Cardiff Airport has a hat-trick of airlines in the top 10 world’s safest low-cost airlines with Flybe, Thomas Cook and Vueling all featuring. Australian airline Qantas came top overall in the rankings by website airlineratings.com. Flybe, who have 2 based aircraft at Cardiff Airport, operate a network of routes across [read more]
The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) have said that new mental health rules for pilots could force the issues underground. The new rules proposed by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as a result of the Germanwings crash in 2015 including psychological testing for all pilots when joining an airline. BALPA [read more]
On Tuesday the 2nd May 2017 the Airbus A350-1000 made its first ever landing in the UK when it visited Cardiff Airport for Hot fuel trials. Airbus A350-1000 F-WWXL was the 3rd of the type to be built and join the test program ahead of certification later in the year. [read more]
The first Airbus A350-1000 to land in the UK has touched down at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) this afternoon. F-WWXL (MSN071) is the 3rd Airbus A350-1000 XWB aircraft to be built and the final aircraft to enter Airbus’ test line up. The long range twin-jet, known as the XWB or (Extra [read more]
Qatar Airways (QR/QTR) have today announced that they are to launch flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) in 2018 to the Qatari capital Doha (DOH/OTHH). Attracting long haul carriers has long been a target for Wales’ National Airport with Thomson and Thomas cook already offering Montego Bay, Orlando and Barbados as [read more]
The Boeing 737 has the accolade of being the most produced jet-powered aircraft in history and it’s not hard to see why given that the first flight of the type was April 9th, 1967, and they are still making it today! In fact, as of February 2017, 9,401 have been built. [read more]
Today see’s the first flight for Iberia Express to Madrid (MAD/LEMD) from Wales National Airport. The Spanish Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) will operate its first flight (IB3687) from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) at 18:05 this evening arriving in the Spanish capital around 2 hours later. Spain’s capital is a city of boulevards [read more]
Cardiff Aviation will get round the table for talks with the Welsh Government today to discuss the fact that they have never paid rent at their St Athan site, leaving a large debt owed to the Welsh taxpayer. Cardiff Aviation took over the Twin Peaks facility at St Athan in [read more]
Concorde G-BOAF has been moved to her new home at Airbus UK site at Filton. Alpha Foxtrot carried out the last ever Concorde landing when it arrived at Filton on the 26th November 2003 and was displayed outside at the airfield leading to damage to the wings. She is now [read more]
The 3rd A350-100 aircraft is about to join the test fleet at Airbus. The aircraft , whose wings are made at Broughton in North Wales is the final aircraft to operate that will share the load certification testing for the type. The job of the 3rd aircraft will be to [read more]
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