Business minister calls on owners to invest in Cardiff Airport
24.03.12
Business Minister Edwina Hart has offered the possibility of Welsh Government cooperation with under-fire Cardiff Airport, but stressed it would have to provide more investment, Wales Online reports. The news comes after the airport airport, struggling with falling passenger numbers and the loss of airlines, was the subject of two separate attacks from First Minister Carwyn Jones in the space of a week.
Appearing before the National Assembly’s Enterprise and Business Committee, Ms Hart said the Welsh Government could assist the airport, but, like Mr Jones, said she had little confidence in its current owners.
Giving evidence to the committee’s inquiry into international connectivity through Welsh ports and airports, Ms Hart said she wanted to see the airport at the heart of the proposed aviation enterprise zone centre around St Athan. She told AMs: ‘The airport will be a key player, but in order to be a key player you have to be interested in making your own business work, and there’s always a lot of discussion of what government can give in terms of cash and inducements, but a company’s really got to be willing to think of itself what routes it needs to go for, what it needs to do, not necessarily with our assistance but perhaps with our assistance.'
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