I was always under the impression that the charter market at CWL was stronger than that at BRS, so why the pull-out by MYT at Cardiff? Strange to see them consolidating their Bristol base as well?
The figures would suggest otherwise.
In 2006 CAA stats show BRS handled 1,374,281 terminal charter pax and CWL handled 1,057,674. Both airports also saw a small number of transit charter pax (around 11,000 each).
BRS had 8498 charter air traffic movements and CWL 6041 in 2006.
In fact, the gap did close a bit in 2006 on 2005 when BRS again had just over 1.3 million charter pax but CWL had 819,000. 2002-2004 show broadly similar figures at both airports to those of 2006.
I'm not sure how many flights MYT operate that are their actual flights.
I think it is around fifteen flights per week operated from CWL under a MYT flight code - the same number MYT flights as at BRS.
There is no TCX aircraft based at BRS this summer. A couple of flights a week are operated on a 'w' pattern using aircraft from another base or bases.