The announcement of additional public spending on Cardiff Airport is decried by some. But there are positives for the region and nation

Ken Skates, the Welsh Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Transport, and North Wales, has released a long-term strategy for Cardiff Airport. This commits the government to making a maximum £206mn investment in the airport over the next decade. As always, with any government spending on Cardiff Airport, this has provoked a mixed reaction.

In Skates’s written statement, the strategy is set out with two main objectives. First, to attract and grow the aviation and aerospace business linked to the airport. And second, to have a programme of route development that focuses on connectivity to global air hubs and destinations of economic importance to Wales.