As the CAA have been slow releasing the total figures for 2018 i decided not too wait and add up Amsterdams figures for myself.
In 2017 KLM carried 134,095 passengers in and out of Cardiff in 2018 this has gone up to 146,328. An extra 12,233 passengers have used the route in 2018 which is essentially an extra months worth of passengers and is growth of 9.1%.
November was the busiest month (13,472) with 9 months of the year over the 12,000 passenger mark.
Hopefully this growth will continue and will lead to larger aircraft in the long term.
It's also noticeable that fears that Qatar would just take KLMs passengers and that they would be forced out seem to be unfounded.