Cardiff Airport News

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]

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]

FlyBe has announced that Berlin will be a new destination from Cardiff Airport in the early release of its Winter schedule. The new flight will commence on the 2nd November 2016 and will operate twice per week leaving Cardiff (CWL/EGFF) at 10:10 am and arriving at Berlin Tegel (TXL/EDDT) at 13:20 [read more]

3 British Airways aircraft diverted to Cardiff Airport this morning after fog caused diverts from the South East to airports around the UK. The fog caused reduced operations at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London City Airports which was made worse when Heathrow was reduced to a single runway operation [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has hit 1.2m* passengers in the last 12 months, a feat last seen in 2011. The figure comes on the back of 9 months of continuous growth for Cardiff Airport including February 2016 which saw a 68%* rise in passenger numbers, largely thanks French and Irish visitors [read more]

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 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]

One of the most hotly debated topics concerning Wales and in particular, Cardiff Airport is the devolution of Air Passenger Duty (APD), the unfair tax levied by the UK Government on passengers flying from the UK. The Silk Commission report on devolved powers to Wales recommended that Air Passenger Duty [read more]