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Cardiff Airport secures new airline to operate routes to Paris and Glasgow
20 Dec 2013 08:30
The publicly-owned airport has signed a deal with CityJet, following the announcement Flybe that it will be withdrawing these routes from January
Cardiff Airport secures new airline to operate routes to Paris and Glasgow
20 Dec 2013 08:30
The publicly-owned airport has signed a deal with CityJet, following the announcement Flybe that it will be withdrawing these routes from January
That's very good news. It also mentions routes to Edinburgh and Jersey in the summer. With it being a new airline for the airport (I think at least), hopefully it might result in one or two other routes being added as well.
On becoming chief executive, Mr Horne told his audience, his priority was to arrest the decline which had been going on for five years.
“It had gone from 2.7m passengers to below a million.
“So, the first priority was to talk to our existing customers, the airlines, and give them the confidence that decline wasn’t going to continue and there was an opportunity for them, going forward, which was vitally important.”
I hope that's a mistake on Western Mail's part and not the chief executive!
Bizarrely, Mr Horne , who I have met, was the bloke in charge at Cardiff during the few years Bristol got its act together and pissed all over Cardiff. And yet he's now , again, in charge. Isn't that like giving the captain of the Titanic a life saving role. To mix metaphors, it's like rewarding the person who was asleep at the wheel. I don't want to have a go Mr Horne personally, but some explanation I think is required
Bizarrely, Mr Horne , who I have met, was the bloke in charge at Cardiff during the few years Bristol got its act together and pissed all over Cardiff. And yet he's now , again, in charge. Isn't that like giving the captain of the Titanic a life saving role. To mix metaphors, it's like rewarding the person who was asleep at the wheel. I don't want to have a go Mr Horne personally, but some explanation I think is required
The welsh government was involved in appoin ting the ceo
Jon Horne ran CWL until 2007 when passenger numbers were at their peak of 2,111,148, the highest they've been.
He seems like a good choice to me.
Agreed. And its not as though he is a one man band without any assistance/board etc. Like the Council, it doesn't all fall with Phil Bale - there's the cabinet and, in the Council, the specialist employees.
I'm surprised they re-hired him, and you could argue that he had the opportunity to change things whilst in he had influence and failed to do so (e.g. Ryanair leaving, landing charges, lack of express buses) although on some level it was probably inevitable from 1997 onwards that Bristol would become the largest airport in the region as this was when much of the framework that allowed Bristol to dominate took place. Essentially before Jon Horne could do that much about it e.g. construction of new terminal (1997-2000) which was pivotal in attracting Go, and subsequently Easyjet.
It seems that CWL is flying in the right direction and that passenger numbers are taking off.
I expect to hit new heights in next two years
Getting back to two million is totaly dependent on persuading a low-cost carrier to base one or more aircraft at the airport. The airport are doing the right things to make that happen - so we'll see.
Personally I think the range of destinations is more important than the raw passenger numbers. Duplicating the Bristol offer is fine but even better would be get links to Middle East and American hub airports.
