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Old 15th Sep 2004, 07:13
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Wee Weasley Welshman
 
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But if you've already driven from say Caernarfon to Wrexham why don't you then just motor on down the A5 round the Shrewsbury bypass and onto the M54, M5, M4 to Cardiff? Its dual carriageway/motorway all the way from Wrexham/Hawarden.

By the time you park, check in, clear security, wait for the 20min delayed inbound, taxi, fly, taxi in, deplane, wait for luggage and then clear the terminal and grab a taxi you will have save all of half an hour at best. And you won't have your car with you.

And you've introduced the risk of an aircraft going tech or diverting. And you've spent more money on flying than you would have on petrol. And they probably only offer two rotations a day so you have little flexibility in what time you go back up North. And it will be a light turboprop and some people don't like flying in those. And you can't use your phone.

The only people interested in this service are QANGO and Assembly 'members' who don't like the long well expensed drive to 'work'. Who the hell else in North Wales wants or needs to go to Cardiff and Swansea on any kind of regular basis?!?

A Welsh domestic service is a lovely notion that doesn't stand up to proper scrutiny. On a wet wednesday in February I gaurantee there wouldn't be a single pax. Maybe it will work in the decades ahead as the new class of diesel twins change the economics of Air Taxis. Thats probably the future - not a scheduled airline service.

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