Why on earth would Easyjet dilute it's own market by flying W patterns from Cardiff? Easyjet can get Welsh passengers to travel to them at BRS rather than having to do an extra rotation to go to Cardiff, it would be ridiculous. Also there is no winter market at Cardiff, as has been proven in the last few years with all of the ski companies pulling out of Cardiff due to it being not financially viable. I am not saying there will never be a market in the Winter, just currently there isn't.
Vueling have stated that anything beyond around 2 and a half hours is too far from Cardiff. It is not part of their current business plan, they would rather do lots of rotations in a day.
Also with respect to long haul, if Cardiff can not have routes to AMS, DUB, EDI being stable in terms of passengers level, what airline would think a risky long haul service would be a good idea?! Cardiff needs to stabilise first, grow what it has, then look to getting new and old markets operating.
It isn't a game. It is business.
Last edited by planenut321; 2nd Jun 2013 at 13:21.