Cardiff Airport - recent developments, including road and railbus links - ongoing discussion

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[LiskeardRich]

The fanfare about Ryanair returning is just ridiculous, I had no idea it was just a single weekly flight, from a notoriously fickle airline. The public fanfare hinted it would be something rather more widespread than one miserable flight a week!!

Ryanair will set up a "base" anywhere that offers them good fees. They set up at Chania as an Eastern Med base a few years ago. The airport passenger numbers have since increase by around 1/3 from around 1.6million in 2011 to 2.1million year to date for 2014. Chania airports owners put a good deal price on the table to Ryanair, who now fly to 29 destinations from Chania. It also meant I visited my Grandad in October for ^40 each return. Before Ryanair there were once weekly charters from Bristol and Gatwick, and cost me around ^400 each return

I have a few questions about Cardiff Airport

1) someone mentioned there is a railway station nearby - where is that ?

I caught the train to Rhoose last time I used Cardiff and a sign up said the shuttle bus was no longer operating. It was about a 20 minute walk from Rhoose to the airport
There is a bus from Cardiff Central to the airport quite frequently. When I saw it when I was in South Wales in May it was transporting round air.

[chrisr_75]

I think my point was that Ryanair can't really be relied upon to stay put, they're very fickle if they don't get their own way. However if they make a success of it, they can be very good for business development as per your example. One weekly flight suggests to me it's a bit if a token attempt if I must be honest! The main problem for Cardiff is that it's just too close to Bristol and there doesn't appear to be sufficient traffic to support both.

I have also used the bus to Rhoose station from the airport and seem to recall reading in the local news a little while ago that it had stopped.

The bus to Cardiff Central is universally ridiculed locally for running pretty much empty for most of the time!