Cookie Policy

 

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Necessary - These are cookies that help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
  • Statistics - These cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
  • Marketing - The cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display adverts that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we and third parties use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Cookie Name

Purpose

Provider

Expiry

Necessary cookies

ARRAffinity

 

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

Cardiff Airport

Session

ARRAffinitySameSite

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

Cardiff Airport

Session

ASP.NET_Sessionld

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

Cardiff Airport

Session

CookieConsent

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.

Cardiff Airport

1 year

hash

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.

Cardiff Airport

39 days

PHPSESSID

Preserves user session state across page requests.

Cardiff Airport

Session

AWSALB

Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

endpoint1.collection.eu.sumologic.com

Session

AWSALBCORS

Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

endpoint1.collection.eu.sumologic.com

7 days

CONSENT

Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.

youtube.com

5984 days

test_cookie

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

doubleclick.net

1 day

agent

This is storing the 'agent code', a unique identifier for the booking source that ensures bookings are attributed correctly. A search has to have a valid agent code (defines the brand and products that load based on a ruleset).

Cardiff Airport

Session

 owts

These cookies relate to Orion, our first party tracking system - the cookies set contain no PII and are simply session IDs that allow us to track interaction reliably back to the same session.

Cardiff Airport

5 years

owts-tmp-v2

These cookies relate to Orion, our first party tracking system - the cookies set contain no PII and are simply session IDs that allow us to track interaction reliably back to the same session.

Cardiff Airport

1 day

owts-tmp-v3

 

These cookies relate to Orion, our first party tracking system - the cookies set contain no PII and are simply session IDs that allow us to track interaction reliably back to the same session.

 

Cardiff Airport

1 day

Statistics cookies

_ga

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Cardiff Airport

2 years

_gat

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

Cardiff Airport

1 day

_gid

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Cardiff Airport

1 day

_vwo_uuid_v2

This cookie is set to make split-tests on the website, which optimizes the website's relevance towards the visitor –the cookie can also be set to improve the visitor's experience on a website.

Cardiff Airport

1 year

v.gif

This cookie is set to make split-tests on the website, which optimizes the website's relevance towards the visitor –the cookie can also be set to improve the visitor's experience on a website.

visualwebsiteoptimizer.com

Session

Marketing cookies

tr

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

facebook.com

Session

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

doubleclick.net

1 year

pagead/1p-user-list/#

 

Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how theuser navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.

google.com

Session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

youtube.com

179 days

YSC

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

youtube.com

Session

yt.innertube::nextId

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

youtube.com

Persistent

yt.innertube::requests

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

youtube.com

Persistent

yt-remote-cast-available

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Session

yt-remote-cast-installed

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Session

yt-remote-connected-devices

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Persistent

yt-remote-device-id

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Persistent

yt-remote-fast-check-period

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Session

yt-remote-session-app

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Session

yt-remote-session-name

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

youtube.com

Session

 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

23

Mar

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Feb

Latest news:

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23

Dec

Latest news:

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19

Dec

Latest news:

Ryanair to offer UK domestic route into Cardiff – twice-weekly service from Belfast Arrow

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28

Nov

Latest news:

Ryanair to offer more flights through Cardiff next year – 22 weekly flights to Dublin, Algarve and Costa del Sol Arrow

Ryanair will be offering more flights to Ireland and Spain from Cardiff Airport next summer as the airline will offer daily flights to Dublin, as ...

25

Nov

Latest news:

Cardiff Airport attracts extra Six Nations flying from Dublin with Ryanair Arrow

Ryanair will be offering more seats between Ireland and Wales next February as the airline will add extra flights linking Dublin and Cardiff to ...

25

Nov

Latest news:

Cardiff Airport attracts extra Six Nations flying from Dublin with Ryanair Arrow

Ryanair will be offering more seats between Ireland and Wales next February as the airline will add extra flights linking Dublin and Cardiff to ...

24

Nov

Latest news:

Ryanair to offer more flights through Cardiff next year – 22 weekly flights to Dublin, Algarve and Costa del Sol Arrow

Ryanair to offer more flights through Cardiff next year – 22 weekly flights to Dublin, Algarve and Costa del Sol Ryanair will be offering more ...

24

Nov

Latest news:

Ryanair to offer more flights through Cardiff next year – 22 weekly flights to Dublin, Algarve and Costa del Sol Arrow

Ryanair will be offering more flights to Ireland and Spain from Cardiff Airport next summer as the airline will offer daily flights to Dublin, as ...

28

Oct

Latest news:

Cardiff Airport welcomes Aer Lingus Regional's extra Belfast seats for Summer 23 Arrow

Cardiff Airport welcomes Aer Lingus Regional’s extra Belfast seats for Summer 23 In response to strong demand over the summer, Aer Lingus ...

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