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Cardiff Airport has appointed 2 new directors to the senior management team to deal with their long-term strategic plan. Mark Bailey has been named as Director of Airport Planning & Development while Ceri Mashlan has been promoted to Director of Operations at Wales’ National Airport. The former Head of Operational [read more]

Ireland’s low-cost carrier Ryanair (FR/RYR) today launches its latest route from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF). The new route to the Algarve, Portugal will see Welsh passengers jetting off to Faro for as little as £19.99. The first flight departs Cardiff Airport today at 11:50 as FR9224 and should arrive in Faro [read more]

When Citywing collapsed last Friday the Public Service Obligation (PSO) Cardiff to Anglesey route was left without an operator and passengers without transport. Immediately it was announced that tickets would be valid on trains in the interim. On Sunday, just 2 days later, the Welsh Government announced that Eastern Airways [read more]

Eastern Airways (T3/EZE) are to take over the Cardiff to Anglesey Intra-Wales route “without disruption” according to Welsh Government Economy secretary Ken Skates. The route was left without an operator following the collapse of “virtual airline” Citywing on Friday. The collapse was caused by the suspension of Van Air Europe, [read more]

Cardiff Airport have appointed former Heathrow executive Terry Morgan to an advisory role on the board. Terry Morgan is a highly experience executives in the airport sector having previously been managing director at Stansted and a senior executive at Heathrow. He joins the board in a non-executive role to support [read more]

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]