Cardiff International Airport celebrates busy week
21.11.05
Cardiff International Airport has recorded its largest number of new routes and increased flights ever announced in a week last week. Three airlines announced a total of six new routes and increased frequency on a range of existing routes, totalling almost 400,000 additional seats on flights using Cardiff.
Bmibaby marked its third year at Cardiff by announcing three new Boeing 737 services for 2006 - to Amsterdam, Glasgow International, and Belfast International - alongside increased frequency on its Mediterranean routes from Wales. This will expand the number of bmibaby flights from Cardiff International to 150 per week, with a third B-737 to be based at Cardiff airport from next March.
Air Southwest, one of the UK's regional airlines, announced that it will begin flying from Cardiff International with new Bombardier Dash-8 routes to Manchester and Newquay. Both services will operate twice-daily on weekdays and once daily at weekends.
Zoom Airlines revealed that the Boeing 767 flight on its very successful route from Cardiff to Toronto will begin operation in February, much earlier than 2005's May start. This follows Zoom's recent decision to launch a new direct service from Cardiff to Vancouver for 2006.
Also Alpha One Airways, the much publicised start-up by 19-year-old Martin Halstead (now being hailed as "Baby Branson") announced a new scheduled service from Cardiff to the Isle of Man, due to begin early in the New Year.
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