Today marked the end of an era for the Royal Air Force (RAF) BAe Hawk T1 Trainer aircraft as 208(R) Squadron at RAF Valley flew for the final time. The Hawk T1’s have been in service with the RAF for 40 years as an advanced jet trainer and have been [read more]
Cardiff City Heliport has been given a new lease of life today thanks to the owners of Caernarfon Airport. Huw Evans and Roy Steptoe have a signed a lease for 50 years to operate the heliport which is owned by Cardiff City Council. The Heliport which is located next to [read more]
A Major Incident took place at Cardiff Airport today due to a civilian aircraft that was unable to communicate with Air Traffic Control. The RAF confirmed that it had scrambled two RAF Typhoon Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) aircraft to intercept an “unresponsive” aircraft. The Aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 300 (CL30 [read more]
A Major Incident took place at Cardiff Airport today due to a civilian aircraft that was unable to communicate with Air Traffic Control. The RAF confirmed that it had scrambled to RAF Typhoon Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) aircraft to intercept an “unresponsive” aircraft. The Aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 300 (CL30 [read more]
Airbus has improved the wing assembly procedure for the Airbus A350XWB at its Broughton plant in North Wales. When Airbus designed the wing for the A350 it was designed to be built horizontally as opposed to the traditional vertical build. The advantage being the wing never has to be rotated [read more]
The number of people using Cardiff Airport has risen again in March continuing the trend in growth compared to 2015. The end of March saw a 29% increase compared to the same period in 2015 meaning Cardiff Airport has now seen 10 consecutive months of growth and follows February which [read more]
Istanbul based Freedbird Airlines (FH/FHY) has been confirmed as the operator for the weekly Thomson flight from Cardiff (CWL) to Dalaman (DLM) this summer. The Airline which started life in June 2000 operates an 8 strong fleet of modern Airbus A320 aircraft and carries out charters across Europe and the [read more]
Flybe (BEE) has today announced it will commence daily flights to London City Airport (LCY) from Cardiff Airport (CWL) from the 12th September 2016. The move coincides with Network Rail closing the Severn rail tunnel for 6 weeks for work on the line adding over an hour onto the travel [read more]
A Committee of Assembly Members (AMs) has concluded that Cardiff Airport lacks long-term plans compared to other UK airports such as Glasgow Prestwick which plans up to 8 years ahead. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) investigated the purchase and progress of Wales’s only international airport which was bought in 2013 [read more]
Exeter-based UK Airline Flybe has topped the UK airlines charts, however, no UK airline made it into the Best Airlines 2015 Top 10. The chart by eDreams analysed results from 90,000 travellers to find the rankings of best airlines with Luxembourg’s Luxair coming out on top. Flybe beat both British [read more]
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