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Cardiff International Airport is located in the town of Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, approximately 12 miles southwest of the Welsh capital Cardiff. Cardiff Airport is the main airport in Wales and the only one to offer scheduled International flights, along with low cost carriers and charter flights. Cardiff Airport offers a number of European and North American services, including flights from Cardiff to Palma de Mallorca and to Portugal’s Faro Airport via scheduled airlines such as bmibaby, along with destinations further afield such as Orlando and Toronto via Monarch and Zoom Airlines respectively. Charter flights from Cardiff include regular departures to destinations such as Tenerife, Larnaca and Rhodes with Thomas Cook, and Bodrum, Sharm el Sheikh and Malaga with Thomsonfly.

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Cardiff Airport was opened as an RAF training base in 1942 but the first commercial Cardiff flights came about in the 1950s. With the holiday boom of the 1960s Cardiff increased in passenger numbers significantly and expanded its commercial operations. After a series of name changes the airport acquired its current title of Cardiff International Airport and is now one of the most rapidly expanding airports in the UK with over 2 million passengers in 2006 and a rate of growth of 14%. Getting to Cardiff Airport is a fairly simple matter, with regular bus services from Cardiff city centre and a rail terminal located at the airport with services running on the hour that has a free shuttle bus service to the terminal building. The airport is 10 miles from junction 33 of the M4 motorway and is signposted regularly in both Welsh and English in and around Cardiff. Parking at the airport starts from just £3 per day and there are short and long stay options as well as speedy premier business options.

You can find a whole host of Cardiff flight and hotel combinations and package holidays from Cardiff with a quick and easy search at travel.co.uk. Simply enter the dates that you wish to travel and choose Cardiff Airport as your departure point and you will discover a massive choice of holidays from Cardiff, to help you choose your next getaway. Compare holidays and flights from Cardiff by price, by date and by lots of other criteria to help you create a shortlist of favourites. Once you make your decision there are plenty of booking options, with a straightforward online booking form or a variety of telephone booking agents to choose from.