Wales

Cardiff Airport and Flybe have announced a new route from Cardiff Airport for Summer 2016. Flybe will be adding Verona to its growing list of destinations. The following is the press release from Cardiff Airport. Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has today put on sale its 2016 summer schedule from Cardiff [read more]

Thomson Airlines has suspended all flights to Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh resort from Cardiff Airport until at least the 12th November following increasing suspicion that a bomb brought down flight KGL9268 over the Sinai peninsula. Flight KGL9268, which departed Sharm El Sheikh bound for St Petersburg in Russia, crashed into the [read more]

Intra-Wales Air Service operator Links Air has had its Safety Certificate or Air Operators Certificate (AOC) suspended by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) over concerns about operational safety. Links Air operated the Cardiff to Anglessey/Ynys Mons route which was subsidised by the Welsh Government. They also operated the failed Cardiff [read more]

British Airways (BA) Chairman Keith Williams today confirmed BA’s commitement to Wales by opening a new £3.3m Aerospace Centre in Treforest. During the ceremony he also confirmed that maintenance for BA’s new Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft will be carried out at the British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) facility. In the [read more]

This weekend will see 2 Quarter Final matches for the Rugby World Cup played in Cardiff. With Both France and Ireland in action Cardiff Airport will see a significant increase in traffic over the weekend with around 200 extra movements expected. In september Cardiff Airport saw passenger numbers increase by [read more]

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]