Originally Posted by
PDXCWL45
Just to give some context to the effect the loss of Flybe from CWL would have. As well as 3 based aircraft and the jobs they create Flybe carried roughly 480,000 passengers in and out of Cardiff in 2017.
Fortunately they haven't gone yet, hopefully they won't, but whatever, I wouldn't be expecting too much expansion at CWL (anywhere for that matter!). Any new owner will want a quick change in fortunes and that will undoubtedly result in some fairly savage cuts to marginal, non core routes.
Hopefully a new owner will be found, since, as with other hot issues at the moment, and to slightly paraphrase "any deal is better than a bad deal".