Archive Flybe at Cardiff Airport

[Jerry]

Just booked Cardiff to Paris with Flybe in November. Looking forward to flying on their Q400 again as it's been a while!
Only cost £36 one way without any extras, so very happy with that! The last one I flew was London city too Cardiff at least 2 year's ago!
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[superking]

You will fly back into CWL with Flybe or you planning to do things another way. Enjoy which im sure you will.

 

[Jerry]

You will fly back into CWL with Flybe or you planning to do things another way. Enjoy which im sure you will.

I'm hoping to fly back on the same day via Amsterdam with Air France and KLM, that's the plan but it will depend on the price.

 

[Jerry]

Today is the last flight of the Flybe Rome service. Also ending today are Venice and Verona and Munich ended yesterday. Hopefully these routes will return in the future but now KLM will be the only option for these destinations.
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[Silvercity]

Today is the last flight of the Flybe Rome service. Also ending today are Venice and Verona and Munich ended yesterday. Hopefully these routes will return in the future but now KLM will be the only option for these destinations.
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Rather sad day for CWL and flybe.

 

[Jerry]

Rather sad day for CWL and flybe.

Yep, the beginning of the end of the base. Though I do hope one day that the crew base will come back I don't think we'll see jets again.

 

[Jerry]

The Flybe 10.20 departure was aborted on the runway after a bird got into one of the engines. The aircraft was evacuated and no one was hurt.

Plane evacuated at Cardiff airport after abandoned take off drama

The plane had begun taking off when suddenly the brakes were "slammed on"

www.walesonline.co.uk

 

[Aviador]

Usual scare tactics by the media. There was NO evacuation as the steps were clearly shown in the photo indicating the passengers were offloaded in the usual manner and not down the emergency shutes as the reporter suggests.

 

[superking]

Usual stuff as lots of times they get things wrong,or they get like drama queens.

 

[Jerry]

Usual scare tactics by the media. There was NO evacuation as the steps were clearly shown in the photo indicating the passengers were offloaded in the usual manner and not down the emergency shutes as the reporter suggests.

I only found out later that the aircraft was on the taxiway in front of the terminal and not on the runway taking off and there wasn't any load bangs or sudden stops! The article is just exaggerated for clickbait unfortunately.

 

[Cardiffbay]

I only found out later that the aircraft was on the taxiway in front of the terminal and not on the runway taking off and there wasn't any load bangs or sudden stops! The article is just exaggerated for clickbait unfortunately.

Total over the top reporting as usual but I’m not sure the aircraft was on the taxi way. You can clearly see it is on the runway in one of the photos with the fire engine in it. Was it back tracking?

 

[Jerry]

Total over the top reporting as usual but I’m not sure the aircraft was on the taxi way. You can clearly see it is on the runway in one of the photos with the fire engine in it. Was it back tracking?

It could have been taxiing on the runway then.

 

[Jerry]

As Flybe are cutting quite a lot of routes at other airports i thought i'd check on Cardiff.
Edinburgh has been increased from 18 weekly to 21 weekly.
The route will be 3 daily on Mondays and Tuesdays, 4 daily on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays the extra flights are on these days. 1 daily on Saturdays and 2 daily on Sundays.
The times for the extra flights are EDI-CWL 11.30-12.55 CWL-EDI 13.25-14.50.
Paris, Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Jersey are unchanged.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

As Flybe are cutting quite a lot of routes at other airports i thought i'd check on Cardiff.
Edinburgh has been increased from 18 weekly to 21 weekly.
The route will be 3 daily on Mondays and Tuesdays, 4 daily on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays the extra flights are on these days. 1 daily on Saturdays and 2 daily on Sundays.
The times for the extra flights are EDI-CWL 11.30-12.55 CWL-EDI 13.25-14.50.
Paris, Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Jersey are unchanged.

Has CWL-EDI been operated 4 x daily before - by anyone? I can't remember it happening previously.

Have the fourth rotations on the days in question just been put into the schedule this week? EDI now looks a very good programme. Still seems odd that Flybe couldn't have done something with GLA.

 

[Jerry]

Has CWL-EDI been operated 4 x daily before - by anyone? I can't remember it happening previously.

Maybe when BMI baby were operating?
I don't know when they were put in, it was only the cuts that prompted me to look and see if CWL had been effected.
I do find it odd as well that one of the days Wednesday which is generally a quiet day has had an increase from 3 to 4 especially as last winter I'm sure they cut flights on it on that day.
Glasgow was a surprise but maybe they feel they can make more money on other routes with the aircraft? But it has worked well in that Loganair have taken over the route and CWL has another airline that it can hopefully work with in the future.
With Edinburgh hopefully in the summer the other days will get extra flights as well.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Maybe when BMI baby were operating?
I don't know when they were put in, it was only the cuts that prompted me to look and see if CWL had been effected.
I do find it odd as well that one of the days Wednesday which is generally a quiet day has had an increase from 3 to 4 especially as last winter I'm sure they cut flights on it on that day.
Glasgow was a surprise but maybe they feel they can make more money on other routes with the aircraft? But it has worked well in that Loganair have taken over the route and CWL has another airline that it can hopefully work with in the future.
With Edinburgh hopefully in the summer the other days will get extra flights as well.

bmibaby didn't operate the EDI more than 3 x daily. I've also looked back at the late 1990s when the BA franchisee operated EDI and again 3 x daily is the maximum I can find.

 

[Jerry]

bmibaby didn't operate the EDI more than 3 x daily. I've also looked back at the late 1990s when the BA franchisee operated EDI and again 3 x daily is the maximum I can find.

Didn't Flybe though operate at least 2 daily at the same time as BMI baby were operating?

 

[Jerry]

Didn't Flybe though operate at least 2 daily at the same time as BMI baby were operating?

I had a quick look at SWAG website and it looks like back in 2008 BMIbaby and Flybe both operated EDI 2 daily on at least one day coming to 4 daily between them.
2009 looks like it was the last time Edinburgh was 4 daily.

 

[geoff]

I know that CWL has lost the European routes, but the domestic sectors can't be doing too bad if they are increasing flights in the winter season, albeit on slightly smaller aircraft. Compared to some of the other regional airports CWL hasn't come off too badly.

 

[Jerry]

I know that CWL has lost the European routes, but the domestic sectors can't be doing too bad if they are increasing flights in the winter season, albeit on slightly smaller aircraft. Compared to some of the other regional airports CWL hasn't come off too badly.

I think the big disappointment for CWL will be the loss of the base. A lot of money has been invested into the airport with part of that to create jobs for the area and Flybe would be a part of that, instead it seems CWL is an airport that will be flown into and the jobs will go elsewhere to places like Edinburgh and Belfast and Southampton. But i do think it could've been a lot worse as places like Doncaster are finding out. Flybe will be operarting once Geneva and Chambery start 63 weekly departures from the airport. Summer 2020 will be interesting.