Elvis Costello sings about Cardiff Airport

The title of Elvis Costello captures the essence of what  up what 2013 has been like for Cardiff Airport.

First we had ……

Air Malta is more than doubling its capacity from Cardiff to Malta this year by offering over 15,000 seats for travel between Malta and Wales this summer.

Due to popular demand in 2012 for the Cardiff flight the airline is using a larger aircraft and adding a Friday evening flight to the existing Tuesday morning service (source Cardiff Airport Website).

Then we had “Leading Spanish airline, Vueling has today launched new winter services from Cardiff Airport which extends its flying programme to an all year round operation following a positive response from Welsh passengers.

The additional flights to Malaga and Alicante will operate on Tuesdays and Saturdays, extending the summer schedule. Flights are on sale from Thursday 23^rd May and prices start at 39,99euros.

Following a successful 2012 and the launch of the 2013 summer season Vueling further increased services on their summer programme to and from Wales, also starting services earlier to meet the increased demand over the Easter period” Source Cardiff Airport Website”

Then we had - Lufthansa is to launch new seasonal route, with Saturday-only Dusseldorf – Cardiff operation on board CRJ900 aircraft. from 04MAY13

Schedule: LH3464 DUS1040 – 1115CWL CR9 6 & LH3465 CWL1150 – 1425DUS CR9 6

August – Express bus service launched, departing every 20 minutes.

Then last week we had Vueling releasing their summer 2014 schedule before EasyJet !

Then yesterday we had Flybe announcing 4 new ski flight routes from Cardiff

Oh I nearly forget March 2013,  Welsh Government buys Cardiff Airport

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