Approaching Cardiff with Orbx FTX Wales and UK2000 Cardiff Extreme
Airline news

Flight Sim for Welsh Aviators

Many aviation enthusiasts love to use flight sim too and for fans of Wales and Welsh Aviation, there is an abundance of ways to increase the region. What kind of flight sims are there? The benchmark is still Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X. Although discontinued by Microsoft some years ago it [read more]

Flybe Embraer
Cardiff Airport News

FlyBe Announces New Cardiff Route

Cardiff Airport and Flybe have announced a new route from Cardiff Airport for Summer 2016. Flybe will be adding Verona to its growing list of destinations. The following is the press release from Cardiff Airport. Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has today put on sale its 2016 summer schedule from Cardiff [read more]

Sharm El Sheikh Airport (Wikipedia CC)
Airline news

Egypt Flights Suspended from Cardiff Airport

Thomson Airlines has suspended all flights to Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh resort from Cardiff Airport until at least the 12th November following increasing suspicion that a bomb brought down flight KGL9268 over the Sinai peninsula. Flight KGL9268, which departed Sharm El Sheikh bound for St Petersburg in Russia, crashed into the [read more]

Links Air G-JIBO (Credit N Harding)
Cardiff Airport News

Links Air Has Safety Certificate Suspended

Intra-Wales Air Service operator Links Air has had its Safety Certificate or Air Operators Certificate (AOC) suspended by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) over concerns about operational safety. Links Air operated the Cardiff to Anglessey/Ynys Mons route which was subsidised by the Welsh Government. They also operated the failed Cardiff [read more]