I’ll never head south for a trip to Europe. The 3.5 hour drive is not worth it.

Support your local airport.

I think people see the 100 mile headline and try to get down in an hour, try 2 and a half or 3 hours, and yes i stopped for a toilet stop. A canary island trip to get to dub and back isnt worth it plus fuel, car parking etc.....

I will support a " local ' airport but if the flight is only 2 weekly then that doesn't work for me. You can only support it if the flights are available on the days which you need to fly. 1 hr 50 mins on a coach is nothing.

1 hr 50 sat next to a porker then another 7hr to usa?, have a nice holiday as that for a starter

Jet 2
 

Interesting comment from poster on Jet2 thread

"There will soon be 3 new destinations to be announced for S19. MAN along with other bases will serve all 3 new destinations"

BFS has three free slots on Wednesdays for summer 19

I see EasyJets Winter 2018/19 flights are going on sale on Thursday. All six aircraft are remaining at BFS all year I think I seen a while back when the 6th aircraft was announced.
Also I think I seen some of the new routes that are starting in June are going to be year round not sure which ones but I think IOM was one.
I would say there will be some increases on current routes to if the 6th aircraft is staying year round. And maybe a new route or two!

IOM and Venice are both all year services so I agree maybe a few new routes.

How did Cardiff manage to secure a route with Qatar at only 1.3 million passengers.

Because the government lobbied them for the route, sold it to them as access to Wales and the South West and Wales has strong ties to SE Asia and Australiasia and is an exporting nation. Also no doubt the short runway at BRS helped as the fact that Qatar like capital cities.

And it's 1.45 million passengers now and rising.

Yes, a fairly minuscule number of passengers, given the population of the city. We should be able to secure a Qatar Airways route if Cardiff has done so.

From Cardiffs catchment area about 4 million people fly every year 1.6 million from Bristol.

With an ME3 for Belfast i wouldn't be so sure getting one would be easy especially as Northern Ireland has no government at the moment.

Listen up people, we can't even hold on to a New York route, never mind a middle eastern one lol

NCL and Cardiff do not have a 30 million passenger hub down the road.

Manchester is similar distance from Newcastle, Birmingham is another.....

Those locations are 3 hours by train to/from Newcastle. Neither carry 30 million passengers, in particular Birmingham which only has a few Transatlantic flights.

Fair point, 2hrs on the train to dublin though

Surely the perfect opportunity, given how we always moan about clueless politicians messing things up... Strike while the iron's hot!

Maybe the wrong place to ask this question, but does anyone know why European Air Transport (A300) operates the BFS-EMA DHL service instead of DHL Air UK?

Ever since it has started it has been EAT/ air contractors, maybe an irish contract??