Cardiff Airport has posted another month of growth boosted by a strong start to the summer season for Wales’ Airport. The figures for July were up 17% on the previous year meaning the total for the current rolling 12 month period is over 1.3 million passengers, a 29% increase overall. [read more]
Cardiff Airport picked up accolades for the “Friendliest Staff” and “Smoothest Security Checks”in a recent Airport Showdown by leading Flight search website Cheapflights. The independent survey of British holidaymakers was conducted in June 2016 and saw Cardiff Airport rank 4th overall, 6 places above local rival Bristol Airport who scored [read more]
Antwerp based VLM Airlines has filed for bankruptcy today. In a statement on its website it said “We are sorry to have to inform you that VLM Airlines NV has filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday 22nd June 2016. All flights are cancelled with immediate effect” VLM was due to operate [read more]
Cardiff Airport has seen 12 months of growth according to the latest figures released today. May 2016 saw an increase of 27% compared to the same period last year which brought the total number of passengers using Wales’ Airport to nearly 1.3m in the last 12 months. The opening of [read more]
A passenger on a Cardiff bound flight from Dublin has been removed from the flight after allegedly taking photographs of the flight attendants during the safety briefing. The unnamed man was asked by Flybe crew to delete the photos but when he said he couldn’t, he was escorted off the [read more]
Stobart Air has confirmed that the Aer Lingus Cardiff to Dublin route is ceasing from the end of october 2016. Aviation Wales contacted Stobart Air after an Aer Lingus customer asked on twitter why they couldn’t book the route in January 2017. Aer Lingus replied stating “the route is not [read more]
VLM Airlines, who will operate the Cardiff Airport to London City Airport route for Flybe, have filed for Bankruptcy protection to restructure its operations after 2015 saw losses totalling 13m euros. The European regional carrier filed for the protection in a Belgian court and asked for 6 months protection from [read more]
Cardiff Airport growth has continued for an 11th month according to figures released today. Compared to the same period in 2015, April saw a 40% rise in passengers using Wales’ only international airport. April saw a new route launched by Flybe to Verona and the return of the summer routes [read more]
Flybe (BEE) has today announced it will commence daily flights to London City Airport (LCY) from Cardiff Airport (CWL) from the 12th September 2016. The move coincides with Network Rail closing the Severn rail tunnel for 6 weeks for work on the line adding over an hour onto the travel [read more]
FlyBe has announced that Berlin will be a new destination from Cardiff Airport in the early release of its Winter schedule. The new flight will commence on the 2nd November 2016 and will operate twice per week leaving Cardiff (CWL/EGFF) at 10:10 am and arriving at Berlin Tegel (TXL/EDDT) at 13:20 [read more]
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