United Kingdom · Cardiff

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.

CWLIATA
EGFFICAO
20Destinations on file
13Operating airlines
32Departures on file

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.

Airport profile data
IATADestinationCityCountryRouteOperators
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.

Airport profile data (section 2)
IATAAirlineCountryRoutes 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.

Airport profile data (section 3)
IATAOrigin airportCityCountryOperators
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.