too much incentive given to Airlines...

Cruise flights have always done well from Cardiff. Bristol haven't seen many at all over the years. Between Cardiff, Exeter and Bournemouth it probably covers most areas. From reading elsewhere Norse haven't had a good reputation for reliability in comparison to TUI.

Times and the winter market has changed since those days. BMIbaby also didn't fly as far as the canaries, which is essential for winter flights. When you look at how many ski flights go from Bristol every week as well, the ski market has grown a fair bit.

Bit dramatic. Facts: CWL was part of a portfolio of Belfast, Luton and Cardiff, with the first two being the owners main priority. Then that company wanted out of aviation, so little investment was put into CWL prior to that happening. Which jobs lost at employers? Hypocrisy? You're putting...

So much to pick out from that. Because Wilko and Poundland are private businesses that don't offer benefits to the Welsh economy in the same way an Airport would. What if those staff, airline and airport, don't want to relocate? Same with BA staff. Handling agent staff aren't paid very much...

This has all gone very quiet.

It was originally 5x weekly with a Sunday flight when they released Summer 26, then cut that Sunday flight except in October. Interesting they've brought it back. I wonder if those already booked on it had cancellations, and subsequently rebooked, or if they just stopped sales.

It's a rolling year, so Nov 24-Nov 25 stats. The passenger figure for 2025 only (Jan-Nov) is 907234. So December would need to see 93k passengers to top 1m. Based on 952k, December would need to be about 45k, which would be a 5500 increase on Dec 24, which is achievable with the TUI and FR...

I think it's just some change of days, not all extra dates. The only extra date is 26th March. Alicante Flight removed Wed 29th April Flight removed Wed 20th May Flight removed Sat 30th May Malaga Flight removed Tues 5th and Tues 26th May

That's a contradiction in itself. The counteraction to unsafe landings is pilot judgement, aircraft limits and timely decision making to divert. If it was not safe, the airfield would have been shut down a long time ago. So there is a certain level of safeguarding already in place, for anything...