Cardiff airport loses sole direct flights to Paris

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 £50 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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