Airline overbooking has come firmly into the headlines today thanks to United Airline’s forceful removal of a passenger to allow their crew to travel onboard. Whilst, not a true “over-booking” as it was technically just a full flight but staff needed to travel it has raised a lot of eyebrows, [read more]
Cardiff Airport has appointed 2 new directors to the senior management team to deal with their long-term strategic plan. Mark Bailey has been named as Director of Airport Planning & Development while Ceri Mashlan has been promoted to Director of Operations at Wales’ National Airport. The former Head of Operational [read more]
The Boeing 737 has the accolade of being the most produced jet-powered aircraft in history and it’s not hard to see why given that the first flight of the type was April 9th, 1967, and they are still making it today! In fact, as of February 2017, 9,401 have been built. [read more]
Today marked the official handover of the Superhangar facility at MOD St Athan to Aston Martin Lagonda (AML). 12 months ago, the facility beat off 20 other locations to become Aston Martin’s site for the new DBX Sorts Utility Vehicle (SUV) and work has already begun to convert the site [read more]
Today see’s the first flight for Iberia Express to Madrid (MAD/LEMD) from Wales National Airport. The Spanish Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) will operate its first flight (IB3687) from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) at 18:05 this evening arriving in the Spanish capital around 2 hours later. Spain’s capital is a city of boulevards [read more]
DAS Aviation Solutions Ltd announced today on facebook the approval for the Instrument Landing System (ILS) at St Athan has finally been approved for use by the Military Aviation Authority (MAA). However, in a bizarre twist in this story, we spoke to David Smillie, Director of DAS Aviation Solutions Ltd [read more]
Cardiff Aviation will get round the table for talks with the Welsh Government today to discuss the fact that they have never paid rent at their St Athan site, leaving a large debt owed to the Welsh taxpayer. Cardiff Aviation took over the Twin Peaks facility at St Athan in [read more]
The Red Arrows and the RAF Typhoon display team are the latest aircraft to have been confirmed for the 2017 Wales National Airshow. The event which now takes place annually in Swansea Bay has become a hugely popular attraction with over 20,000 visitors over the course of the weekend in [read more]
We ran this article on the morning of April 1st 2017. Whilst many saw straight through it, comments on facebook and other social media suggested many took it in. Obviously, it’s corrected at midday as its only a bit of fun. Everyone knows that if it goes on past midday then [read more]
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