Aviation news and insight from Wales
Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has stepped in to safeguard 16 key routes that were left without an operator when Flybe collapsed yesterday. The new routes will see Loganair add nearly 400 flights per week to its schedule. The routes are all Loganair’s hubs at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Newcastle [read more]
Several key regional airports have been left decimated by the collapse of regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) in the early hours of this morning. As a regional airline, Flybe connected smaller airports across the UK with some having over 90% reliance on the brand. Southampton Airport (SOU/EGHI) In 2019, 95% of [read more]
Loss-making Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is seeking a £6.8m extension to the existing loan from the Welsh Government just 12 months after recieving a £21.2m loan facility. Senior Members of the Cardiff Airport board will meet with Ministers in Cardiff Bay today to discuss the fiancial state of the airport which [read more]
Global cargo charter airline AeroTransCargo has selected South Wales based Caerdav to train 60 pilots at Caerdav’s 747 simulator training centre at Cardiff Airport. The cargo airline will use Caerdav’s EASA-approved Boeing 747-400 aircraft simulators to carry out half-yearly recurrent training for its 747 pilots which will include emergency procedures [read more]
The search has resumed today for the missing Cessna 172 and it’s pilot which is believed to have crashed into the sea near Penmore, Anglesey. It is understood that the aircraft was being flown on a flight from Caernarfon Airport to Great Orme and back again when it disappeared near [read more]
Cardiff Airport has secured an agreement to manage passenger services at Anglesey Airport (VLY/EGOV) from December 2019. The airport is located within RAF Valley is the only commercial airport in North Wales, although it only sees two flights per day. The agreement with the Isle of Anglesey County Council will [read more]
A rare visitor to the UK skies graced Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) with its presence today as the Honeywell flying testbed arrived at the Welsh Airport. Boeing 757-200 N757HW is used by Honeywell, amongst other things, to test Jet engines and can carry an engine on an external pod to test [read more]
A 54 year-old man from Llantwit Major has been sent to prison for 32 months after he put the lives of the passengers and crew of a Tui 737 in danger by shining a ‘laser pen’ at it. Micheal Bisgrove of Berry Court, Boverton shone the laser at the Tui [read more]
The chairman of Cardiff Airport, Roger Lewis, is to stand down according to a tweet by Wales’ Minister for Economy and Transport Ken Skates but not before extending his tenure until May 2020. In the tweet Mr Skates said “Grateful to Roger Lewis for agreeing to stay on as Chair [read more]
Growing regional airline Lognair (LM/LOG) has announced that it is launching six new routes from UK airports in 2020 including its first route from Wales. The new routes are the latest to be announced under Loganair’s ‘Where next?’ programme, which is designed to expand the airline’s route network across the [read more]
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