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Cardiff Airport CEO has said that she finds it “difficult to understand” why the UK Government has said that it will not devolve Air Passenger Duty (APD) to the Welsh Government. The UK Government confirmed it would not be devolving the power today despite a recommendation from the Welsh Office [read more]

Global Trek has formally opened its new Fixed Based Operator (FBO) service at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF). The Prestwick headquartered company soft-launched its operation at Cardiff Airport in May and has been servicing private and military traffic at the airport since then. It is the second base for the company which [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has been hit with fresh woes this week as it emerged Spanish airline Vueling will cut capacity on one of its key routes from the Welsh Government-owned airport in winter 19/20. The previously year-round service to Malaga will now be cut back through November 2019 and will [read more]

The Welsh Affairs Committee has recommended that control of Air Passenger Duty at Welsh Airports be handed over to the Welsh Government by 2021 but with a caveat to link it to carbon emissions from flights. Air Passenger Duty (APD) is a tax that is levied on all outbound flights [read more]

Welsh Government First Minister Mark Drakeford has dealt a blow to Cardiff Airport’s masterplan by cancelling a vital road link that would have allowed greater freight transport from the Airport to the rest of the UK. Mr Drakeford announced yesterday that the planned M4 relief road was being cancelled due [read more]

Fixed Base Operator (FBO) Global Trek Aviation has soft-launched its latest facility at located at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) in Wales. The brand new state-of-the-art VIP FBO facility at Cardiff Airport has received its first customer, BAe Jetstream 31 G-NLFA belonging to Cranfield University and operated by the National Flying Laboratory [read more]

Flybe is to close its ejet bases at Cardiff (CWL/EGFF), Doncaster (DSA/EGCN) Airports and end ejet flights from Exeter (EXT/EGTE) and Norwich Airports (NWI/EGSH) at the end of Summer 2019. In documents seen by us, the airline has told its pilots that the decision follows a “critical review of the [read more]

Some Thomas Cook customers who have booked flights from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) this summer have been forced to take alternative flights after the Airline decided to cut several flights from the schedule. Passengers have been offered new flights, in many cases from rival Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) after they were contacted [read more]