Aviation news and insight from Wales
British Airways’ Landor livery was perhaps the most iconic of all their liveries and it will be the third one in the fleet of retro jets marking the 100th Anniversary of the airline. Boeing 747-400 G-BNLY is being repainted in Dublin and will carry the iconic livery and the name [read more]
Some Thomas Cook customers who have booked flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) this summer have been forced to take alternative flights after the Airline decided to cut several flights from the schedule. Passengers have been offered new flights, in many cases from rival Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) after they were contacted [read more]
Global Trek Aviation has chosen Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) to be its second location as it expands its Fixed Based Operator (FBO) services beyond Belfast. The company will join existing FBO, Signature Flight Services, on the south side of the Airport in April and will focus on attracting fuel-related transit flights. [read more]
Thomas Cook (MT/TCX) is increasing its summer capacity at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) by using an Airbus A321 aircraft for Summer 2019. The Airbus A321 is the stretched variant of the A320 that normally operates from the airport but it still isnt a Thomas Cook aircraft. Like the A320, the A321 [read more]
British Airways has bid a final farewell to the iconic Boeing 767-300 aircraft that have served the airline for over 28 years. The final commercial flight left Larnaca, Cyprus on Sunday evening before the fleet was sent to end of life specialists eCube based at MOD St Athan in Wales. [read more]
Sources close to Airbus have said that the Airbus A330-800neo could begin its certification program as early as next week after undergoing ground testing this week. The ground tests included testing the British made Rolls Royce Trent 7000 engines on the initial aircraft. The aircraft will need to carry out [read more]
Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has reported strong late summer growth with 178,681 passengers using the airport in September. The number represents a 7% increase on the same period last year at Wales’ national airport bringing the passenger figure for the last 12 month period to 1.56m. 2018 has seen a number [read more]
Irish budget airline (FR/RYR) is increasing its presence at Cardiff Airport for Summer 2019 as it doubles the number of routes to 4. In addition to the recently announced route to Malta (MLA/LMML) it will also fly to Barcelona (BCN/LEBL) in Spain from April 2019. The airline already flies to [read more]
The daily Qatar Airways service from Doha (DOH/OTHH) to Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is on target for a 65% load factor in its first year of operation. The news comes as figures are released for its first 4 full months of operation and they show that the route has grown each [read more]
Belgian aircraft materials manufacturer Solvay has said it plans to create up to 50 jobs in North Wales as it expands its adhesives, surfacing films and lightning strike protection operations. The state-of-the-art facility in Wrexham will manufacture aerospace structural adhesives and surfacing films at the new site which was inaugurated on the [read more]
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