Happy Birthday Cardiff Airport
Cardiff Airport is 70 years old this month. Selma Chalabi traces its fortunes to date, and asks - can the airport compete in today's economic climate, or will the gateway to Wales forever remain in England?
Last updated: 01 April 2012
Gordon Parsons started his career as an accountant at the airport, and took the airport from public to private hands in the mid 1990s. He explains how the airport ran under the first private owner - TBI.
Nick Ramsay AM talks about the Enterprise and Business Committee's inquiry in to connectivity in Wales. He outlines some of the conclusions he expects to draw from the findings.
Keren Winmill is CEO of Biotec Services International, a Bridgend based company with clients all over the world. She talks about the impact of not being able to fly from Cardiff.
The programme compares Cardiff Airport's fortunes with that of Bristol Airport and speaks to its CEO Robert Sinclair about their ambitions to grow their business:
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