BUDGET airline bmibaby is pulling out of Cardiff Airport.
It is stopping operations out of the city this autumn, blaming the economy.
Aircraft will be redeployed to Northern Ireland and the Midlands.
The airline, which is also withdrawing from Manchester, started operating out of Cardiff in winter 2002.
It currently operates nine routes from Cardiff - to Geneva, Faro, Belfast City, Malaga, Murcia, Alicante, Ibiza, Palma and Mahon.
A bmibaby spokesperson said: "In the current economic climate it is essential for bmibaby to focus on airports where the airline already has a strong market presence and where there are strong growth opportunities for the bmibaby business."
Cabin crew and pilots based at Cardiff would be offered the chance to redeploy to the Midlands, said the company.
It also said its 69 staff working for bmibaby at Cardiff Airport had been told on Wednesday they were at risk of redundancy.
Some 44 cabin crew, 24 pilots and one manager had been given 30-day redundancy notices, although the company said it had enough similar positions at East Midlands and Birmingham Airports for them all to directly transfer too if staff decided they wanted to.
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