This is fantastic news! I’ve said before that Cardiff should seek to act as a spill-over from Heathrow and if this route proves successful, I can see more airlines coming to Cardiff. It’ll be interesting to see how KLM respond, given their established presence.
There’s an interesting point raised in this article:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/b ... t-12938235“There are currently nearly a million passengers from the west of Britain, who have to travel to London airports each year to use Qatar Airways’ network of flights.”
That’s a lot of people going up to London! As someone who has done a lot of long-haul travel to the Middle East and Australia, I can say that there’s nothing worse than trying to get back from Heathrow after a 7 or 24-hour flight! It’s awful!
Connections to the Middle East, Singapore, India and Australia/New Zealand are exactly the sort of connections we need in the post-Brexit world. I know a lot of Cardiff-based engineers who will be thrilled by this news.