New Routes

Maltese flag carrier, Air Malta is expanded its operations in the UK by adding three new routes to London Southend airport (SEN/EGMC). From 4th May 2018, it will offer a direct service to Malta as well as flights to Cagliari and Catania in Italy. Both Italian routes offer onward connections to Malta. [read more]

With Qatar Airways starting flights from Cardiff Airport on the 1st May we look at the world of opportunities that await the passengers using Wales’ National airport. The first in our series is the Thai capital, Bangkok. Known for its ornate shrines, Buddhist temples and a song sung by Murray head, Bangkok has [read more]

UK holiday airline Thomas Cook is planning to add a series of charter flights to Sri Lanka to its Winter 18/19 program. The flights will operate from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Colombo (CMB/VCBI) in October 2018 and January 2019 using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Colombo is the [read more]

Low-Cost airline Jet2.com has announced it is increasing flights at some airports and adding a new route at East Midlands in the 2nd half of Summer 18. Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) sees increases on 5 routes with Corfu increases to twice-weekly, Iraklion, Mahon and Rhodes to four-times-per-week and Zakynthos up to [read more]

UK Holiday airline TUI is adding flights to Naples and Dubrovnik to its Summer 2019 programme at Cardiff Airport. Naples, Italy was listed recently as an “in-demand” route based on Skyscanner searches leading many to expect a service to the Italian Port, which according to TUI, will also serve a new [read more]

Australian carrier, Qantas (QF/QFA) is will begin its QF10 non-stop Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Perth (PER/YPPH) service tomorrow. Known as “The Kangaroo Route”, the ultra-long-haul flight will take 16hrs 45mins to get to Perth, leaving Heathrow at 13:15hrs and arriving in Western Australia at 13:00hrs the next day. For many, the thought [read more]

Hainan Airlines (HU/CHH) is planning to start an Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) to Beijing  (PEK/ZBAA) service from in 2018. The flight will operate up to 4 times per week with two inbound flights Beijing to Edinburgh going via Dubin (DUB/EIDW), and another two routing from Beijing to Dublin via Edinburgh. It will [read more]

British low-cost airline Jet2 will add Krakow (KRK/EPKK), Poland to its list of destinations from Leeds Bradford (LBA/EGNM) this winter. Leeds Bradford based Jet2 will operate the twice-weekly route from 9th November 2018 using a Boeing 737. Krakow is the second largest city in Poland and is best known for its [read more]