BA seeks all clear
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BRITISH AIRWAYS have soug authority for an inland clearan depot at Cardiff, and are activ pursuing the possibility of ent ing the international ro haulage market.
A BA spokesman confirm this week that the airline has a plied for HM Customs and E cise permission for the ICD on 47,000 sq ft site (much of it' f parking) two and a half mil from Rhoose Airport, near C dill. It would serve South Wal and the South Midlands, a would be the first ICD in Wales Sh_e added that a custo bond which the airline had Rhoose for around 30 years, w transferred to another operat in April, following BA's earli withdrawal of passenger s vices from the airport, and t planned ICD would give 20 st there a permanent job.
It is not clear when Custo approval may be given for t plan, but BA hopes to have open within three months.
It plans to operate the site self, but to make its facilif open to TIR operators and trl ers. And the airline, which suffered from the general rec sion in freight traffic, is also c sidering launching its own ro freight service between Rhaq and European destinations.
BA says it believes it must t to cash in on the switch from to surface freight for mar European journeys, and says it convinced that it has "so thing to offer" freight custom which they cannot have at sent.
The airline says that its ma research has shown there demand for around 200 lorn month through Rhoose, claims already to have recei applications for space at an from several cargo agents.