cardiff airport

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]

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]

Cardiff Airport has been name as the UK’s fastest growing airport after the latest figures revealed a 28% rise in passenger numbers and a 13th consecutive month of growth. Airport Managing Director Debra Barber described the current trend as “exciting times” following years of decline at the Wales’s only international [read more]

The Welsh football team returned home to Wales yesterday to a heroes welcome at Cardiff Airport on-board a charted Boeing 737. The team was met by Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones and hundreds of fans who had packed the airport to greet the men in red before being driven to [read more]

Cardiff Airport today introduced its 3 brand new fire engines to the world today and Aviation Wales were on hand to find out all there is to know about Merlin, Y Draig Coch and Firefly. The 3 brand new state of the art Oshkosh Striker 6×6 Fire Vehicles were on [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]

Cypriot start-up Cobalt Air (CO/FCB) has begun scheduled operations from Larnaca this week with a 3 times daily service to Athens. On launch it announced that the routes they plan to operate include Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Chania, London Stansted, Manchester, Dublin and Paris. These are due to begin later this month. [read more]