| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand 18:04 - Apr 3 with 1755 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
An extra 70,000 flights a year from Luton.
It's a climate emergency you see. |  |
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:49 - Apr 6 with 532 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 09:56 - Apr 5 by Dr_Winston |
The Welsh Government. Turning down money on things we do need like the M4 relief road, spaffing it away on things we don't, like the airport in Barry. |
Central London to London Stansted Airport 36 miles.
Central Swansea to CWL Rhoose 41 miles.
You are being parochial. It is practically Swansea s airport. |  |
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 15:53 - Apr 7 with 409 views | pencoedjack |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 13:32 - Apr 6 by Whiterockin |
Plus if you live in Wales east of the tunnels Bristol is often quicker. |
I flew into Bristol from Dublin Friday afternoon landed at 1300; it took me close to 3 hours to get from Magor to Pencoed.
The Welsh government is not fit for purpose; nobody will invest in Wales, & tourists will spend their money elsewhere unless a relief road is built. |  | | |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 16:40 - Apr 7 with 385 views | Whiterockin |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 15:53 - Apr 7 by pencoedjack |
I flew into Bristol from Dublin Friday afternoon landed at 1300; it took me close to 3 hours to get from Magor to Pencoed.
The Welsh government is not fit for purpose; nobody will invest in Wales, & tourists will spend their money elsewhere unless a relief road is built. |
This is exactly why English tourists have cut down on weekends in West Wales. |  | | |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 17:58 - Apr 9 with 263 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 15:53 - Apr 7 by pencoedjack |
I flew into Bristol from Dublin Friday afternoon landed at 1300; it took me close to 3 hours to get from Magor to Pencoed.
The Welsh government is not fit for purpose; nobody will invest in Wales, & tourists will spend their money elsewhere unless a relief road is built. |
Friday afternoon is the worst time to commute everywhere. You know the old adage.Build a new road and it fills up pretty quick. It is reasonable to assume even with the new road Friday afternoon will be a slog.
I expect there are flights to Dublin from Rhoose.
It is a particularly Welsh thing that we refuse to pay for our own services to save money. Londoners do not have that problem.It is a British rule. Anything outside London is a waste of money.
London has a cable car costing £75 m that crosses the Thames ( for the Olympics) which no one uses.
The airport website says this - "The business already facilitates more than 4,000 jobs in Wales, by ensuring safe and secure Airport operations at Cardiff and St Athan Airports."
It is 41 mile from Swansea folks. Reject second city syndrome. [Post edited 9 Apr 18:16]
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:14 - Apr 9 with 241 views | johnlangy |
I was in Benalmadena two weeks ago and got chatting to a couple from Devon. When they were looking for flights they could have flown from Exeter or Bristol but decided instead to fly from Newquay. The population of Newquay is 25,000.
So people in the West Country have three airports to choose from whereas we have one. With a South Wales population of about 2 million. And it appears many on this forum don't want even that one to exist.
I don't understand why. |  | | |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:31 - Apr 9 with 223 views | Dr_Winston |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:14 - Apr 9 by johnlangy |
I was in Benalmadena two weeks ago and got chatting to a couple from Devon. When they were looking for flights they could have flown from Exeter or Bristol but decided instead to fly from Newquay. The population of Newquay is 25,000.
So people in the West Country have three airports to choose from whereas we have one. With a South Wales population of about 2 million. And it appears many on this forum don't want even that one to exist.
I don't understand why. |
Newquay Airport receives £6m a year in subsidy. If I was a Cornish taxpayer I'd want it shut down if it couldn't afford to pay for itself.
It's a 90 minute drive from Newquay to Exeter. Plenty close enough to not need it. [Post edited 9 Apr 18:36]
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:46 - Apr 9 with 207 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 17:58 - Apr 9 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Friday afternoon is the worst time to commute everywhere. You know the old adage.Build a new road and it fills up pretty quick. It is reasonable to assume even with the new road Friday afternoon will be a slog.
I expect there are flights to Dublin from Rhoose.
It is a particularly Welsh thing that we refuse to pay for our own services to save money. Londoners do not have that problem.It is a British rule. Anything outside London is a waste of money.
London has a cable car costing £75 m that crosses the Thames ( for the Olympics) which no one uses.
The airport website says this - "The business already facilitates more than 4,000 jobs in Wales, by ensuring safe and secure Airport operations at Cardiff and St Athan Airports."
It is 41 mile from Swansea folks. Reject second city syndrome. [Post edited 9 Apr 18:16]
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The dull tawts that run it can't get the numbers up. | |
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 19:19 - Apr 9 with 182 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 18:46 - Apr 9 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The dull tawts that run it can't get the numbers up. |
It is not so easy. South Yorkshire folk will take any help they can get with alternatives much closer than Swansea to Barry. Wales has to compete. Some Swansea fans are old and weak minded and just want to roll over and surrender.
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2025-04-09/government-backs-30m-plan-to-reopen [Post edited 9 Apr 19:19]
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 20:12 - Apr 9 with 168 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
The underperformance has been going on for years and years. There are thousands of provincial airports around the World and there will be know how to sort out a problem like this, the problem we have is jumped up local councillors trying to turn around a commercial undertaking.
Nobody gets sacked if the airport isn't sorted out. | |
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| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 23:29 - Apr 9 with 132 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
| Heathrow, Gatwick and now Luton Airport to Expand on 20:12 - Apr 9 by JACKMANANDBOY |
The underperformance has been going on for years and years. There are thousands of provincial airports around the World and there will be know how to sort out a problem like this, the problem we have is jumped up local councillors trying to turn around a commercial undertaking.
Nobody gets sacked if the airport isn't sorted out. |
The solution is in the hands of the voters of Wales. | |
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