Airline news

Cardiff Airport has a hat-trick of airlines in the top 10 world’s safest low-cost airlines with Flybe, Thomas Cook and Vueling all featuring. Australian airline Qantas came top overall in the rankings by website airlineratings.com. Flybe, who have 2 based aircraft at Cardiff Airport, operate a network of routes across [read more]

Cardiff Airport’s (CWL/EGFF) 2017 Sumer season has firmly got underway thanks to the arrival of the summer based aircraft from Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) and Thomson (BT/TOM) along with the first flights by Norwegian & Eurowings on behalf of Thomson. Thomas Cook has once again based an A320 chartered from Avion [read more]

With ever increasing passenger numbers and new routes being introduced by airlines, it is clear that Cardiff Airport has turned the corner from the dark days of TBI Abertis ownership and the lack of investment by the Spanish company. The Welsh Government took ownership of the airport in 2013 and [read more]

Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) have today announced that they are to launch flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) in 2018 to the Qatari capital Doha (DOH/OTHH). Attracting long haul carriers has long been a target for Wales’ National Airport with Thomson and Thomas cook already offering Montego Bay, Orlando and Barbados as [read more]

When Norwegian’s LN-LNG departed back to Oslo yesterday it marked the completion of a maintenance round for 7 Norwegian Long Haul (DU/NLH) Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft carried out by British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC). BAMC is an official Boeing maintenance partner which demonstrates the high standard of work carried out [read more]

The Boeing 737 has the accolade of being the most produced jet-powered aircraft in history and it’s not hard to see why given that the first flight of the type was April 9th, 1967, and they are still making it today! In fact, as of February 2017, 9,401 have been built. [read more]

The ban on laptops and tablets being introduced by the UK and US Governments is based on a credible threat from so-called Islamic State according to US sources. The ban due to come into force in the coming days means all electronics larger than 16cm such as Laptops, Tablets, DVD [read more]

Boeing has had significant interest and positive feedback from United Airlines for their Middle of Market Aircraft (MOMA) proposal, the Boeing 797. Chicago-based United Airlines (UA/UAL) recently took a close look at Boeing’s proposal with United’s Chief Financial Officer (FCO) Andrew Levy saying “What we’ve seen so far is very, [read more]