its almost as bad as the PIK debacle

cos that worked so well last time...

He said the airport has "agreed to provide an extended commercial loan facility to the airport of up to £21.2m to help support its ambitious plans for the future. The airport will repay the loan in full, with interest, under a planned repayment schedule".

The loan would deliver the airport's proposals for "significant further investment" in their facilities over the next six years, Mr Skates said.

Will be interesting to see what it'll be for!

I'd say that Cardiff has a good a chance as any! Fingers crossed!

But looks like TUI have filled some of the gaps.
The gap on Thursday has been filled by an extra Gran Canaria.
The gap on Monday by a 3rd Tenerife.
Antalya is now 2 weekly with the addition of a non based Sunday flight.
Dalaman goes to 3 weekly with the addition of a non based Tuesday flight.
These will lead to 47 weekly departures for Summer 2020 a 2 weekly increase on Summer 2019. Hopefully a few more flights will be added as it would be nice to get to 50 weekly departures.
43 weekly departures will be on the 3 based aircraft and 4 will be on non based aircraft.

Sadly today is the last day of Flybe Embraer E jet operations and the base at Cardiff Airport 😞😥
All flights from tomorrow will be on non based Q400s.
TUI will be the only based airline from tomorrow.

Aberdeen is back with Eastern Airways.
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news...to-aberdeen-1/

There was a rumour about Lauda adding PMI but nothing seems to have happened yet or if it will. Even if that happens I wouldn't expect anything else. The airlines have bigger fish to fry elsewhere unfortunately.

TUI Summer 2021
 

Winter 2020/21 for TUI
Paphos 1 weekly Wednesday (doesn't operate in December, January and February except 24/2/21)
Alicante 2 weekly Tuesday and Saturday
Gran Canaria 1 weekly Saturday
Lanzarote 2 weekly Sunday and Thursday
Malaga 1 weekly Sunday
Tenerife South 3 weekly Monday, Tuesday and Friday
10 weekly flights but only 9 in December, January and February.

Dubai Al Maktoum 1 departure 18/1/21
Barbados 2 departures 28/2/21 and 28/3/21
Jamaica 1 departure 2/2/21

Cardiff Airport is going to build it's own solar farm to provide it's power.
https://www.cardiff-airport.com/news/2019/11/08/solar-pv-farm-to-be-installed-at-cardiff-airport/

Well if the airport wants to continue to become a more environmentally friendly airport a cleaner source of energy is going to be part of that. Not every penny the airport has can be spent on airlines.

I suppose it depends upon whether you believe air traffic growth, or the climate and future for our kids and grand kinds is the priority. The flooding in my part of the world over the past 24 hours, and previous events this winter are almost unprecedented, and while I don't believe that anyone, other than perhaps the extremists would advocate stopping aviation altogether anything airports can do to reduce carbon emissions from non aviation activities will only help the cause of aviation in the future.

Anybody know the size of area of the solar farm? I would guess it's going on the south side around the old 04 runway.

So some slightly good news from Vueling for April 2020, Malaga and Mallorca have been increased to match the rest of the summer.
Malaga will now operate 4 weekly in April and Mallorca 3 weekly in April with Wednesday flights added for both.
So now Malaga will be 4 weekly all summer on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Mallorca will be 3 weekly all summer on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Alicante remains 6 weekly with no flight on Fridays.
Vueling will operate 13 weekly flights altogether. (It was 15 weekly in 2019).