Wales Air Ambulance will open their 4th base in Wales on August 1st when their new helicopter becomes fully operational. The Welsh charity which currently operates 3 helicopters from bases at Llanelli, Caernarfon and Welshpool will add a helicopter to the newly reopened Heliport on an initial six month trial. [read more]

Citywing have announced that it’s twice daily service from Cardiff to Anglesey/RAF Valley will operate to RAF Mona instead throughout August. The destination change is due to RAF Valley being closed for runway maintenance and resurfacing. Passengers will still check-in as normal at RAF Valley (which remains as the end [read more]

Flybe have announced today that it is bringing forward the start date of its new Cardiff to Berlin route to the 1st October 2016, one month earlier than planned. The move is a direct result of high public demand for the twice weekly route between Cardiff Wales Airport (CWL) and [read more]

Flybe has announced it has signed a codesharing agreement with Air Berlin to offer flights from Cardiff to major German cities. The agreement means that Flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) to Dusseldorf (DUS/EDDL), Munich (MUC/EDDM) and Berlin (TXL/EDDT) will operate under dual flight numbers of Flybe (BEE) and Air Berlin (BER) and will [read more]

An RAF Helicopter has burst into flames moments after being forced to land with a technical issue. Emergency services were called to a “helicopter crash” shortly before 2pm this afternoon. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed that a Griffin training helicopter “safely completed a precautionary landing in Snowdonia”. All four [read more]

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]

New regulations regarding flight operations at London City Airport have forced Flybe to change the times of its Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) to London City Airport (LCY/EGLC) route during September. A number of passengers took to twitter & email to complain that the early flights had been dropped meaning the earliest [read more]

Getting drunk on a plane could land you with more than a hangover, here Philip Dawson shares his thoughts on the rise of incidents of drunk and abusive passengers in todays airline industry. The recent decision by Jet 2 to ban the sale of alcohol on board their early morning [read more]