Opinion

Its 31st December 2020, that final day of a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. A year that we should forget, but we never will. It started as a positive year, in fact it was expected to be a record year for air travel with almost [read more]

As much as airlines have been hit by the Corona pandemic, the same can be said of Air Traffic Control (ATC). Income is mostly obtained from aircraft movements, it therefore follows when such movements are down so is the cash flow to ATC! This has been compounded in Europe by [read more]

Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]

Ryanair has been ranked the worlds worst airline again by Which? for the sixth year in a row and with it came the the surge of “I hate ryanair” posts on social media. But really, who cares? Passengers clearly don’t, Passengers numbers with the Irish budget airline were up 8% [read more]

The Intra-Wales air service started out in 2007 to provide an air route between North Wales (Anglesey VLY/EGOV) and South Wales (CWL/EGFF). One of its roles was to make it easier for Welsh Assembly Members (AM’s) to travel between the two ends of the country and allow North Wales AM’s [read more]

With ambitious aims to reach 2 million passengers by 2020 and 3 million by 2025, we look at what Cardiff Airport needs to do to achieve this. Recent passenger figures showed Cardiff Airport grew by 9% in 2017 which, comparing to other airports around the UK is around the average [read more]

One of the hottest topics we get asked about on social media and in emails is why do holidays cost more flying from Cardiff Airport. So we decided to have a look at whether this was actually true, is flying from Cardiff Airport a rip-off? Holiday companies have been under [read more]

On Wednesday 10th August, leading low-fares airline Flybe (BE/BEE) cancelled its route between Cardiff Airport and London City Airport. In their press release, they cited Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the reason. Despite this “Local Champion” Alun Cairns MP has repeatedly voted to raise APD and opposed devolving it to [read more]