When you are on the internet and looking for a flight, a lot of the jargon can appear meaningless. You can be reading pages and pages of meaningless words when all you want to do is book a flight and be able to relax about your holiday; all this additional information only serves to make you more stressed and annoyed than you wanted to be when you started. The worst part is that you know that in and amongst all the unnecessary phrasing and the abbreviated terms is very important information about your flight; times of arrival and departure, airports, check in details etc. It’s just a matter of decoding all the jargon and finding out the information.

The most annoying part is that many websites abbreviate the airports and some will not recognise the full name of the airport – only the abbreviated form. This, of course, creates massive problems if you are unsure of the abbreviated term and can lead to additional research and time that could be better spent doing more important things. For Cardiff airport, the airport code (that is the abbreviated term) is CWL. Whenever you are searching for a flight that is flying into, or flying out of Cardiff airport, the surest way to find out all the details is to use this code. It will bring the airport up straight away and help you to cross out one of the annoyingly confusing tasks that slow down your holiday booking and almost guarantee a mistake being made!