CWL and SEN are the two airports immediately behind SOU in terms of annual passenger figures but are catching up, with SOU falling away into the bargain. In May:

CWL handled 176,704 (up 7.2%) with a 12-month rolling total of 1,618,285 (up 7.1% on a year ago).
SEN handled 203,284 (up 58.1%) with a 12-month rolling total of 1,646,146 (up 37% on a year ago).
SOU handled 159,249 (down 13%) with a 12-month rolling total of 1,921,779 (down 7.1% on a year ago)

CWL is seeing steady but consistent growth, as it has done for the past few years. With yet more pressure on the government to devolve APD together with the increasing likelihood that BRS (its main competitor) will find getting local authority permission to raise its 10 mppa passenger cap becoming more difficult following May's local elections, the 2020s could be a good decade for CWL.

It's not daily in May. It's 5 weekly. It's daily from June. But generally Qatar LFs for May seem low for the UK.
Its

Wizz Air will be operating 3x flights into Cardiff from Budapest & Debrecen on the 19th & 20th November in connection with the UEFA Euro Qualifier, between Wales and Hungary.

BUD 08:00 - CWL 09:45 / CWL 01:00 - BUD 04:30
BUD 08:30 - CWL 10:15 / CWL 01:30 - BUD 04:55
DEB 09:00 - CWL 10:45 / CWL 01:15 - DEB 04:45

See #1115-1118 above.

Aren't QR meant to be a vanity project for the Qatari government and they just thrown money at them regardless of dire loads? Isn't their sole purpose to usurp EK at any given opportunity?

Or maybe they value the feed from the UK into their network? Passenger and cargo wise.

NATS have signed a 10 year deal to provide Cardiff airport with ATC and engineering services. They will also provide ATC for St Athan.
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news...rdiff-airport/

Well, that will get the rumour mill ticking! Newcastle or Glasgow maybe?

Or Belfast?

According to the airport June saw 193,176 passengers use the airport with 6% growth on 2018. The rolling year was 1,632,689 passengers.
April, May and June have seen 496,434 passengers use the airport up 10% on 2018.
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news/2019/07/17/cardiff-airport-reports-10-growth-for-first-quarter-of-the-financial-year/

https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news...over-10-years/
From the article linked above.
The top ten most popular routes this summer are:

Palma de Mallorca with Vueling, TUI and Thomas Cook
Malaga with Vueling, Ryanair and TUI
Amsterdam with KLM
Doha with Qatar Airways
Edinburgh with Flybe
Alicante with TUI and Vueling
Dublin with Flybe
Dalaman with Thomas Cook and TUI
Tenerife with Thomas Cook, TUI and Ryanair
Paris with Flybe

Hopefully that means Doha is around the 9000 to 10000 mark for June

Forecast passenger figures 2019
 

I don't think that the airport put anything official out but i would've thought that the target should be around 1.65 million to 1.7 million passengers for the year.

yes it is though some seem to think the airport should be doing way better.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49023188

Yeah part of it is political opportunity but I do get the feeling that their is a lot of the time an unrealistic expectation around Cardiff. I had a conversation with ex CWL management who feels that it's way under performing and should already be over the 2 million passengers mark. A lot of people I speak to seem to be believe Cardiff should be up there competing with Bristol and Birmingham as an airport. I just think that is unrealistic.