One of the most important of the international airports serving Wales, Cardiff Airport primarily runs its scheduled flights to the UK, Spain, and the Netherlands with a few going to other select European cities. Although bmibaby, Cardiff Airport’s primary carrier handles about 50% of the traffic out of Cardiff, there are a number of other charter airlines that add further destinations across the northern Mediterranean region as far East as Larnaca. Charter service can be found flying out of Cardiff to the Canary Islands and a few transatlantic flights to Alicante, Mexico and several Caribbean Islands including Jamaica and Barbados.

Cardiff Airport has recently begun offering the ePassport Gate service. In partnership with the UK Border Agency, the new ePassport is micro-chipped and the automated gates use state of the art facial recognition software to make the security check process much easier and swifter than the manual security clearance methods.

While waiting for your flight out of Cardiff, there are plenty of places and activities to keep you occupied. After passing through the Departures Gate, you can choose between the Echo Bar which offers music video along with a full menu and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks or the Cafe Ritazza which offers hot and cold drinks, teas, coffee, and pastries. Also available in the Departure lounge is a WH Smith store. From here you can select between a full range of books and newspapers along with snacks, confectioneries, gifts and tobacco products.

A note to remember when you have to travel from Cardiff, making your bookings and reservations online gives you access to many promotional discounts on various goods and services.