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DUB, EDI, CDG and BHD would be the priorities but I would not hold out to much hope as airline's like Ryanair and Aer Lingus may well be quite happy for Welsh passengers to travel to Bristol while Air France might be happy for people to use KLM or travel to London. As for Belfast it depends if anyone fills the hole.
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DUB, EDI, CDG and BHD would be the priorities but I would not hold out to much hope as airline's like Ryanair and Aer Lingus may well be quite happy for Welsh passengers to travel to Bristol while Air France might be happy for people to use KLM or travel to London. As for Belfast it depends if anyone fills the hole.
Eastern would most probably reactivate their booking engine and carry on with ABZ, VLY and MME.
Agree that ORK will most probably disappear leaving just BHD, DUB & CDG as the “main” destinations to attract new airlines.
If Blue Islands survive too then I’d guess they may consider JER.
If only Wales had its own airline......just like Scotland and Loganair !!
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Would it be too much capacity if U2 started flights to CWL from their EDI,BFS,CDG bases with A319s? Although i suspect they'd probably get that share of CWL pax thru their BRS services now...
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The airport have engaged with Easyjet many times and said live in radio tuesday morning that Easyjets response is always that they are quite happy to attract Welsh passengers over to Bristol and don't want to operate from Cardiff.
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Maybe the frequency will increase once established.
What about the other main destinations of CDG, BHD and DUB ? Any plans to replace these routes with alternate carriers ??
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I wonder if this would increase to more than x1 daily as there is an obvious market ex CWL to EDI that warrants more than 1 flight a day.
Maybe the frequency will increase once established.
What about the other main destinations of CDG, BHD and DUB ? Any plans to replace these routes with alternate carriers ??
Maybe the frequency will increase once established.
What about the other main destinations of CDG, BHD and DUB ? Any plans to replace these routes with alternate carriers ??
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Surely someone must be see the potential with CDG, DUB & BHD. Eastern are going head to head with Loganair on 3 ex Flybe SOU routes and with the advertising for CWL you’d have thought they’d look at these 3 priority routes.
Its also commented on the SOU page that Stobart “may” look at DUB from both SOU & CWL and I’m guessing for EI Regional.
People are also hopeful that Blue Islands take over JER or would this be a good catch for Aurigny ??
Shame there is no Air Wales to takeover these key routes
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Instead of giving more money to CWL, the Welsh Government should create a small regional airline to serve Wales - I wonder if this would ever be an option or just wishful thinking
Bit like the Air Wales days with 1 to 2 ATR 42 size aircraft to serve BHD,DUB & CDG as the core routes initially.
Before BMI baby, Air Wales were more or less due to start EDI & GLA which meant they had to look at other routes which were not as popular.
There is an obvious market for most of the ex Flybe routes from CWL notably these 3 destinations. Many may think that if they were that popular they’d be snapped up already but with the current market & situation not feasible for other regional airlines like Eastern, Aurigny or Loganair but surely a different story if Wales had its own well managed airline?
Just my thoughts on the whole of the situation following this week.
Bit like the Air Wales days with 1 to 2 ATR 42 size aircraft to serve BHD,DUB & CDG as the core routes initially.
Before BMI baby, Air Wales were more or less due to start EDI & GLA which meant they had to look at other routes which were not as popular.
There is an obvious market for most of the ex Flybe routes from CWL notably these 3 destinations. Many may think that if they were that popular they’d be snapped up already but with the current market & situation not feasible for other regional airlines like Eastern, Aurigny or Loganair but surely a different story if Wales had its own well managed airline?
Just my thoughts on the whole of the situation following this week.
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I can just imagine the reaction to the Welsh government setting up their own airline! It would not be pretty!
As for the loans given to CWL the money is to be used on important things like runway resurfacing, new security scanners and upgrading the ILS system to CAT2 and no doubt continued investment in the terminal and some is set aside for route development as well I believe.
It may take a while but I'm sure eventually most of the ex Flybe routes will be regained.
As for the loans given to CWL the money is to be used on important things like runway resurfacing, new security scanners and upgrading the ILS system to CAT2 and no doubt continued investment in the terminal and some is set aside for route development as well I believe.
It may take a while but I'm sure eventually most of the ex Flybe routes will be regained.
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I can just imagine the reaction to the Welsh government setting up their own airline! It would not be pretty!
As for the loans given to CWL the money is to be used on important things like runway resurfacing, new security scanners and upgrading the ILS system to CAT2 and no doubt continued investment in the terminal and some is set aside for route development as well I believe.
It may take a while but I'm sure eventually most of the ex Flybe routes will be regained.
As for the loans given to CWL the money is to be used on important things like runway resurfacing, new security scanners and upgrading the ILS system to CAT2 and no doubt continued investment in the terminal and some is set aside for route development as well I believe.
It may take a while but I'm sure eventually most of the ex Flybe routes will be regained.
Well maybe not a state owned airline but certainly a private one. The old Air Wales grew a tidy network but certainly was chaotic with 5 aircraft on some low yield routes. But with the loss of BHD, DUB & CDG these would be ideal as the passenger figures were very high in these 3 routes especially.
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Well maybe not a state owned airline but certainly a private one. The old Air Wales grew a tidy network but certainly was chaotic with 5 aircraft on some low yield routes. But with the loss of BHD, DUB & CDG these would be ideal as the passenger figures were very high in these 3 routes especially.
I generally think Wales needs the airlines like Aer Lingus, Air France and Ryanair more than a national airline as they have not just the connections but also the profile not just amongst their own countries people and Europe but also the people of Wales itself.
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I see British Airways are operating a CWL-EDI charter (BA7036) on 15/03/2020 according to the departure board online, obviously connected with the Six Nations Rugby.
Does anyone know if this is mainline BA or BA CityFlyer and what aircraft ?
Does anyone know if this is mainline BA or BA CityFlyer and what aircraft ?
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Some Trade Air in from France as well. I'd imagine that the BA will be Cityflyer.
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