Originally Posted by
runway30
What you are all forgetting is that there is another Board above the Board. That Board calls the shots because they own the business and receive political direction. You have a Minister for Transport who would rather go to Amsterdam on a bicycle than promote going there by air. You have politicians who will scream in the Senedd any time any money is spent.
I supported the airport being rescued by the taxpayer because at the time it was necessary but now it has been in public ownership too long. The government overpaid and made poor strategic decisions. Whether the private sector has an appetite to invest and whether the government could sustain the political outcry at losing the money they have invested is another matter.
This is the key. Public ownership simply doesn't work.
The management work for the politicians (Labour) who aren't interested which means the owners can't attract the best management.
Resources are competed-for by schools'n'hospitals. No sensible MS would opt for airport investment against those.
Politicians are generally very low-calibre individuals, particularly when it comes to running a business.
The current obsession with all things green in Cardiff Bay means aviation will never get a fair crack of the whip.
Labour aren't very enamoured with privatisation, so I don't see a very positive future for CWL.