Originally Posted by
PDXCWL45
Incentives were provided from the airport but that is no different than any other airport.
As for BRS yes that will always be a drain on Cardiff Airport (even if APD was devolved one day) but Flybe have shown that if the flights are provided then people will use them, around 480,000 passengers (CAA stats are the source) used Flybe from CWL in 2017 and because of that there has been more positivity around CWL than negativity lately, people who i know have always used BRS have started to use CWL as well and will do so in the future and that comes from having Flybe at the airport. That is why their survival and continued operations at CWL is extremely important for the airport.
How many seats were available in 2017?
Flybe have much bigger fish to fry in other airports over CWL.