Cardiff Airport News

The Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling has committed to adding 30,000 more seats from Cardiff Airport as it seeks to increase its capacity for 2016. The move comes as Vueling come towards the end of another succesful year operating from the welsh hub with strong passenger numbers and demand for more [read more]

Irish fans travelling through Cardiff Airport at the weekend played a prank on Cardiff Airport announcers getting them to call out for 3 long dead irish political and revolutionary figures. In a joke that would have been lost on most non-irish passengers (and probably some irish ones too) a group [read more]

Thomson Cruises have announced that they will be operating from Cardiff Airport to Dubai when they start operating their cruises from the Port of Dubai in 2017. Cardiff Airport was chosen as one of six airports that Thomson will operate the fly – cruise holidays from in January & February [read more]

The Welsh Government has announced that the latest part of Cardiff Airports £13million loan from the Welsh Government will consist of £3million from its capital reserves. £2.7million will also be made available to Airbus to create training facilities at Swansea University and Coleg Cambria in Deeside, Flintshire. The money comes [read more]

Summer 2015 saw a 10% increase in passengers at Cardiff Airport comapared to the same period in 2015 according to Cardiff Airport. The welsh hub states that compared to June, July and August 2014 the numbers this year were up 12%, 8% and 10% respectively. Both Thomson and Thomas Cook [read more]

Cardiff Airport based Dragonfly Executive Air Charter is to begin rotary charter operations after taking over the management of a Bell 206 on behalf of a client. Dragonfly, who currently operate a fleet of Beech King Air fixed wing aircraft in the executive charter market, hope that the helicopter will [read more]

The UK Government in Whitehall have raised questions over the Welsh Government’s loans to Cardiff Airport (owned by the Welsh Government) and the fact that they could breach EU guidelines over state-aid to airlines. In what many are describing as a politicaly motivated move ahead of the Welsh Assembly elections, [read more]

Thomas Cook’s (TCX) one-off flight from Cardiff (EGFF/CWL) to Orando International (KMCO/MCO) departed today at 11:45 with an almost full flight. The route, which was a package holiday offering, has proved popular amongst welsh travellers and offers encouragement for future holidays of this type to Florida and other long haul [read more]