Cardiff Airport and Flybe have announced a new route from Cardiff Airport for Summer 2016. Flybe will be adding Verona to its growing list of destinations. The following is the press release from Cardiff Airport. Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has today put on sale its 2016 summer schedule from Cardiff [read more]
This weekend will see 2 Quarter Final matches for the Rugby World Cup played in Cardiff. With Both France and Ireland in action Cardiff Airport will see a significant increase in traffic over the weekend with around 200 extra movements expected. In september Cardiff Airport saw passenger numbers increase by [read more]
The Welsh Government has announced that the latest part of Cardiff Airports £13million loan from the Welsh Government will consist of £3million from its capital reserves. £2.7million will also be made available to Airbus to create training facilities at Swansea University and Coleg Cambria in Deeside, Flintshire. The money comes [read more]
Summer 2015 saw a 10% increase in passengers at Cardiff Airport comapared to the same period in 2015 according to Cardiff Airport. The welsh hub states that compared to June, July and August 2014 the numbers this year were up 12%, 8% and 10% respectively. Both Thomson and Thomas Cook [read more]
The two new helicopters that will be covering coastguard duties in South Wales and the Bristol Channel have arrived at their new base at MOD Saint Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. The Augusta Westland 139 Aircraft G-CILP and G-CILN landed today at 15:11 and 16:07 respectively. Both aircraft are [read more]
Cardiff Aviation Chairman Bruce Dickinson has today announced he is going to put together a fleet of aeroplanes based in South Wales which will be leased to other airlines. The move which could create up to 200 jobs is a major boost to the region and bolsters South Wales growing [read more]
Airbus has today started production of the new wing for the Airbus A350-1000 XWB aircraft at Broughton in Flintshire, North Wales. Measuring 32 metres long and 6 metres wide it is the largest carbon fibre wing ever made for a commercial airliner. It was designed by Airbus in Bristol and [read more]
Cardiff Airport and AEROS flying school are hosting a “Fly-In” event on the 9th August 2015 to raise money for Wales Air Ambulance. The event is open to all private light aircraft with a maximum weight of 2 tonnes and the event is being offered with a reduced landing rate [read more]
Links Air has dropped the Cardiff to Norwich Route just 2 months after it began citing poor passengers numbers as the reason. The airline has carried just 700 people since it began, well below the 1000 needed to break even and Roger Hage from Links Air stated “we had to break [read more]
Flybe have announced their Winter Schedule for 2015/2016 from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) and this includes the return of a weekly flight to the French Alps ski resort of Chambery. Other destinations that are included in their winter schedule from Cardiff are: Belfast Cork Dublin Düsseldorf Edinburgh Faro Geneva Glasgow Jersey [read more]
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