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Cardiff Aviations Bruce Dickinson is close to starting an (Aircraft Crew Maintenance and Insurance) ACMI operation based out of the UK with his other venture, VVB Aviation. The airline which is described as being an “Airline in a Box” service is currently undergoing assessment for an EASA Operators Licence and [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]

FlyBe’s new routes from Cardiff Airport (EGFF/CWL) have got underway with the newly based Embraer E195 aircraft. BE4501 departed Cardiff at 06:45am this morning for Edinburgh. The flight was operated by FlyBe’s Embraer E195 G-FBEI which is the first of two of the type to be based at Cardiff to [read more]

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Cardiff Aviation and Air Djibouti the Vale of Glamorgan based company will set up an airline in the African country. The airline will initially be freight based but with a strong view to starting passenger operations at a later date. Cardiff [read more]

Cardiff Airport have confirmed that CityJet will be ending their flights to Edinburgh and Paris on 29th June 2015. CityJet started operations at Cardiff Airport following the withdrawl of FlyBe in 2014 however FlyBe have since made a major commitment to Cardiff including a new Paris Route. CityJet have cited [read more]

Thomas Cook have added Cancun to lists of Destinations served by Cardiff Airport in 2016. The one-off flight on the 24th May 2016 will be operated by one of Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A330 aircraft and will return to Cardiff on the 7th June 2016. Last year Thomas Cook announced [read more]

The first of two new search and rescure helicopters arrived at the new Bristow Search and Rescue (SAR) facility at Caernarfon today. The Sikorsky S92, G-MCGJ, is the first of two aircraft under Bristow’s new search and rescue contract. Previously, UK Search and Rescue in Wales was carried out by [read more]