Ryanair ordered to cancel flights to Faro and Malaga from Cardiff Airport on Friday

The Welsh government, which wholly owns the airport, still has a legal five mile restriction for non-essential travel in place and people are required to ‘stay local’ in Wales.

It means that anyone living more than five miles from the airport is effectively breaching the travel rule to catch a flight, reports say.

Under the Welsh government’s coronavirus roadmap, the five-mile rule could be lifted next week as part of the next stage of the easing process.

As it currently stands, anybody returning to the UK will need to quarantine for 14 days.

A Welsh government spokesperson said: “We don’t believe these flights should be going ahead and we have written to Ryanair to ask them to postpone.”