It was a great idea, literally dozens of people flew from Cardiff to Anglsey on it
The government funded this instead of sticking a motorway in North/South through Wales, because road = bad
Would have loved to have seen that. They were at Swansea too and I’ve seen a few pictures of them there. Not sure where they flew to though.
Ban airplane s
I remember but does anyone remember Airways International Cymru operating B737s and BAC111s out of Cardiff?
My wife flew to Dublin with them I think. A toddler was running up and down the aisle asking for his dad and his mum said “Sit down now, daddy’s flying the plane”.
Flew to Ireland from Swansea in one of these back in 04.
I don’t think it was Air Wales, but I flew Cardiff to Anglesey back in 2015. The plane didn’t have a door to the cockpit, just a curtain and in flight you could look down the aisle and straight through the front windscreen. Coming back it was dark and the runway lights looked like they were swinging from side to side because of the turbulence. At Anglesey airport our boarding cards were handwritten. (That sounds like I joke. It’s not.)
Ieuan Air
Awyr Cymru
Seems to be a lot of confusion in the sub today…
Air Wales was a privately funded commercial regional airline in the 1990’s and 2000’s that flew from Cardiff and Swansea and went bust in 2006.
It was not the *Ieuan Air* Welsh Government funded PSO flights that operated between Anglesey and Cardiff by Links Air, Citywing and later Eastern Airways from 2007 onwards til China Flu killed it off.
I went on it once up to Newcastle. Worked as well as any other budget airline. You even got a free tea and biscuit.
Why would we use an airplane? We have dragons.
God, they were bloody awful
When the flight attendant says, ‘Mind your head,’ they might be talking about the dragon
I wondered if the registration G-TAWE was a reference to Abertawe (Swansea), so checked out the wiki page and sure enough, there’s also one with G-CDFF (Cardiff) and G-SSEA (Abertawe :).
There are two others though, which I can’t see a link to (I’m sadly not Welsh). Any clues?
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It was a great idea, literally dozens of people flew from Cardiff to Anglsey on it
The government funded this instead of sticking a motorway in North/South through Wales, because road = bad
Would have loved to have seen that. They were at Swansea too and I’ve seen a few pictures of them there. Not sure where they flew to though.
Ban airplane s
I remember but does anyone remember Airways International Cymru operating B737s and BAC111s out of Cardiff?
My wife flew to Dublin with them I think. A toddler was running up and down the aisle asking for his dad and his mum said “Sit down now, daddy’s flying the plane”.
Flew to Ireland from Swansea in one of these back in 04.
I don’t think it was Air Wales, but I flew Cardiff to Anglesey back in 2015. The plane didn’t have a door to the cockpit, just a curtain and in flight you could look down the aisle and straight through the front windscreen. Coming back it was dark and the runway lights looked like they were swinging from side to side because of the turbulence. At Anglesey airport our boarding cards were handwritten. (That sounds like I joke. It’s not.)
Ieuan Air
Awyr Cymru
Seems to be a lot of confusion in the sub today…
Air Wales was a privately funded commercial regional airline in the 1990’s and 2000’s that flew from Cardiff and Swansea and went bust in 2006.
It was not the *Ieuan Air* Welsh Government funded PSO flights that operated between Anglesey and Cardiff by Links Air, Citywing and later Eastern Airways from 2007 onwards til China Flu killed it off.
I went on it once up to Newcastle. Worked as well as any other budget airline. You even got a free tea and biscuit.
Why would we use an airplane? We have dragons.
God, they were bloody awful
When the flight attendant says, ‘Mind your head,’ they might be talking about the dragon
I wondered if the registration G-TAWE was a reference to Abertawe (Swansea), so checked out the wiki page and sure enough, there’s also one with G-CDFF (Cardiff) and G-SSEA (Abertawe :).
There are two others though, which I can’t see a link to (I’m sadly not Welsh). Any clues?
G-KNNY
G-RGDT
Yeah people used make jokes about flying whales.
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