Originally Posted by
PDXCWL45
Cardiff is a capital city for a start which i believe is important because Qatar may well want to be the only ME3 airline that flies to all the capitals of the UK eventually.
Cardiff has a lot of events which gives it, for it's size, a high profile. Also Cardiff being a smaller airport means Qatar have much more of a say when it comes to fees in the future than they would at Bristol and for Qatar having a government to work with will no doubt be a positive, Bristol doesn't have a South West regional government to work with to attract routes like this. Another factor as well could be the BAMC base as it means that engineers qualified on the 787 from a partner airline are onsite if the aircraft went tech.
You'd think so, but BA do not actually provide the maintenance for QR at CWL, It's done by, I believe, Storm Aviation.
I'm sure if worse came to worse BA would offer assistance or parts, but they are not the default option.