I see Norwegian are looking at starting flights to Canada from the regions.....

Would be great to see Norwegian schedules from CWL

You're correct, they were parked up for exactly that, it's winter and most, if not every airline runs a reduced schedule for obvious reasons. I'll be very, very surprised if we see "new" routes announced. I'm always happy to be proved wrong of course.

Flybe have released their Winter 2018/19 schedule, nothing new i'm afraid but Geneva does go 2 weekly.
Dublin is 14 weekly
Edinburgh and Belfast 12 weekly
Paris CDG 7 weekly
Glasgow is 6 weekly
Cork and Jersey and Munich are 3 weekly
Faro, Berlin, Geneva, Milan and Rome are 2 weekly
Chambery is 1 weekly

How are the forward bookings on the new QR service? My family is certainly trying to support it haha, we've got 11 family members flying out to SIN in July for a wedding, and another 5 flying to BKK for holiday in October, then 6 people flying to MNL in November. All flights were around £450-£500 return, which is great especially considering the saving in fuel driving to LHR.

No one will really know apart from the airport and the airline.
It is definitely more convenient than Heathrow!

P&O Cruises Winter 2019/20

P&O Cruises will have 4 fly cruise packages onsale flying from Cardiff Airport to Barbados for Winter 2019/20.
8th November to 22nd November 2019.
29th November to 13th December 2019.
31st January to 14th February 2020.
22nd February to 7th March 2020.
All depart and return on a Friday.
The cruises go onsale from 21st and 22nd March.
http://www.pocruises.com/find-and-b...ionids=3&departuremonths=201911,202001,202002

The new airbridge has been fitted now. Also the stands in that area will be reconfigured with 2 new ones 7L and 8R being created with 7L being the wide body stand. 8R will be inbetween 8 and 7 and stand 7 will be moved up a bit.
Also the Welsh government will invest £6 million more into the airport in return for more equity. More terminal building upgrades have been mentioned along with a logistics hub.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/reasons-welsh-government-made-6m-14446093

While I appreciate that state aid is a dark art, does make you wonder what does qualify as state aid if this doesn't. Shame this sort of facility isn't available to all airports in the UK.

Advantage of having our own government is that infrastructure like airports can be run more for the benefit of the country and the government can take a longer view investment wise.

And besides an RAF base in Angelsey and an Airbus facility on the border with England precisely how many commercial airports would that be?

Doesn't really matter whether it's 1 or 5.

On CWLs twitter account they have tweeted about an announcement tomorrow by one of the airports airline.
https://twitter.com/Cardiff_Airport/status/977987924766707712?s=19

Yeah I’ve seen that tweet, an existing airlines making an announcement today......I wonder what it’ll be ?

New BE destinations ?
New FR destinations ?
New MT destinations ?
Long haul from MT ?
New TUI destinations ?

TUI - extra based aircraft from Summer 2019
 

Looks that TUI will base a third shorthaul aircraft as of summer 2019 with new routes to Dubrovnik and Naples. No longhaul announcement though, Doncaster gets an Orlando route.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/tui-adding-more-destinations-choice-14454913

That’s quite a nice surprise announcement from TUI, so HRG appears to be year round now, new flights to NAP & DBV and extra flights to MAH, PFO and a few others.

3 aircraft based for Summer 2019

Balkan Holidays have put Summer 2019 onsale. It's 1 weekly on Sundays from 12th May to the 23rd of September and it will go 2 weekly with the addition of a Thursday flight from the 18th July to 12th of September. Flight times for both Thursdays and Sundays are BOJ-CWL 10.10-11.50 CWL-BOJ 12.40-18.10

Qatar Airways inaugural flight to Cardiff on the 1st May will be with an A350.

What is your source young man?

The Qatar Airways twitter feed and I've seen screenshots of messages in which their customer service people confirm it. It'll be good pr for the route and the airport and the wings are made in Wales as well.

Qatar A350
 

Post on Qatar Airways Twitter feed from the airlines Vice President of marketing.