Pembrey Airport (EGFP) has announced it is holding a fly-in and fun day on July 8th, 2017. Pembrey Airport have informed us that they are no longer planning any aerobatic events for the 8th July and it is now just a fly-in and fun day. The day which it describes [read more]
Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) are to take over the Cardiff to Anglesey Intra-Wales route “without disruption” according to Welsh Government Economy secretary Ken Skates. The route was left without an operator following the collapse of “virtual airline” Citywing on Friday. The collapse was caused by the suspension of Van Air Europe, [read more]
The Intra-Wales Cardiff to Anglesey route has been left with no operator as “virtual airline” Citywing called in the administrator on Friday. Isle of Man based Citywing took the decision to liquidate the company after Czech based Van Air Europe lost permission to fly in the UK. In the statement [read more]
Sometimes you just meet someone and think, wow, you have a great job! Then you find out how interesting the journey was. That’s exactly how it went when Aviation Wales met our resident AVGEEK, Kath Fisher. After leaving school Kath joined the University of London Air Squadron before joining the [read more]
Cardiff Airport have appointed former Heathrow executive Terry Morgan to an advisory role on the board. Terry Morgan is a highly experience executives in the airport sector having previously been managing director at Stansted and a senior executive at Heathrow. He joins the board in a non-executive role to support [read more]
The Welsh Government has put forward plans to offer a £10m fund to airlines wanting to fly from Cardiff Airport to London Heathrow. The fund is for the development of up to 5 routes linking Welsh Government owned Cardiff Airport with Heathrow. Heathrow is the controversially the favoured choice for [read more]
A Flybe flight has returned to Cardiff Airport after being struck by lightning shortly after departure. Flight BE4585 took off just after 4pm for the short flight from Cardiff to Jersey but was forced to run after the lightning strike as a precautionary measure. The aircraft, a Flybe Embraer E190 [read more]
The formal report by the UK’s Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has concluded the aircraft did not reach the required height and speed to safely carry out the manoeuvre which resulted in the fatal crash at the 2015 Shoreham Airshow. The report released today showed that to safely perform a [read more]
Flying for fun, whether in your own aircraft or a hired one can be expensive. Cutting the cost of general aviation can only be a good thing right? That is exactly what flight-sharing service Wingly is trying to do so Aviation Wales went to meet them at their Paris headquarters. [read more]
GE Aviation Wales has been awarded a contract worth £20m at its plant in South Wales securing not only the future of the site but hundreds of existing jobs as well as creating new ones. GE Aviation Wales plant in Nantgarw repairs and overhauls GE’s range of turbofan jet engines [read more]
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