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Old 10th Feb 2011, 20:52
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A few observations.
1) IT Hols are expensively loaded at CWL.
2) Many Welsh holidaymakers go IT from BRS because of this.
3) TOM stuggle to fill their jets and share with TCX on some routes
4) WW do the same.
5) TCX couldn't fill the 321 with enough profitable pax so it went to EMA who could.
6) Many of our IT customers are unemployed and on benefits. really.
7) Most ventures out of CWL have failed in the last 25 years. (my timeline for CWL)
8) The airport management, for all their faults, try to generate new business, but it just ain't there.
9) Unless there is a major turnaround in the Welsh economy in the next 2 years (or less) I can see the IT operators contracting further. Summer only.
10. Wales had its chance, the Assemby should have built a major new airport with associated hi speed raillinks to th SE/NW/Midlands at the old steel works at Newport. But alas....
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