What more can be said? It’s limited in its potential by its poor transport connections and lack of carriers.
Positive: it’s close.
Negative: 1) Poor transport links. No Train link at all. No metro etc. Busses are poor. Which is a consequence of its distance from the Capital. The Airport is closer to Barry / Cowbridge / Bridgend than Cardiff. It’s about 35 / 40 minutes from the city centre by car.
2) Poor destination choice / number of carriers.
3) It’s small therefore internal amenities are just adequate.
4) looks desperately in need of refurbishment or refresh.
It’s in the middle of nowhere and a pain to get to unless by car. My parents insist on flying from there because it’s “closest for them” but costs me small a fortune to even look in the carpark when I drop them off or pick them up. Nice view of Barry when you land though.
OP, punctuation is important. I thought you meant it was a “Wales only” Airport, as in for Welsh people only. I thought you were rage-baiting with a false claim of discrimination.
Thankfully, u/JThrillington/ read your post differently and so it became clear what you meant to write when he/she commented with the correct punctuation.
Positive – it takes 5 minutes to walk through security and the staff are usually great. I love flying from Cardiff although I was on one of 7 flights leaving that day. Not the most convenient I’ll agree!
It’s not crowded and there’s a smoking bit when youre past security. And you can get a good pic in front of the dragon.
Positive, I’d like to use it.
Negative, I can’t get to it.
Positive, going through security is a breeze and staff are nice.
Negative, more expensive than other airports. It’s unfortunately cheaper and easier to get to Bristol airport.
I really want to be able to fly from Cardiff but it just never works out – wrong times and three times the cost of flying from Bristol. Flybe was great but managed to fly with them exactly once before they went bust!
Positives: You can fly out of it.
Negatives: it’s in Wales.
Copying my post from r/Cardiff
Flew to Mallorca last year at like 6am.
Before Covid I’d flown to Thailand, Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
We’d have a direct rail link to it by now if it wasn’t for Nimbys (specifically one of the executives at Admiral).
For me, the worst part is no domestic flights.
I am constantly in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Birmingham and even Dublin for work.
My closest airport to fly anywhere is Bristol. And the flight times are awful. Living in Swansea, there’s no point driving there or four hours to a London airport, and Brum is a little further than Bristol but similarly bad times for domestic flights
#Positives:
* It’s 40 minutes from my house
* You don’t need to pay CAZ charges to get there
* Security is quick and painless
* Staff are always really friendly
* You don’t have to walk a mile from drop-off to the gates
* The departure lounge bar does a bloody good Guinness.
#Negatives:
* It’s a fucking pain in the ass to get to by car courtesy of the NIMBYs in the Vale
* It’s an even fucking bigger pain in the ass to get to by public transport courtesy of the NIMBYs in the Vale
* Not a huge selection of carriers/routes, if they could entice PLAY back or someone like TAP or Aer Lingus to do a connecting US flight that’d be great.
For the sake of a 1 mile piece of railway line Cardiff Airport could have something Bristol could only dream of, a direct rail link. Boils my piss that we’re in a position where such a small number of people can block a obvious benefit for nigh on a million others.
Waste of money. Needs to be sold to a proper investors. Rubbish to get to.
Pain in the ass to get to. I’d rather get a train+bus to Heathrow than drive to Cardiff Airport ((Travelling from West Wales)).
If they can’t build better links to the place, they should just move or build a new Airport elsewhere with better links (Train+M4).
It’s quick and close. But I can’t even remember the last time I wanted to go somewhere and you could actually fly there from Cardiff.
It has potential. But needs transport links for both train and buses.
As someone that flies long haul to visit family; I prefer Cardiff as I’m coming from West Wales.
However, A flight to Asia costs about £900 return in Cardiff; and £400 or so from Gatwick…. Bus, Hotel and flight; and I’m still saving close on £450. I could do Heathrow at £550.
We are talking KLM v China Eastern/Air here; but having the option of such price ranges would be nice.
I’m with everyone else; getting to the airport is a headache… especially coming from the West.
Used it once when I went to Cardiff (I’m not British, had no idea how to get there in any other way).
As a visitor, nothing bad about the airport itself, but about getting there. Or getting out of there. I remember being the only person outside the airport, at night, waiting for the empty bus. I was sure to be in a horror movie.
What about relocating it to the old Llanwern steelworks site? Theres is a dock there too !
Positives:
Relatively easy to get to from South Wales.
Is not Bristol Airport, which is a pain to get to.
Negatives:
Next to no flights – which is kind of the whole point…..
The small number of flights from Cardiff are expensive.
Its more convenient than travelling to Bristol and beyond, its in a horrible location though and isolated away from any real decent transport links though which really hampers its from being prosperous in this day and age
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It’s [not Wales’ only airport.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airports_in_Wales)
Unless you mean ‘commercial airport’.
What more can be said? It’s limited in its potential by its poor transport connections and lack of carriers.
Positive: it’s close.
Negative: 1) Poor transport links. No Train link at all. No metro etc. Busses are poor. Which is a consequence of its distance from the Capital. The Airport is closer to Barry / Cowbridge / Bridgend than Cardiff. It’s about 35 / 40 minutes from the city centre by car.
2) Poor destination choice / number of carriers.
3) It’s small therefore internal amenities are just adequate.
4) looks desperately in need of refurbishment or refresh.
It’s in the middle of nowhere and a pain to get to unless by car. My parents insist on flying from there because it’s “closest for them” but costs me small a fortune to even look in the carpark when I drop them off or pick them up. Nice view of Barry when you land though.
OP, punctuation is important. I thought you meant it was a “Wales only” Airport, as in for Welsh people only. I thought you were rage-baiting with a false claim of discrimination.
Thankfully, u/JThrillington/ read your post differently and so it became clear what you meant to write when he/she commented with the correct punctuation.
Positive – it takes 5 minutes to walk through security and the staff are usually great. I love flying from Cardiff although I was on one of 7 flights leaving that day. Not the most convenient I’ll agree!
It’s not crowded and there’s a smoking bit when youre past security. And you can get a good pic in front of the dragon.
Positive, I’d like to use it.
Negative, I can’t get to it.
Positive, going through security is a breeze and staff are nice.
Negative, more expensive than other airports. It’s unfortunately cheaper and easier to get to Bristol airport.
I really want to be able to fly from Cardiff but it just never works out – wrong times and three times the cost of flying from Bristol. Flybe was great but managed to fly with them exactly once before they went bust!
Positives: You can fly out of it.
Negatives: it’s in Wales.
Copying my post from r/Cardiff
Flew to Mallorca last year at like 6am.
Before Covid I’d flown to Thailand, Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
We’d have a direct rail link to it by now if it wasn’t for Nimbys (specifically one of the executives at Admiral).
For me, the worst part is no domestic flights.
I am constantly in Glasgow, Manchester, London, Birmingham and even Dublin for work.
My closest airport to fly anywhere is Bristol. And the flight times are awful. Living in Swansea, there’s no point driving there or four hours to a London airport, and Brum is a little further than Bristol but similarly bad times for domestic flights
#Positives:
* It’s 40 minutes from my house
* You don’t need to pay CAZ charges to get there
* Security is quick and painless
* Staff are always really friendly
* You don’t have to walk a mile from drop-off to the gates
* The departure lounge bar does a bloody good Guinness.
#Negatives:
* It’s a fucking pain in the ass to get to by car courtesy of the NIMBYs in the Vale
* It’s an even fucking bigger pain in the ass to get to by public transport courtesy of the NIMBYs in the Vale
* Not a huge selection of carriers/routes, if they could entice PLAY back or someone like TAP or Aer Lingus to do a connecting US flight that’d be great.
For the sake of a 1 mile piece of railway line Cardiff Airport could have something Bristol could only dream of, a direct rail link. Boils my piss that we’re in a position where such a small number of people can block a obvious benefit for nigh on a million others.
Waste of money. Needs to be sold to a proper investors. Rubbish to get to.
Pain in the ass to get to. I’d rather get a train+bus to Heathrow than drive to Cardiff Airport ((Travelling from West Wales)).
If they can’t build better links to the place, they should just move or build a new Airport elsewhere with better links (Train+M4).
It’s quick and close. But I can’t even remember the last time I wanted to go somewhere and you could actually fly there from Cardiff.
Title of post is very misleading, Wales has [other Airports](https://skyvector.com/airports/United%20Kingdom/Wales)
It has potential. But needs transport links for both train and buses.
As someone that flies long haul to visit family; I prefer Cardiff as I’m coming from West Wales.
However, A flight to Asia costs about £900 return in Cardiff; and £400 or so from Gatwick…. Bus, Hotel and flight; and I’m still saving close on £450. I could do Heathrow at £550.
We are talking KLM v China Eastern/Air here; but having the option of such price ranges would be nice.
I’m with everyone else; getting to the airport is a headache… especially coming from the West.
Used it once when I went to Cardiff (I’m not British, had no idea how to get there in any other way).
As a visitor, nothing bad about the airport itself, but about getting there. Or getting out of there. I remember being the only person outside the airport, at night, waiting for the empty bus. I was sure to be in a horror movie.
What about relocating it to the old Llanwern steelworks site? Theres is a dock there too !
Positives:
Relatively easy to get to from South Wales.
Is not Bristol Airport, which is a pain to get to.
Negatives:
Next to no flights – which is kind of the whole point…..
The small number of flights from Cardiff are expensive.
Its more convenient than travelling to Bristol and beyond, its in a horrible location though and isolated away from any real decent transport links though which really hampers its from being prosperous in this day and age
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