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Bristol Airport takes legal action over Cardiff Airport subsidy

Rhodri Clark
19 February 2026
 

Bristol Airport has taken the Welsh Government to a competition tribunal over a planned £205m funding package for Cardiff Airport. The outcome could be of interest to English mayoral authorities which are financially supporting local airports.

Cardiff Airport was owned by local authorities before privatisation in 1995. The Welsh Government bought the airport for £52m in 2012, when passenger numbers had halved from over two million in 2007. The government was concerned about the...

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