Airport News
Cardiff Airport boss aims to reach top 10 for UK passenger numbers
Mon, 05 Oct, 2009
A Cardiff Airport boss has said the Welsh Airport is aiming to reach the top 10 for UK passenger numbers, despite falling to 20th place last week.
Southampton Airport overtook Cardiff Airport as Civil Aviation Authority figures showed the number of passengers travelling to and from its terminal fell by almost 300,000 over the course of 2008/09.
Steve Hodgetts, Cardiff Airport business development and commercial director, told the Western Mail: "I'm not going to get aggrieved about going from 19th to 20th."
"I would rather be in the top 10. I think that's the sort of ambition we should be setting for Wales."
He added that he believed passengers would return to Cardiff Airport thanks to the increased number of chartered flights to Egypt this winter and a new weekly service to Orlando being launched in May 2010 by UK airline Flyglobespan.
Flights to Florida with the airline will start at £170 per person.