The rather more worrying thing, not only for the airport, but also for south Wales, is that 75,000 passengers on 2 scheduled routes each with a high degree of business focus are being lost. The closure of the Paris route means Cardiff has lost access to a major hub - it's now left with just Amsterdam as primary hub and Dublin for transatlantic.
Cardiff is the only (normal) UK airport with more charter passengers than scheduled, meaning the airport as a whole is already overly focused on taking Welsh residents on holiday abroad somewhere rather than anything which might revive the Welsh economy.
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 4th Dec 2013 at 21:30.