UK airport gets £206m boost despite losses it aims for two million passengers every year

Cardiff Airport will soon be injected with over £206 million to boost passenger numbers (Image: Getty) Cardiff Airport will soon be injected with over £206 million to boost passenger numbers and improve facilities, the economy minister has announced - despite losing millions of pounds in the last financial year. Welsh Labour Assembly Member Ken Stakes says that the airport would aim to serve two million passengers a year and develop its maintenance, cargo and sustainable aviation facilities as part of the ten-year funding deal. The airport has been in public ownership since 2013 but Mr Skates said it would be for its management to spend the money “with commercial freedom”.

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