Cardiff Airport have confirmed that CityJet will be ending their flights to Edinburgh and Paris on 29th June 2015. CityJet started operations at Cardiff Airport following the withdrawl of FlyBe in 2014 however FlyBe have since made a major commitment to Cardiff including a new Paris Route. CityJet have cited [read more]
Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cardiff Aviation and Air Djibouti the Vale of Glamorgan based company will set up an airline in the African country. The airline will initially be freight based but with a strong view to starting passenger operations at a later date. Cardiff [read more]
With just under a week to go before the bi-annual Wales National Airshow gets underway on Swansea sea front we bring you everything you need to know about whats flying and what to see. The RAF Red Arrows will be based at Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL) for the weekend as [read more]
In what can only be described as a bizarre decision the Airport Commision has today concluded that the best option for Airport Expansion in the UK is a 3rd Runway at London’s Heathrow. The preferred option will see a new runway to the north of Heathrow airport wiping out the [read more]
Cardiff Airport and AEROS flying school are hosting a “Fly-In” event on the 9th August 2015 to raise money for Wales Air Ambulance. The event is open to all private light aircraft with a maximum weight of 2 tonnes and the event is being offered with a reduced landing rate [read more]
Llanbedr Airfield in North Wales was the setting for a spectacular stunt by Red Bull Air Race and Red Bull Matadors Pilots Paul Bonhomme and Steve Jones. The British pilots flew through a hangar on the airfield in formation at 180mph last week in the latest Red Bull stunt. Bonhomme, [read more]
Cardiff Aviations Bruce Dickinson is close to starting an (Aircraft Crew Maintenance and Insurance) ACMI operation based out of the UK with his other venture, VVB Aviation. The airline which is described as being an “Airline in a Box” service is currently undergoing assessment for an EASA Operators Licence and [read more]
Links Air has dropped the Cardiff to Norwich Route just 2 months after it began citing poor passengers numbers as the reason. The airline has carried just 700 people since it began, well below the 1000 needed to break even and Roger Hage from Links Air stated “we had to break [read more]
Flybe have announced their Winter Schedule for 2015/2016 from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) and this includes the return of a weekly flight to the French Alps ski resort of Chambery. Other destinations that are included in their winter schedule from Cardiff are: Belfast Cork Dublin Düsseldorf Edinburgh Faro Geneva Glasgow Jersey [read more]
FlyBe’s new routes from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) have got underway with the newly based Embraer E195 aircraft. BE4501 departed Cardiff at 06:45am this morning for Edinburgh. The flight was operated by FlyBe’s Embraer E195 G-FBEI which is the first of two of the type to be based at Cardiff to [read more]
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