The fanfare about Ryanair returning is just ridiculous, I had no idea it was just a single weekly flight, from a notoriously fickle airline. The public fanfare hinted it would be something rather more widespread than one miserable flight a week!!
Ryanair will set up a "base" anywhere that offers them good fees. They set up at Chania as an Eastern Med base a few years ago. The airport passenger numbers have since increase by around 1/3 from around 1.6million in 2011 to 2.1million year to date for 2014. Chania airports owners put a good deal price on the table to Ryanair, who now fly to 29 destinations from Chania. It also meant I visited my Grandad in October for ^40 each return. Before Ryanair there were once weekly charters from Bristol and Gatwick, and cost me around ^400 each return
I have a few questions about Cardiff Airport
1) someone mentioned there is a railway station nearby - where is that ?
I caught the train to Rhoose last time I used Cardiff and a sign up said the shuttle bus was no longer operating. It was about a 20 minute walk from Rhoose to the airport
There is a bus from Cardiff Central to the airport quite frequently. When I saw it when I was in South Wales in May it was transporting round air.
