"Welsh Secretary David Jones is urging potential carriers to take a serious look at operating a service to London City in particular."
Two-faced politicians at it again: his other face will be sprouting off about the evils of air travel and all the 'environmental harm' it does and how we should be using the trains instead.
Sheffield (SZD) - LCY was a flop; CEG - LCY would be a flop too.
CEG would have a very limited, 'elite' leisure market and it would be very surprising to see that supporting any scheduled services; the business market, other than the existing Airbus services, would be very small. Ad hoc charters and biz-jets would be quite adequate for the markets there, much as is already provided but the improved passenger (new terminal) facilities should help increase this a bit. It would be nice to see another airport developing its services but this needs to be done realistically. SZD airport management went chasing after 'pie in the sky' (excuse the puns again!) ideas like routes to London and took their eyes off the real ball (AMS and BRU) and a good airport has now disappeared.