Swapping a once daily for a twice daily plus an extra route, all properly paid for … that’s a set-bacK? Please explain!

J41 parked up in pride of place at the moment.

A sad day. They tried really hard.

Aer Arann and Eastern have announced ORK, NCL and BRU. Ryanair is still on DUB, bmibaby on JER. Eastern is adding ABZ. baby has already announced 737s on Glasgow and Belfast. So pax figures might actually go up.

Quite right, Spence. It also seems caaardiff is a bit of an insider too.

The Master Plan will be published next week. There’ll be a summary for people on-airport, public meetings throughout the area, a downloadable pdf and so on. Of course, the Plan is not “planning”; it’s a response to a Government White Paper and deals with their policy/predictions/priorities. Public comment and market development could impact the reality – who knows what conditions will be like in 2015 and 2030!

On the current investment, caaardiff has a pretty good grip on it. We do want to avoid putting pax through the bus experience as much as possible … they don’t like it. But never say never.

Actually, this is not the case. In Wales, the airport receives the funding and passes it on to the airline on a per-passenger-carried basis, in arrears. However, the airport is also helping this route in other ways.

You’ll get all the info – right up to 2030 – when the Master Plan is published. Right now, that looks like being in February.

Air Wales will be competing with bmibaby from Cardiff to Belfast but aiming at a different marketplace by serving Belfast City.