Cardiff Airport’s commercial viability questioned in Welsh Parliament
24.11.11
A Labour AM challenged the Welsh Government to look urgently at the commercial viability of Cardiff Airport this week, claiming it was in ‘commercial free fall’, the Western Mail reports. In a question to Finance Minister Jane Hutt, Mick Antoniw said that the airport has suffered a disastrous downturn in business at a time when other regional airports were expanding and securing an increasing share of the market.
According to the airport the number of passengers were down from two million in 2007 to 1.4m in 2010, take offs and landings down from 43,000 in 2007 to 25,000 in 2010 and air freight down from 2,400 tonnes in 2007 to just 28 tonnes in 2010. Mr Antoniw, who represents Pontypridd and was himself a council-appointed director of the airport in the 1980s before it was privatised. He said: ‘The airport is a key economic cog for South Wales.
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