Wales’ one and only domestic air route is under threat. Highland Airways‘ twice weekday service between Cardiff and Anglesey has a question mark hanging over it because its operator is facing “difficult trading” conditions. Online booking is currently suspended, according to the BBC. The Beeb also reports that the Welsh Assembly has been supporting the service to the tune of £800,000 per year – that’s over £44 for for every seat available, sold or otherwise, on the 18-seat Jetstream that flies the route. Daft or what? One doesn’t have to wear woad or have hippy parents to sympathise with Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams when she says “[i]t is now time to end this costly debacle before even more public money is poured into a service that is both economically and environmentally unsustainable.”
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It’s a political dilemma.
How to keep remote parts of Wales feeling connected to their capital, when they’re in the top left hand corner of the country, the capital is in the bottom right hand corner and there’s a lot of mountains in between, a lot of windy roads, and a railway line that connects the two that goes through England ….