Links Air G-JIBO (Credit N Harding)
Cardiff Airport News

Links Air to go into liquidation

Links Air, the former Intra-Wales operator is about to go into liquidation according to information received by BBC Wales. Doncaster based Links Air had its Air Operators Certificate suspended by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority in October 2015 following safety concerns. It then withdrew without notice from the government subsidised [read more]

G-VIIO (Image Credit Aero Icarus / Wikimedia CC)
Aviation engineering news

Fire Damaged British Airways 777 comes home

The fire damaged British Airways 777 is coming home to Cardiff Airport this morning after leaving Victorville in the US late last night (local time). Operating as flight BA2276 to Gatwick on the 8th September 2015 it suffered what the pilot described as a “catastrophic engine failure”. The take-off was [read more]

Two Grob Viking TX Mk1 gliders of 614 Volunteer Gliding Squadron at Wethersfield (Crown Copyright)
General aviation news

Welsh Air Cadets lose Gliding Squadrons

In a restructuring of the UK’s Air Cadets Wales is set to lose its Gliding Squadrons. The move was announced by Julian Brazier MP and means Wales will lose both of its Volunteer Glider Squadrons (VGS), 634 VGS based at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan and 636VGS based [read more]

Andrew RT Davies APD Qoute (Images courtesy of Wales Air Forum)
Cardiff Airport News

Wales United for Air Passenger Duty Campaign

Aviation Wales and Wales Air Forum have united to start a devolved Air Passenger Duty campaign called APD 4 Wales The announcement was made in a press release by the two leading Welsh Aerospace and Aviation sites which said:  Aviation Wales and Wales Air Forum have today announced that they [read more]

Vueling A320 EC-KDX
Cardiff Airport News

Vueling increase capacity from Cardiff Airport

Vueling has today announced it will increase capacity from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) for summer 2016. The boost will see an additional 44,000 seats available across all of Vueling‘s destinations from Cardiff Airport. With the additional seats it means there are 151,000 seats available between April and October 2016. Vueling, which [read more]