According to research carried out by the TaxPayers Alliance, the UK Government has raked in £3.1bn in summer holiday taxes. The research is based on all aspects of summer holidays from pre-holiday shopping, Insurance Premium Tax and Air Passenger Duty on flights. Air Passenger Duty has been in the news [read more]
Easyjet – Inside the Cockpit is a new fly-on-the-wall series on ITV following trainee easyJet pilots as they take their first steps flying for the airline. Easyjet, the UK’s biggest airline, launched its largest ever pilot recruitment drive this year including a focus on encouraging more women to apply for [read more]
Aer Lingus has unveiled what it says is its largest ever winter flights schedule, including 350 extra transatlantic flights where capacity will grow by 13pc. This is aided by the introduction of a new Airbus A330-300, which will be in operation for the full 2017/18 winter season. This is aided [read more]
Friday afternoon saw two special visitors arrive at Cardiff Airport from The Qatar Emiri Air Force. Arriving in from Paris Le Bourget and London Gatwick respectively, were two Boeing C17 Globemaster III’s. A7-MAN arrived first touching down at around 15:20hrs (local time) after flying from Le Bourget. This was shortly followed by [read more]
On Wednesday 10th August, leading low-fares airline Flybe (BE/BEE) cancelled its route between Cardiff Airport and London City Airport. In their press release, they cited Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the reason. Despite this “Local Champion” Alun Cairns MP has repeatedly voted to raise APD and opposed devolving it to [read more]
Flybe (BE/BEE) has today confirmed that it is ending the popular Cardiff Airport to London City route at the end of October. Aviation Wales contacted the airline yesterday following sources close to flybe stating that the route was being scrapped. Their spokesperson told us “It is with regret that Flybe [read more]
Former British Airways Pilot Cat Burton talks about her career in aviation and how diversity in aviation, in particular towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT), helped her fly as the person she really is. I just retired from my 45-year career as a British Airways pilot, having joined Cardiff [read more]
The Royal Air Force aerobatics display team, The Red Arrows, wowed crowds on Barry Island yesterday. Despite weather looking questionable, hundreds turned out for the display which was organised by Barry Tourist Railway and was the penultimate display in Wales for the 2017 Red Arrows, their final one being at Rhyl [read more]
The Royal Air Force has confirmed that Hawk T2 aircraft from RAF Valley will operate at Llanbedr Airfield between the 7th and 11th August. The aircraft, from RAF Valley’s 4(R) Squadron, will operate from Llanbedr to avoid noise over the National Eisteddfod of Wales which is being held on Anglesey. A spokesperson [read more]
Saad Hammad, the previous Chief Operating Officer of Flybe, created “Project Blackbird” to resolve the problem of nine Embraer E195 in the fleet whose capacity at 118 seats had proved too large for the route structure. Cardiff Airport is the beneficiary of two and their presence has been a boon [read more]
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