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The weak catchment area is irrelevant for how many passengers it can handle. It is an excuse for justifying a lack of routes and passengers. The reality is consumers buying flights are incredibly price elastic (Nijkamp 2002), (Teslenko-Kucherenko 2019), (Schneider 2025) - a lot of research...

The entire thinking behind routes such as WestJet and Qatar is fundamentally flawed. Cardiff Airport and the Welsh Government seem to treat long-haul connectivity as the holy grail of aviation and economic investment on the assumption that simply having direct links to North America, the Middle...

I would happily support the Welsh Government effectively subsiding Ryanair's entire base there with zero landing fees etc... Don't spend money on Doha and other nonsense long haul routes. Don't spend money revamping the terminal. The airlines do not care about that, nor do the passengers. Make...

The third runway debacle is getting stupid. They've had several votes in Parliament. Use Parliamentary sovereignty to pass the laws to get it build ASAP

Heathrow should rush to build T5D (I'm guessing they can relocate the fire station) and try making a Oneworld terminal. That would be great for connections

"Welsh Government pissed £6.6m of our money up the wall..." Considering it would not be our money if I was not Welsh, I thought that answered the question. Yes, I am Welsh and live in Cardiff. It is me being Welsh and seeing my tax money being pissed up the wall that leads me to being so...

This is exactly why I regard the airport as a failure. There is far too much complacency surrounding its performance and far too little willingness to critically evaluate the decisions that got it here. Rather than acknowledging obvious strategic failures, people continually find reasons to...