A former airline boss says Cardiff Airport was built in the wrong place to attract enough passengers to make it viable. David Bryon, an ex-director of BMI Baby, also said that no-one in their "right mind" would invest in the airport.
He was speaking after the airport was dealt a significant blow when Wizz Air announced it was permanently closing its base, just nine months after launching a base there. You can find more details on that here.
When it first launched owners spoke of their hopes of eventually introducing new routes from the Welsh base, but just three months later cancelled the majority of its services for six months, before eventually announcing it was completely withdrawing from the airport citing "the challenging macro-economic environment and high operational costs".
