Motion NDM7290 Rebecca Evans

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Recognises the economic and social importance to Wales of Cardiff International Airport.

2. Welcomes that Cardiff International Airport is now responsible for the operation of Anglesey Airport’s passenger terminal facility and recognises the important regional air link between north and south Wales.

3. Recognises that over 1700 people are employed at the Cardiff Airport site and the £250m of GVA benefit it brings to Wales’s economy.

4. Agrees that it is vital for Wales’s trading economy post-Brexit to support Cardiff Airport as part of a high quality, integrated and low carbon public transport system in Wales.

5. Notes the UK Government’s interventionist approach to rescuing Flybe but calls upon the UK Government to go further to boost competitiveness by supporting the cost of regulation at the UK’s smaller airports, as happens across Europe.

6. Calls upon the new UK Government to finally allow the devolution of Air Passenger Duty in full to Wales.