Cardiff airport has taken a massive blow after losing its sole direct flights to Paris Orly.
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00:00 Cardiff Airport has taken a massive hit after losing its sole direct flights to Paris.
00:07 Eastern Airways confirmed its final flight from Cardiff to Paris will take place on Saturday
00:11 March 30th, but has said it will continue to run charter flights from the airport as
00:15 and when required.
00:17 Cardiff Airport was bought by the Welsh Government in 2013 for over ÂŁ50 million. The nationalisation
00:22 of the airport has been questioned at times with a number of multi-million pound loans
00:26 from the Welsh Government to the airport for operational and infrastructure costs.
00:31 The airport currently has flights to locations like Dublin, Amsterdam and a number of Mediterranean
00:35 holiday destinations, but losing Paris will be seen as a big blow for the airport.
00:42 Passengers will now need a connecting flight in Amsterdam in order to fly from Cardiff
00:46 to Paris.
00:47 The airport has yet to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels of flights with only roughly half of
00:52 the 1.6 million flights in 2019, now standing at 837,000 in 2023.
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