Swansea
Posted in the Travel Weekly that Swansea Airport is going to be developed.....that would be good news for the sporting events notably the football and rugby......where it could see Swansea City Football Club, the Ospreys and Scarlets all using SWS instead of CWL.....interesting times ahead
The Travel Weekly entry reporting this:
The owner of the largest independent agency in Wales is bidding to open up Swansea airport to regional flights.
Martin Morgan, owner of 20-branch The Travel House, has launched a study into the feasibility of developing the terminal and said it was “looking promising”.
Morgan, who is also a director and majority shareholder of Swansea City Football Club, is pulling together a consortium of local organisations, including the university, council, businesses and sports clubs, to support his plans.
He said the group would be “up and running within a few months”.
Speaking exclusively to Travel Weekly, Morgan said: “Swansea is the UK’s 25th-largest city. The airport has 300 acres of land, which could be developed. And it has a 1,472-metre runway that could take regional aircraft, yet it doesn’t have any regional flights.
“Any aircraft that flies into London City could fly into Swansea. So we will be approaching the likes of Flybe, for example, which has some smaller aircraft.”
Morgan added: “Norwich, Exeter and Hull all have a regional airport and they are of a similar size to Swansea, so why shouldn’t Swansea have one?”
He said opening up Swansea airport would appeal to sports teams coming to play Premier League team Swansea City FC, and rugby union sides Ospreys and Scarlets.
“Visiting teams have to fly into Cardiff and then it’s more than an hour’s drive to Swansea,” he said.