Other bases are having capacity increase and Cardiff are to lose out despite high load factors. There are larger bases elsewhere where a mix of in-house and wet lease operation won't have such overall impact.
wet leasing an aircraft can have detrimental impact on the eyes of passengers especially if it leads to dispatch reliability being decreased. Also what happens if aircraft is AOG. Will Thomas Cook try and re-route one of their aircraft of will we have to wait for another wet leased aircraft to be positioned in from possibly outside the UK.