Passengers down 14% at Cardiff Airport
15.01.11
Passenger numbers at Cardiff Airport dropped by 200,000 last year, with the airport blaming a cut in capacity by bmibaby and the affect of the ash cloud. The number of people using the airport fell 14% in 2010 to 1.4m, down from 1.6m in 2009. The airport said bmibaby's cuts to routes, as part of the wider economic climate, accounted for 180,000 of that figure and May's ash cloud the rest.
Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, and its onward connections to more than 900 destinations, remained the most popular destination for people using the airport. This was followed by Edinburgh, Alicante, Palma and Malaga. The next five most popular were Dalaman, Dublin, Tenerife, Glasgow and Faro.
Spencer Birns, Cardiff Airport's head of commercial operations, said: ‘2011 promises to be a more exciting year for us, with new routes including Funchal, Dubrovnik, Naples and Verona available in the summer, and Swiss-based airline, Helvetic Airways will start operating new four-weekly services from Zurich to Wales in March.’
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