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going to be a case of wait and see. Only those involved will know where they want to take the business. Bottom line is how profitable the routes are and whether they fit in with the new business strategy. They must have some sort of plan though. They could easily have set up their own from Manchester and few routes from lhr if they had only wanted a regional connecting airline so regional flying may link in with their strategy especially with KL/AF too.
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G-TAWN flew on the 15th but not on the 16th so MAY have acquired a Tech that took some time to fix. Equally of course, a Winter schedule doesnt require flights every day. Whatever the case, it was on a Loser from the get-go on the 17th being 2 hours late off the blocks and didnt revover its Timings until today.
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G-TAWN flew on the 15th but not on the 16th so MAY have acquired a Tech that took some time to fix. Equally of course, a Winter schedule doesnt require flights every day. Whatever the case, it was on a Loser from the get-go on the 17th being 2 hours late off the blocks and didnt revover its Timings until today.
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CAA stats for December 2018
December saw 85,663 passengers use the airport up 7% on 2017.
1,579,286 passengers used the airport in 2018 up 7.9% on 2017.
Top 10 routes
1. Amsterdam 12,461
2. Dublin 7318
3. Tenerife South 6995
4. Edinburgh 6914
5. Doha 6449
6. Alicante 6436
7. Belfast City 5926
8. Paris CDG 4787
9. Malaga 3666
10. Glasgow 3544
December saw 85,663 passengers use the airport up 7% on 2017.
1,579,286 passengers used the airport in 2018 up 7.9% on 2017.
Top 10 routes
1. Amsterdam 12,461
2. Dublin 7318
3. Tenerife South 6995
4. Edinburgh 6914
5. Doha 6449
6. Alicante 6436
7. Belfast City 5926
8. Paris CDG 4787
9. Malaga 3666
10. Glasgow 3544
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Still not lighting any torches then. How do these months compare to the original other regional QR DOH launch to EDI in their first months. Think they only now just routinely reach low 70's on average.
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I honestly don't have a clue and comparing Cardiff to Edinburgh is a waste of time. The route is generally doing ok and no doubt will mature over time.
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Ryanair Malaga
Ryanair booking engine showing Malaga 3 x weekly (M, W, F) June-September. AGP-CWL 1740-1920: CWL-AGP 1945-2325.
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You would have thought that CWL would want to protect the Vueling operation (they have been very good for the airport), but Ryanair do tend to generate their own market.
Hope it works for all concerned.
Hope it works for all concerned.
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Ryanair offer more as an airline for the airport. They are a lot more well known and will bring in new passengers for the airport and offer the chance of notonly a base in the future but a a route network that encompasses more than just Spain.
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Vueling are strong on Malaga and especially summer peak when the flights are full. But they can only offer so much as an airline and haven't expanded the route offering at CWL.
Ryanair offer more as an airline for the airport. They are a lot more well known and will bring in new passengers for the airport and offer the chance of notonly a base in the future but a a route network that encompasses more than just Spain.
Ryanair offer more as an airline for the airport. They are a lot more well known and will bring in new passengers for the airport and offer the chance of notonly a base in the future but a a route network that encompasses more than just Spain.
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while it’s great that FR are expanding, the airport should be carefully not to put all their eggs in one basket. FR left last time over a disagreement, they can do so again. There are plenty of other destinations that FR could serve from overseas bases such as LPA, ACE, FUE to name a few.
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wasnt the reason why they increased the prices last time is that FR didn’t deliver on its 2 flights a day to Dublin though or was it a base? Can’t remember now :-)
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Vueling
Great news FR have added another route and the number of Welsh passengers flying to Malaga from Bristol still should easily be able to fill these once they are aware of the option of the CWL flight. But have Vueling reduced capacity to Barcelona and Malaga compared to last summer or has it remained the same?