Wales

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has ended 2017/18 financial year with 10% growth according to figures released by the airport. The rolling 12 month total (a comparison to the previous 12 month period) 2017/18 saw 1.48 million passengers had used Wales’ national airport, bolstered by the UEFA Champions League final in June [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has appointed Fiona Gunn as a new non-executive director for the airport. Ms Gunn, whose background is retail, has been brought onto the board to help the airport deliver its strategic masterplan which is due for publication shortly. The appointment sees Ms Gunn join 3 other non-executive [read more]

Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert has trained to become cabin crew in his latest Work Experience programme. Rhod joined British Airways to train at the Global Learning Academy near Heathrow Airport in the episode to be broadcast this evening on BBC Wales British Airways trainer Bobby Nazareth kitted Rhod out with [read more]

Qatar Airways will use an Airbus A350 on the first Doha – Cardiff – Doha flight according to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications. In a tweet on Sunday, Salaman Al Shawa said: “What could be more inspiring than listening to whispering of the waves in the ‘Music City’? [read more]

Self-styled Party of Wales, Plaid Cymru said it would introduce a National Airline for Wales if it got control of the Welsh Government at the next assembly elections. Assembly Member Adam Price made the claim during his speech in Llangollen last week. Wales has had two welsh airlines based at Cardiff [read more]

TUI has announced what it describes as its “most ambitious summer programme ever” for Summer 2019 including extra capacity and new routes at Manchester Airport, Birmingham Airport and Cardiff Airport. The UK Holiday company has said it will basing additional aircraft giving an increase in capacity of 110,000 at Manchester, [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]

The investigation into the fatal Red Arrows crash at RAF Valley is continuing today as air accident investigators try to piece together what happened. It was around 13:30hrs yesterday when the Red Arrows took off from RAF Valley to fly back to RAF Scampton, their home base. The Reds had been at [read more]