Cardiff Airport News

Wales Online is today reporting on an incident which happened on Vuelings Palma flight on the 11th august 2015 where cancer patient Rhian Journeaux, 45 was told to get off the plane as there was no seat for her. Rhian had booked for herself and her family to travel to [read more]

The Dublin based low-cost carrier Ryanair has announced it will be offering 25 flights between Cardiff and Dublin during September and October 2015 to cater for the Rugby World Cup. The airline, which uses all Boeing 737-800 aircraft, currently flies weekly from Cardiff to Tenerife and the new route, albeit [read more]

With just under a week to go before the bi-annual Wales National Airshow gets underway on Swansea sea front we bring you everything you need to know about whats flying and what to see. The RAF Red Arrows will be based at Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL) for the weekend as [read more]

Cardiff Airport and AEROS flying school are hosting a “Fly-In” event on the 9th August 2015 to raise money for Wales Air Ambulance. The event is open to all private light aircraft with a maximum weight of 2 tonnes and the event is being offered with a reduced landing rate [read more]

Links Air has dropped the Cardiff to Norwich Route just 2 months after it began citing poor passengers numbers as the reason. The airline has carried just 700 people since it began, well below the 1000 needed to break even and Roger Hage from Links Air stated “we had to break [read more]

Flybe have announced their Winter Schedule for 2015/2016 from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) and this includes the return of a weekly flight to the French Alps ski resort of Chambery. Other destinations that are included in their winter schedule from Cardiff are: Belfast Cork Dublin Düsseldorf Edinburgh Faro Geneva Glasgow Jersey [read more]

FlyBe’s new routes from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) have got underway with the newly based Embraer E195 aircraft. BE4501 departed Cardiff at 06:45am this morning for Edinburgh. The flight was operated by FlyBe’s Embraer E195 G-FBEI which is the first of two of the type to be based at Cardiff to [read more]

Cardiff Airport have confirmed that CityJet will be ending their flights to Edinburgh and Paris on 29th June 2015. CityJet started operations at Cardiff Airport following the withdrawl of FlyBe in 2014 however FlyBe have since made a major commitment to Cardiff including a new Paris Route. CityJet have cited [read more]