Isnt it time all this rivalry between BRS & CWL was buried once and for all.
Put simply the battle was lost as long ago as the late 1980's a time when both airports were achieving approx 800K pax per annum. Brymon arrived in BRS and the airport started to pull ahead. A very switched on MD at BRS at that time drove the business hard and got new airlines and routes when the best CWL ,who were then owned by a committee of three county councils, could do was Manx airlines with J31's. When GO arrived at BRS the gap started to widen rapidly. With the much larger catchment area, the south west has a population of approx 5 million against approx 2 Million in south Wales it is obvious that any airline looking at the south west segment of the UK for developmet was going to favour BRS.
A huge opportunity was lost when the proposed Severnside airport plan was abandoned. It would have been idealy sited to serve both south Wales and the south west, slap bang on the motorway network and alongside the main London south Wales rail line. Had it gone ahead, we would now have a major international airport to rival BHX. AS Merchant Venturer says BRS could well be approaching capacity and new route developments may well be at CWL where there ample room for future expansion.