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Taf 11-12-2013 16:04

Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
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Cardiff Airport is to receive a £10m loan from the Welsh government to make improvements to the site.

but

The Welsh government bought the airport for £52m in March!
:confused::confused::confused::confused:

Quote:

The money will be used for a new security area to accommodate new technology and more passengers, a new taxi booking service in arrivals and improved drop off and pick up areas.
So a room with a PC and some chairs in, a phone on the wall, and yet another change to the access road out the front? :confused:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25332200

Russ 11-12-2013 16:12

Re: Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
I was there in May. The place is like a glorified bus station.

Taf 11-12-2013 16:44

Re: Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
They have been fiddling with the place for years: new signage that cost a fortune, announcing it to be an airport (I wondered why there were those aircraft there); changing access routes to the front of the building (they now charge £1 just to allow a car to drop someone off less than a mini-trek away from the doors, tough titty if you're disabled); building car parks further and further away (one is free for 20 minutes but it would take more than that to do the round trip with baggage/kids/a disabled person).

Osem 11-12-2013 16:59

Re: Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
Maybe they should just call it London (Cardiff) and take some of the pressure off real airports... :D

Stuart 11-12-2013 19:10

Re: Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35654133)
Maybe they should just call it London (Cardiff) and take some of the pressure off real airports... :D

Probably quicker for us Londoners to get to than either Luton or Stanstead... :D

Russ 11-12-2013 19:31

Re: Cardiff Airport gets a loan.
 
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Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35654132)
(one is free for 20 minutes but it would take more than that to do the round trip with baggage/kids/a disabled person).

My last visit there involved all 3 - I wasn't sad to be driving away from there.


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