Flights between Cardiff and Ynys Mon will not resume after a two-year suspension, the Welsh Government has announced. Since 2016, Welsh Government has invested £8.4m on subsidising the service.
The service, which has run since 2007, operated via a public service obligation. It has been suspended since March 2020 due to the impact of the Covid pandemic. It was operated by Eastern Airways and on peak weeks ran 10 services between Monday and Friday.
The business case now shows there is no longer the demand and the impact of the service on the carbon footprint has also been assessed. After the lengthy suspension it will not be restarted and instead the Welsh Government says it will put the money into improving public transport services for the north but admitted that will not come into force immediately. This decision ends the air service permanently and does not allow another operator or business model to take it over.
