A travel expert has described Cardiff Airport's location as "not sustainable at all" and suggested a move to a new area. The Independent's travel correspondent Simon Calder argued that building an airport between Cardiff and Newport would "absolutely transform" Welsh aviation.
The journalist was speaking on a BBC show in which Wales' former economy minister Ken Skates revealed the Welsh Government may have considered selling Cardiff Airport if not for the Covid pandemic. The government bought the airport for £52m in 2013 to "secure its future" after a drop in passenger numbers but it is now valued at just £15m.
Mr Calder told Politics Wales it had been a "heck of a struggle" to find a viable business plan for Cardiff Airport, adding: "As a nation Wales needs an international airport and Cardiff is the obvious place to put it. But I'm very sorry that the current location is not sustainable at all and something with good rail and road links, maybe between Cardiff and Newport, would be the solution. That would absolutely transform aviation in the nation."
