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Here's some other stats: (all nicked from Jeremy Brookman on Twitter)

CAA Stats July 2018

The airport saw 192,026 passengers use the airport up 11.9% on 2017.

The rolling year was 1,528,248 up 7.5% on 2017.

CAA Stats July 2018 Domestic
Aberdeen 773 +2%
Anglesey 1496 +17%
Belfast City TBA
Edinburgh 9475 +6%
Glasgow 2621 +15%
Guernsey 629 -8%
Jersey 2187 +17%
Newcastle 1219 +6%

CAA Stats July 2018 European and International
Larnaca 3475
Paphos 1474 +5%
Paris CDG 8131 +47%
Tarbes-Lourdes 164 -27%
Berlin TXL 1430 -31%
Braunschweig 45
Dusseldorf 470 16%
Munich 1491 -17%
Corfu 1496 +2%
Heraklion 1859 +28%
Kefallinia 1839 +27%
Kos 1229 -26%
Rhodes 2661 -2%
Zakinthos 4846 -2%
Cork 1496 -11%
Dublin 9659 +9%
Milan MXP 2735 -16%
Rome FCO 1678 -11%
Venice 1393
Verona 1201 -26%
Amsterdam 13,060 +14%
Faro 8558 +11%
Alicante 10,603 +2%
Barcelona 3559 -20%
Ibiza 6029 -8%
Madrid 2340 +21%
Mahon 3093 -31%
Malaga 10,389 +4%
Palma de Mallorca 19,512 -1%
Reus 3266 +15%
Arrecife 4436 -1%
Las Palmas 1466 -32%
Tenerife South 7269 +3%
Antalya 2723
Dalaman 7414 +62%
Burgas 4895 -2%
Doha 10,060

Top 10 routes for July 2018
1. Palma de Mallorca 19,512
2. Amsterdam 13,060
3. Alicante 10,603
4. Malaga 10,389
5. Doha 10,060
6. Dublin 9659
7. Edinburgh 9475
8. Faro 8558
9. Paris CDG 8131
10. Dalaman 7414

I thought Qatar would hurt KLMs connections through Amsterdam but it obviously hasn't. Flybe isn't doing well though with their European city routes (Berlin, Munich, Milan, Verona ...).

halfnhalf wrote:you are only permitted to wish the airport well on this forum
he was just trying confuse the thought police hahaha

Thought Police? - hardly, but you've got a knack of winding everyone up - in all fairness everyone has been very polite on here and I rarely need to intervene. You are antagonistic and usually at the centre of this place becoming less pleasant oh and resort to swearing when it's generally not encouraged here.

Anyway I'm sorry to be guilty of veering off topic but couldn't let yet another barbed comment go un-noticed and needed to give my feelings on behaviour I think visitors to my forum probably expect.

The Wales Sub reddit has an interesting link to a leaflet delivered to neighbouring areas regarding the redevelopment of the terminal and a consultation

https://imgur.com/gallery/bO3ljE4

so something is moving forward but probably at a snails pace

Jeremy wrote:The Wales Sub reddit has an interesting link to a leaflet delivered to neighbouring areas regarding the redevelopment of the terminal and a consultation

https://imgur.com/gallery/bO3ljE4

so something is moving forward but probably at a snails pace

Interesting to see that the Masterplan has a path to be kept clear in the hope of a future rail link.

You can download the whole pdf from the Cardiff Airport website. They had a big display in the departures lounge just over a week ago when I was there. There's public events in the upcoming weeks in Cardiff and Barry to present the draft plans and to hold a open Q&A. Dates etc on the website.

Ryanair are starting a new route to Malta from late April next year. I believe it'll be twice weekly.

To really start growing Cardiff Airport need Ryanair to add more routes, even Bournemouth airport have 7 routes. Or easyJet to add a few. I'm not sure what's being done to entice them if anything but I feel we'll have slow growth for a few years after this otherwise.

I think it's difficult because both EasyJet and Ryanair run the majority of routes from Bristol. Ryanair seem to be adding one route a year.

I suspect Ryanair are testing the market. The breakthrough would come if they chose to base one or more planes at Cardiff. The problem for both Ryanair and Easyjet, as Lewis points out, is that by increasing sevices from Cardiff they risk canabalising their Bristol operations.

I think its more likely that we'll see a smaller budget operator like Jet2 establish a base at Cardiff. The real game changer though would be Norwegian, who are snapping at Ryanair and Easyjet's heels in terms of passenger numbers and who also do long-haul and Trans-Atlantic flights.

August statistics are in:

202,405 passengers used the airport up 11.1%. The rolling year was 1,548,474 up 8% on 2017.

11,568 passengers used the Qatar route. That's an average of 187 per flight (74.8%).