CWL - Cardiff 🇬🇧

[Jamesonplanes]

Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code

Cardiff Airport (ICAO: EGFF / IATA: CWL)

Location (City, Country)
Cardiff, Wales

Airport Type & Size
Smaller regional airport in the uk, can handle up to E class (so no 380s folks!)

Why should this airport be added to World of Airports

A nice little airport that serves the capital of Wales, British Airways have large maintenance facilities there and their aircraft are regularly seen there!

Major Airlines & Routes
Aer Lingus, Air France, BH air, Eastern, KLM, Ryanair, Loganair, Tui, Vueling (from the cardiff airport website)

Unique Features or Challenges
Big hangers

Optional: Links, images, maps, or videos

[Hirohitoswaifu]

That bottom photo looks like a de-liveried Brussels Airlines Q400. Presume it is after it returned to FlyBe?

[Jamesonplanes]

Yeah I’d assume so

[QGFSC]

This be more ideal for a generic airport.

[Jamesonplanes]

Yeah, reason why I suggested it

[Hirohitoswaifu]

Couple of Googly Earth screenshots,

Maybe we’ll get the playable airport in-game before a Welsh airport as a destination

Iron Maiden B744,

Lecce Heli,

RAF Red Arrows,

BA maintenance hangers,

Gone but never forgotten (Top to LCY, 2nd to CDG, 3rd to Belfast City (Another airport we don’t have in-game) bottom from DUS),

Thomson on turnaround for TFS flight,

TCX arriving from Reus,

Football charters (akin to Liverpool’s),

BOAC before she was murdered down the road by the butchers of St Athans,

And an actual E Class flight, Thomson readying for a flight to Barbados,

Eastern RIP,