When Citywing collapsed last Friday the Public Service Obligation (PSO) Cardiff to Anglesey route was left without an operator and passengers without transport. Immediately it was announced that tickets would be valid on trains in the interim. On Sunday, just 2 days later, the Welsh Government announced that Eastern Airways [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]
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]
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]
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]
A Flybe Dash 8 aircraft, believed to be G-JECP has crashed on landing at Amsterdam airport following a flight from Edinburgh BEE1284 In a video shot by an aviation enthusiast the right hand main landing gear appears to collapse on landing during a windy touchdown at Amsterdams Schiphol Airport. A [read more]
The European air framer, Airbus has started retiring the Airbus A380’s used for flight testing with the transfer of MSN4 (F-WVND) to the Musée de l’air et de l’espace (Museum of Air and Space) at Le Bourget, Paris. The Airbus A380, whose wings are made in Wales is the worlds [read more]
When thinking about flying in Wales it is all to easy to think of jumping on an airliner from Cardiff Airport for a week on the beach on the Costa Del Sol but is that really all that’s available? With a healthy, and growing General Aviation (GA) in Wales the [read more]
UK Transport secretary and Conservative MP Chris Grayling recently hailed Cardiff Airport as “a great success story and I pay tribute to all of those involved in it” yet his westminster colleague Alun Cairns, who is not only the Welsh Secretary but also the MP responsible for Vale of Glamorgan [read more]
As the Wales bill passed through the house of lords the argument regarding Air Passenger Duty (APD) was raised once again with many Lords adding their voices to the argument that at the very least, Long Haul APD should be devolved.. Air Passenger Duty is a tax imposed by the [read more]
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