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Fly from Cardiff – get £23 off

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The Welsh Government is keen to support Cardiff Airport, as it’s very important to have a proper Welsh airport to use. God forbid that proper Welsh people would use the airports at Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham or Bristol. You can’t get to any of those airports without treading on foreign soil.


The Welsh Government has therefore given subsidies of £206m to the airport (which it owns) over the next ten years.


After some debate about how best to use the subsidies, the airport has decided that it will just give every passenger £23 in cash. Travellers will also have the option to take the subsidy in giant Toblerone bars, or, in a concession to Plaid Cymru, Welsh cakes. Passengers are warned that they may not be able to take £23 worth of Welsh cakes on board a plane as hand luggage.


The airport has defended its decision by saying that cold hard cash is the best way to build the customer base. On current passenger numbers, the £23 cash bonus will last for the full ten years. If the number of travellers rises, then the cash bonus might end earlier – but this will, of course, show that the whole scheme has been a brilliant success.


Swansea Airport has complained, and says that if it had the money, it could offer a subsidy of £137 per passenger. It reckons that this would grow passenger numbers much more quickly. Their spokesman also said that Swansea is properly Welsh, unlike all those softies in Cardiff who can’t even speak the language properly.



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