Cardiff International Airport (CWL)
A working profile of Cardiff International Airport in Cardiff, United Kingdom: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Cardiff International Airport
- Serves: Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Coordinates: 51.3967, -3.3433
- Elevation: 220 ft
- Time zone: Europe/London
Cardiff International Airport sits inside the air network of United Kingdom. It shows 32 distinct scheduled departures across 20 destinations and 13 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from CWL
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JER | Jersey Airport | Jersey | Jersey | CWL→JER | 3 |
| AGP | Málaga Airport | Malaga | Spain | CWL→AGP | 3 |
| ALC | Alicante International Airport | Alicante | Spain | CWL→ALC | 3 |
| EDI | Edinburgh Airport | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | CWL→EDI | 2 |
| GLA | Glasgow International Airport | Glasgow | United Kingdom | CWL→GLA | 2 |
| ORY | Paris-Orly Airport | Paris | France | CWL→ORY | 2 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | CWL→AMS | 2 |
| BCN | Barcelona International Airport | Barcelona | Spain | CWL→BCN | 2 |
| TFS | Tenerife South Airport | Tenerife | Spain | CWL→TFS | 2 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf Airport | Duesseldorf | Germany | CWL→DUS | 1 |
| BHD | George Best Belfast City Airport | Belfast | United Kingdom | CWL→BHD | 1 |
| DUB | Dublin Airport | Dublin | Ireland | CWL→DUB | 1 |
| MLA | Malta International Airport | Malta | Malta | CWL→MLA | 1 |
| NCL | Newcastle Airport | Newcastle | United Kingdom | CWL→NCL | 1 |
| DLM | Dalaman International Airport | Dalaman | Turkey | CWL→DLM | 1 |
| HER | Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport | Heraklion | Greece | CWL→HER | 1 |
| LCA | Larnaca International Airport | Larnaca | Cyprus | CWL→LCA | 1 |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca Airport | Palma de Mallorca | Spain | CWL→PMI | 1 |
| RHO | Diagoras Airport | Rhodos | Greece | CWL→RHO | 1 |
| VLY | Anglesey Airport | Angelsey | United Kingdom | CWL→VLY | 1 |
Airlines operating at CWL
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from CWL |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO | Transavia France | France | 8 |
| AF | Air France | France | 4 |
| WX | CityJet | Ireland | 4 |
| IB | Iberia Airlines | Spain | 3 |
| VY | Vueling Airlines | Spain | 3 |
| BE | Flybe | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 4U | Germanwings | Germany | 1 |
| AZ | Alitalia | Italy | 1 |
| EI | Aer Lingus | Ireland | 1 |
| KL | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Netherlands | 1 |
| KM | Air Malta | Malta | 1 |
| T3 | Eastern Airways | United Kingdom | 1 |
| V9 | Star1 Airlines | Lithuania | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into CWL typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JER | Jersey Airport | Jersey | Jersey | 3 |
| AGP | Málaga Airport | Malaga | Spain | 3 |
| ALC | Alicante International Airport | Alicante | Spain | 3 |
| EDI | Edinburgh Airport | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 2 |
| GLA | Glasgow International Airport | Glasgow | United Kingdom | 2 |
| ORY | Paris-Orly Airport | Paris | France | 2 |
| AMS | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 2 |
| BCN | Barcelona International Airport | Barcelona | Spain | 2 |
| TFS | Tenerife South Airport | Tenerife | Spain | 2 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf Airport | Duesseldorf | Germany | 1 |
| BHD | George Best Belfast City Airport | Belfast | United Kingdom | 1 |
| DUB | Dublin Airport | Dublin | Ireland | 1 |
| MLA | Malta International Airport | Malta | Malta | 1 |
| NCL | Newcastle Airport | Newcastle | United Kingdom | 1 |
| DLM | Dalaman International Airport | Dalaman | Turkey | 1 |
| LCA | Larnaca International Airport | Larnaca | Cyprus | 1 |
| NBE | Enfidha - Hammamet International Airport | Enfidha | Tunisia | 1 |
| PMI | Palma De Mallorca Airport | Palma de Mallorca | Spain | 1 |
| VLY | Anglesey Airport | Angelsey | United Kingdom | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from CWL on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list CWL to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat CWL as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.