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Lewisbeecham wrote:Flybe are dropping Berlin 100%. There will be some scheduling changes from Winter 2019, it's likely Flybe will cut Munich, Rome, Venice etc and increase the frequency on well performing shorter routes such as Edinburgh, Paris, Dublin etc. Flybe need to save money where they can. It's quite likely a service to Manchester will start to feed into Virgin's long haul network. Expect to be able to book Virgin package holidays from Cardiff to North America etc via Manchester shortly. I'd put good money on Ryanair picking up the Rome, Berlin and Venice routes. Ryanair picked up Barcelona from Vueling when they decided to end the route to concentrate on other routes.
Thomas Cook still have more seats for sale this year compared to last year.
If you ask me if all of the above happened Cardiff Airport is in a much better situation.
The airport is 100% going in the right direction and can be seen as probably on of the welsh governments only success story recently. As for routes I think we will see Ryanair pick up Rome for summer 2020 but not Venice as they currently don’t have a base there also can’t see Berlin by them either as the numbers simply aren’t there. I can see them going for another few routes maybe to compete with Vueling.
Would be good to see if they could get a Florida route back for summer 2020 but realistically I can only see Thomas Cook going for that.
There is defently the chance of something through Manchester coming to feed virgin through Flybe but we will have to see what Virgins plan is for Flybe