Businessmen from North Wales who catch the new intra-Wales flight from Anglesea to Cardiff Airport could have less than 4 hours in the capital before having to start their journey back, it has been revealed.
Last week iIt was announced that Scottish airline Highland Airways is to operate the new daily air link between Cardiff airport and RAF Valley, Anglesey using a 36 seat plane, with fares from around £50 each way. However, the two return flights per weekday service will be constrained by the RAF base's operating hours when they begin later this year.
The aircraft will be based in Cardiff and could offer business passengers travelling from south to north a useful day's work in Anglesey or Bangor. But as the plane has to leave Valley before 18:00 on its last return journey to Cardiff, this dictates a late-afternoon departure as the second fllight from Cardiff to Anglesey.
Allowing for the one-hour flight time each way, travel between Cardiff and the airport, and check-in for the return journey, passengers flying south to the capital and returning on the same day would therefore only have from about 11:00 to 14:30 in the city. And on Fridays they would have to start back even earlier - at 13:30 - because the RAF shuts Valley airfield at 17:00.
