>Cardiff Airport said it facilitates 4,000 jobs related to aviation in the Vale of Glamorgan, **where it is located**.
Therein lies the problem. Cardiff Airport is not in Cardiff. It’s on the southern end of the Vale of Glamorgan, by Rhoose.
Bristol Airport is easier to get to, costs the same, has better routes and better facilities.
Cardiff Airport was built in the wrong location, and wasn’t given the infrastructure it needs to prosper.
Well it’s a rubbish airport, in the wrong place flying to rubbish destinations.
We should build the infrastructure to make our airport useful. Let’s build the Severn Barrage, with road and rail links across it. Open up our airport to the South West of England.
When I look to go abroad I check my airport as Cardiff/Bristol and pretty much all the time Bristol is alot more cheaper, even with added parking/fuel costs, so I book from Bristol.
Makes you question why do airliners charge far less from Bristol than Cardiff to the same destination? It’s as if they’re being charged more by Cardiff airport and need to recoup the costs.
Better management could introduce more flights to/from Cardiff airport which would make a profit. Shame.
For decades (going back pre-WG), WG and UK studies came back with the same solution. Build a better road link to the M4 to make it more accessible. All we got was a free bus service to Cardiff Central because they couldn’t justify the spending.
The sad thing is, all that money wasted on those studies and on propping up the now-failed airport could have paid for the link several times over. Now the WG has blocked all road building on green reasons (AKA they have no money) there is zero chance of the road ever happening.
The only sensible thing to do is to close it and to put the money into something more useful such as health, schools etc. Especially at a time when councils across Wales are facing financial disasters of their own.
It’s catchment is too small. And the prices are lower elsewhere.
Why would someone from the West-country bypass Bristol and fly from there? Why would anyone from north of the Beacons not go via Birmingham and get a cheaper holiday.
Unless they improved infrastructure to Cardiff airport, it won’t have an uptick in business and therefore will always be uncompetitive. But no real, meaningful infrastructure improvements will be made, WAG have chinned them all off. Getting into or out of South Wales is still shit, and getting shitter.
Edit: someone spent time coding this utterly shit bot.
Private sector can’t make an airport work. Government can’t make airport work. No surprise to anyone.
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>Cardiff Airport said it facilitates 4,000 jobs related to aviation in the Vale of Glamorgan, **where it is located**.
Therein lies the problem. Cardiff Airport is not in Cardiff. It’s on the southern end of the Vale of Glamorgan, by Rhoose.
Bristol Airport is easier to get to, costs the same, has better routes and better facilities.
Cardiff Airport was built in the wrong location, and wasn’t given the infrastructure it needs to prosper.
Well it’s a rubbish airport, in the wrong place flying to rubbish destinations.
We should build the infrastructure to make our airport useful. Let’s build the Severn Barrage, with road and rail links across it. Open up our airport to the South West of England.
When I look to go abroad I check my airport as Cardiff/Bristol and pretty much all the time Bristol is alot more cheaper, even with added parking/fuel costs, so I book from Bristol.
Makes you question why do airliners charge far less from Bristol than Cardiff to the same destination? It’s as if they’re being charged more by Cardiff airport and need to recoup the costs.
Better management could introduce more flights to/from Cardiff airport which would make a profit. Shame.
For decades (going back pre-WG), WG and UK studies came back with the same solution. Build a better road link to the M4 to make it more accessible. All we got was a free bus service to Cardiff Central because they couldn’t justify the spending.
The sad thing is, all that money wasted on those studies and on propping up the now-failed airport could have paid for the link several times over. Now the WG has blocked all road building on green reasons (AKA they have no money) there is zero chance of the road ever happening.
The only sensible thing to do is to close it and to put the money into something more useful such as health, schools etc. Especially at a time when councils across Wales are facing financial disasters of their own.
It’s catchment is too small. And the prices are lower elsewhere.
Why would someone from the West-country bypass Bristol and fly from there? Why would anyone from north of the Beacons not go via Birmingham and get a cheaper holiday.
Unless they improved infrastructure to Cardiff airport, it won’t have an uptick in business and therefore will always be uncompetitive. But no real, meaningful infrastructure improvements will be made, WAG have chinned them all off. Getting into or out of South Wales is still shit, and getting shitter.
Edit: someone spent time coding this utterly shit bot.
Private sector can’t make an airport work. Government can’t make airport work. No surprise to anyone.