That may be true but not to advertise it on their own webpage is a bit an odd route to take. Not everyone is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any news is good news for CWL so they should “shout out” about it all.

Consider perhaps a "gentlemen`s agreement" between Wizz & the airport owners not to "shout out" competitor news so as not to dilute sales on their own routes at the new base...
There will be not be unlimited numbers of potential sun seekers in the market from CWL after all.

Letsflycwl

Well what are they going to say? Ryanair resumes Malta after dropping it. It's just a route resumption not a new route. Now if it was a route like Dublin it might be different.

Well considering the “news” section has not been updated since 03/12/2020 they could easily state FR are returning MLA to the departures board.....

Admittedly they aren't always the best at pushing social media. But give them chance, it's only been back on sale a day!
If it was a brand new route launch it would be different. They have promoted Malta in the past.
I highly doubt the general public checks their news sections often, if at all.

Considering Ryanair have taken it offsale maybe it was for the best that they didn't.

Talking about advertising, in the last hour I've heard atleast 5 Jet2 adverts for BRS and absolutely zero Wizzair adverts for CWL. how can we hope to have a successful base if the airport/airline don't have an aggressive advertising campaign like Jet2 does?

Could not agree more with you !! All you hear on the radio, TV and on flyers through the door is Jet2 at BRS......kind of flat on the Wizz advertising but not sure if that it their strategy really?

I’m sure you’ll have Gemma Collins all over your tv in the future!

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I don’t think any airline has an advertising campaign like Jet2 though - they are aggressive - especially for new bases - you just have to look at BHX and STN when they opened.

Jet2 adverts have been on ITV Wales a lot over the last couple of months. They've also been doing mail marketing. They always mention their new Bristol base. That's Jet2's style though. They have done the same previously when they have opened bases.

Wizz have done a bit of marketing. They were in all of the South Wales newspapers and got a fair bit of social media buzz with their fly past a few weeks ago.

Nice to see Cardiff being used for PPE cargo flights again. There was one on Saturday and currently 2 aircraft on the ground a Nordwind 777 200er and I Fly A330 200. Also another Nordwind 777 300er currently on it's way from China.

Nice overhead shot of the WizzAir aircraft parked at Cardiff!

Eastern Airways has put back the launch of the Cardiff to Belfast route to Monday 24th May, route is down as 6 weekly with no Saturday flight.
Anglesey won't resume until Mon 6th September, route is down as 10 weekly Monday to Friday.

It’s reported today that 42 out of 46 of Flybe’s domestic network have been taken over by other carriers, really baffles me how no one has taken the CWL-EDI and CWL-JER routes. Such a shame really.

...if they were money spinners someone would have been all over them eg Loganair. Could Wizz fill an A320? 🤣

ha price it right and anything is possible. They may operate at a loss, but could still be a full A320

Edinburgh used to have a daily 737 300 on it from bmiBaby, it's a route that has in general had yearly passenger numbers over 100,000. Wizz might actually be a better option for the route than loganair especially with Easyjet being the main competition.

There was a recent interview (a few months back?) where Loganair said the competition from easyJet was too much and EDI/GLA-CWL would be a big loss maker

The problem is that with routes like Jersey and Dublin the airlines the airport needs to engage with and attract already operate to Bristol and in their minds see Wales covered already or due to the downturn see passengers from Wales as a way of making their flights at Bristol more viable.
With Edinburgh i wouldn't be surprised if airline's like loganair and Eastern may want incentives that Cardiff either isn't willing to give or can't. In the long run Wizz might be the better option for these routes.

Pretty sure EDI was double, possibly triple daily some days with WW.

Yeah I’m sure some days there were 3 flights a day to EDI with WW on a 733 plus GLA & CDG too.

Even in the FR days the DUB 732/738 was usually into triple figures .

Interesting article on the Flybe page that mentions CWL-EDI as one of the “potential” routes for Flybe Mk.2.....I wonder if this will happen ?

Cardiff Airport launches COVID-19 testing facility in partnership with Nuffield Health

I know I have asked b4 but what is the updated date for the BHD flights to start up?

Bookable from 24 May.

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EI have CWL listed as a destination on their booking engine. No flights are available to book however. Maybe a future comeback for EI?

Been there since Flybe collapsed I believe. They used to codeshare with Flybe for transatlantic routes. Considering that they are operating Dublin out of 3 of 4 of the SW Britain airports hopefully eventually we might see them return to Cardiff.

Ah ok cool. 👍🏻

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56862694

Great news that you can travel to JER but still no JER flights from Wales !

Can't see there being any for a long time and it may be a route that never returns.

Aer Lingus will return on the Dublin route on 30th August. Good news to see Dublin back!

Hopefully BHD will be next from CWL.

Eastern are due to start that so probably not though I do think Aer Lingus would be the better option personally.

Looks like Wizz won't be starting until 17th June

Excellent news, 3 a week is better than zero, let’s hope they do build up a network of daily flights again like before. Nothing of course from CWL (yet) on this, that marketing team must be all on furlough.

The route isn't onsale yet so they won't announce anything until then. I'd expect that they'll want to do the return of Aer Lingus justice pr wise.

Letsflycwl

CWLs marketing team have been on furlough since the early 2000s 😂

Since American Trans Air operated the B757 & L1011 to New York or was it when Cambrian Airways introduced the 1-11......I just can’t remember

No point in creating any fanfare at the moment because
A) It's not a new route, its a returning route
B) It's not even on sale yet
C) Too much uncertainty over travel corridors to not only Ireland but the USA as well, so there's little confidence in anyone to start booking flights
D) The route doesn't start for just under 4 months so there's plenty of lead in time for people to book.