Cardiff Airport: Welsh government plan to buy from TBI

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The Welsh government wants to buy Cardiff Airport from its current owners, First Minister Carwyn Jones has announced.

He said an agreement had been reached with owner TBI and it will work towards a purchase over the next few months.

The airport would be run on a commercial basis by an independent operator on behalf of the government.

It will not receive subsidies and should make a "return to the Welsh taxpayer", Mr Jones said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20769091

[Anmer]

Bit too little too late.

Bristol's ate Cardiff's lunch and dinner.

Try getting there.

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CWL needs more than the Welsh Assembly buying it and then renting it out to someone to run it for them before it will succeed.

Its my local "Airport" I use those words loosely     In the last seven years since being in the wilds of nowhere I have used it twice to go to Paris. The place doesn't even have a chemist/pharmacy airside so if you travel light you have no hope of picking up basic toiletries unless the newsagent has any left... Its all very well saying you can fly anywhere you like from there but going via Amsterdam adds hours to the travel time. Much easier to drive to Bristol or even London to fly as I regularly have to.

Problem with Cardiff is that Bristol have cornered the market on lo-co, but the main issue is that there isn't the population to support the airport. Yes people will come for their bucket and spade flight to the Med, but day to day there are not enough people to support it turning in to a major airport for the major carriers to be interested in it, even with subsidies.

Lots of lovely tax payers money will be thrown in to this money pit....

Rant over 

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A very accurate rant.