The NCP official long stay car park is located just outside the main terminal of Cardiff airport. It offers quick and convenient parking 24 hours a day with a swift transfer bus service if your carrying heavy luggage.

The NCP official long stay car park has the following features:

Located on airport grounds.
Available to pre-book or just take a ticket on the day.
Superb disabled parking facilities.
High perimeter security fencing and 24 hour cover.
Run and maintained by NCP car parks.

Disabled parking at the NCP long stay

There are disabled parking bays located at the head of the car park and assistance call buttons located on both entry barriers. Cardiff airport runs a comprehensive Passengers With Reduced Mobility (PRM) service and also offers a range of services for visually impaired, deaf and handicapped people.

Transfers to the main terminal

A transfer bus operates 24 hours a day every 10 minutes to help passengers carrying heavy luggage to the main entrance. There are bus shelters located throughout the car park where the bus stops.

Car Park Address

NCP Car Parks,
Cardiff Airport,
Vale of Glamorgan,
CF62 3BD,

Aberdeen airport continued its run of strong growth in May, handling 242,493 passengers, an increase of 10.9% on May 2004.

Both domestic and international services saw strong growth at Aberdeen Airport. Luton, Newcastle and Humberside were the strongest domestic performers, and Bergen, Groningen and Amsterdam the biggest growing international services.

In the 12 months to May, Aberdeen Airport handled 2.7 million passengers, up 7.1% on 2004. In annual terms, Aberdeen is now the fastest growing of BAA Scotland`s three airports.

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.

Budget airline bmibaby today announced an expansion of its flights from Cardiff International airport today. It will take on KLM on its flagship Amsterdam route, with the first services taking off from March 26.

The airline, which first launched low-cost flights from Cardiff in October 2002, has carried almost two million passengers to and from the region. A spokesman for bmibaby said that today’s announcement was the first phase of an expansion intended at Cardiff International.

Ten routes for summer 2006 go on sale today. In addition, to the Glasgow International and Amsterdam routes bmibaby will fly direct to Alicante, Belfast International, Edinburgh, Faro, Jersey, Malaga, Palma and Prague.

bmibaby will basing a third Boeing 737 aircraft at Cardiff International, as it begins to extend its operations from South Wales. With the new flights, plus expansions to its current network, it will operate around 150 flights a week from Cardiff.

bmibaby’s fares to the Dutch capital will start from £19.99 one-way, including taxes. For more information visit www.bmibaby.com.

Regional carrier Air South West announced range of new routes today, including its first flights from Cardiff next spring. The Plymouth-based airline is launching daily services from Cardiff to Newquay and Manchester as well as starting Newquay – Leeds Bradford and Bristol – Norwich flights.

In addition to the new routes, Air South West’s Newquay to Manchester flights will go to twice a day, while its Bristol – Leeds Bradford frequency will rise from two to three flights a day. The enhanced schedule will operate from April 10 and will include the carrier basing an aircraft and dedicated crew at Bristol airport.

Chief executive Malcolm Naylor said the announcement ‘represents a significant expansion of our route network and brings our established formula of low fares and quality services to a range of new markets while enhancing services on many of our existing routes.’

Air South West, which was launched two years ago, currently operates from Plymouth, Newquay and Bristol, including connections from Devon and Cornwall to Gatwick and Manchester. Fares on the new routes start at £19 on way, including taxes. For more information visit www.airsouthwest.com

Environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth (FoE) are pursuing a test case against Cardiff airport that could force all regional airports in England and Wales to disclose much more information about their future plans.

The airport’s management has refused to release a copy of a 20-year master plan. Using specialist lawyers, FoE is challenging Cardiff airport’s claim that because it is owned by a private company, it is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

If the airport was publicly owned, it would have to comply with the Act. Doubt exists because of the privatisation of the airport in 1995, when it was sold by the three county councils that owned it to the property company TBI.

VLM Airlines is stopping its early morning flight from Jersey to London City airport, and is closing its base in Jersey from the end of September.

VLM has based an aircraft and crew in Jersey since it began flying between the Island and the Docklands airport last June. But the airline has decided to move the aircraft back to London City airport, and reduce the number of flights from 3 rotations each weekday to just 1.

Eleven Jersey-based VLM aircrew have been offered redeployment elsewhere.

VLM Airlines will introduce a fuel surcharge of £3.50 (5 euros) per passenger sector (flight) from tomorrow. The airline operates from London City Airport with routes Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Jersey, Liverpool, Luxemburg, Manchester and Rotterdam, plus between Southampton – Brussels and Jersey and Guernsey to Rotterdam.

VLM’s fuel-efficient Fokker 50 aircraft have allowed the carrier to absorb increases in fuel prices up to now but, with oil prices above $60 per barrel, the airline says that it can no longer avoid a surcharge.

Johan Vanneste, Managing director said, ‘We have maintained a no fuel surcharge policy for as long as we could, but the impact on our cost base of these increased fuel bills has become unbearable for a niche company such as VLM Airlines.’

‘We cannot afford to have significant cost overruns for an extended period of time and therefore we have decided to introduce a relatively small fuel surcharge. With £3.50 (5 euros) per sector, this demonstrates the fuel efficient nature of our aircraft as the surcharge is less than half that of most of our competitors.’

The airline has held off introducing a surcharge despite a six-fold increase in fuel prices in the last six years and a doubling in price since early 2004, he said.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) announced a new route from London City airport to Copenhagen today. The airline will launch the service on Monday 30 October 2005.

SAS will fly the route twice daily, Monday to Friday, and once daily on Saturday and Sunday using a with a Dash 8-Q400. The move follows an earlier announcement by BA francise partner Sun-Air that it would launch the route on 31 October.

The new London City Airport route is part of an expansion from Copenhagen for SAS. The airline also announced nonstop services from Copenhagen to Nuremberg and Luxembourg starting on September 1st.

London City airport’s had a record-breaking month in June, beating all performance records since the Airport opened in 1987. A staggering 187,280 passengers passed through the terminal – a 14% increase on a year earlier. Year to date passenger numbers are up by 21% and aircraft movements increased by 26%.

The airport is on target to reach 2 million passengers this year, for the first time. The one millionth passenger of 2005 passed through the docklands terminal on 1 July, eight weeks earlier than last year.

Richard Gooding, Managing Director of London City airport is confident that the demand from the business travel sector will continue to grow, supporting the development at the airport: ‘We are delighted that in 2005 we have, together with our airline partners, consolidated and strengthened our market position and the growth has continued.’

“Looking ahead I’m confident, and expect to see London City reaching the two million-passenger target in December this year. This is supported by the launch of the Docklands Light Railway on the 15 December, which puts the airport firmly on the public transport map.’

‘In light of the recent Olympics award, East London is now very much the focus of regeneration. We will undoubtedly see a significant transformation to the area and we are very excited to be part of it. Being only 3 miles from the Olympic Park, London City Airport is the gateway to the 2012 Games.’

VLM Airlines reacted enthusiastically to the announcement that the 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London. As the biggest airline at London City airport, with over 440 flights each week, the airline is understandably delighted with the announcement.

London City airport is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from the site for the new Olympic Stadium in London’s East End – by far the closest airport to the main Olympic area. Over the next 7 years large numbers of people involved in the planning, organisation and construction of the Olympic Village infrastructure will have to travel between London and other European major cities.

VLM Airlines is hoping to pick up these additional passengers, and to benefit from the regeneration of the area once the Olympics are over. Its Managing Director, Johan Vanneste, said: ‘Over the past 12 years, VLM Airlines has consistently increased its capacity at London City Airport, offering frequent flights and the fastest connection to the very heart of London. Today’s announcement will certainly bring new perspectives to our airline.’