Cardiff Airport

Cardiff Airport is the only commercial airport in Wales. It is located south-west of Cardiff, in the village of Rhoose.

It was opened during World War II as RAF Rhoose. After World War II it was abandoned. In 1952 it was reopened as Rhoose Airport, replacing RAF Pengam Moors as the airport for Cardiff.

On 1 April 1965 Glamorgan County Council took over the running of the airport, and it was renamed to Glamorgan (Rhoose) Airport. In the 1980s it renamed again, to Cardiff-Wales Airport. It later became Cardiff International Airport, and in 2009 it gained its current name Cardiff Airport (Maes Awyr Caerdydd in Welsh).