Why would Continental use Cardiff if Bristol is`nt working
An excellent question. The only real reason is if CO have had a bust-up with BRS over charges, or something similar, or the BRS runway is causing them problems. No sign of either, so I really can't believe that they would transfer their operations to CWL. AS Caaaardiff rightly says, they really can't do BRS and CWL without hammering their yields, which defeats the object.
As for Thomsonfly, well I would imagine they probably are going to add routes from Cardiff. They are at heart a charter operator and will fly wherever they are chartered to. Can I guess at Heraklion, Sharm, more Naples (or possibly even a Venice for the cruise market) and as for France, I would guess Nice, again for the cruise market.