The Welsh Government has put forward plans to offer a £10m fund to airlines wanting to fly from Cardiff Airport to London Heathrow. The fund is for the development of up to 5 routes linking Welsh Government owned Cardiff Airport with Heathrow. Heathrow is the controversially the favoured choice for [read more]
Storm Doris arrived in Wales overnight rounding off a week that has seen heavy fog cause mass diversions and flight cancellations from Cardiff Airport. Citywing have cancelled the daily flight to North Wale and Eastern & Flybe are suffering delays as wind guts up to 87mph batter the UK. All [read more]
Flybe has today announced that the Cardiff to Düsseldorf route will return in summer 2017. The weekly service to the popular German town will operate on Saturdays from the 1st April 2017 and will run until the 28th October 2017. The flight will once again operate as a codeshare with [read more]
Following strong growth in 2016, January 2017 saw yet more passenger numbers growth at Cardiff Airport. The figures for the first month of the year showed a 10% increase compared to January 2016. The figures have been boosted by additional winter routes such as Geneva and Chambéry with Flybe, with [read more]
2017 is going to be an exciting year for Cardiff Airport, here’s why. New airlines/routes: Airline Destination Start Date Cobalt Larnaca LCLK/LCA Summer 2017 Alba Star Palma LEPA/PMI Summer 2017 BH Air Burgas LBBG/BOJ Summer 2017 Norwegian Air Shuttle Tenerife South GCTS/TFS Summer 2017 Blue Islands Guernsey EGJG/GCI 02/05/2017 Iberia [read more]
Among the items on Cardiff Airports 10 year “wish list” are a new terminal and 3 million passengers per year. Cardiff Airport Chairman Roger Lewis revealed his vision for Cardiff Airport today which also included selling off at least part of the airport to the private sector as passenger numbers [read more]
Figures released by Cardiff Airport have shown yet another month of consecutive growth at Wales’ national airport. November saw an 11% increase in passengers using the airport compared to the same period in 2015. This growth brings the rolling 12 month total to almost 1.4m passengers, an 18% growth overall. [read more]
Fog is causing problems at Cardiff Airport and Bristol Airport with flights being cancelled or diverted. Cardiff has seen aircraft diverted to Exeter and Liverpool along with cancellations for Flybe. Bristol meanwhile has suffered its 2nd consecutive day of problems with cancellations from Flybe & Brussels Airlines. Passengers due to [read more]
This week we sat down with Welsh Conservative leader and South Wales Central Assembly Member (AM) Andrew RT Davies to talk Airports, Cardiff Aviation and Air Passenger Duty. Aviation Wales – Hi Andrew, Lets dive straight in, The Welsh Conservatives were very vocal about the Welsh Government buying Cardiff Airport. [read more]
Guernsey based Blue Islands (SI/BCI) will operate a 3 times weekly service from Cardiff (CWL/EGFF) to Guernsey (GCI/EGJB) from 2nd May 2017. Blue Islands operate a fleet of ATR (Avions de transport régional) 42 and 72 aircraft and it is understood that the service will be operated by an ATR72-500 [read more]
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