Expected Movements & Heads Up

[Barry Beeth]

Is it crewed exclusively by geordies?

 

[58terminus]

Is it crewed exclusively by geordies?

Yes.It also has a big picture of Alan Shearer on the tail

 

[Ray Finkle]

Is it crewed exclusively by geordies?

We also had this aircraft operating the first BA flight.......Why eye man

 

[Ianbutty]

Just spent and hour with the kids in the garden on a very sunny Essex evening watching the planes. Have F24 on and 50 flights to and from BHX currently in the air. At this time of night that is pretty impressive. When I was a lad 50 flights a day was impressive.

But an A340 went over en route to LHR. Got me thinking, after I calmed down child number 2 after i told him it is one of the biggest planes in the world..."how does it stay up, it is so big?...but has an A340 graced the tarmac at BHX?

 

[thunderchild]

Jhas an A340 graced the tarmac at BHX?

The only regular scheduled A340 to BHX was the short lived Air Blue service to Islamabad. Other than that just a few ad-hocs here and there such as the French Air Force. We've had a couple of exotic A340 diverts over the years...Air Tahitia Nui, Air Asia X and South African Airways to name a few.

 

[jfy1999]

HiFly operated the MOD charters to Paderborn and Hannover for most of 2014. At first they used an A340-300 but then switched to an A310, then an A330.

Picture from the Birmingham Airport Photo Blog

 

[thunderchild]

Forgot about those

 

[hammerb32]

Wasn't there a semi regular flight from one of the Saudi royal famly members private a340s a few years ago? Dropping one of the kids to school from memory....in my day we walked.

 

[Ianbutty]

Thanks both. The one from Manila this evening at 12,000 catching the evening sun looked stunning.

 

[jfy1999]

Cobalt are back on track for now. 5B-DCR is on its way from Larnaca.

Air Transat is A332 C-GTSN which the most recent photos show as wearing Travel Service titles (after it was leased to them) but it hasn't done a lot of flying recently so it may have had its Air Transat titles painted back on since then. Will have to wait and see!

 

[Brum X]

Due in tomorrow TF-FIR in new Icelandair livery subject to change.

 

[thunderchild]

Still showing!

 

[CoalPowered]

And here it is

 

[thunderchild]

Nice! Icelandair certainly know how to do a special livery.

 

[Brum X]

And here it is

Cheers for the pic CoalPowered

 

[jfy1999]

There are 32 biz jets (as it stands) booked into BHX over the weekend of 3-4 June for the Champions League final. Other airports are apparently turning them away - no more room?

Don't shoot the messenger but there may be a 747 visiting on the morning of June 3 (Saturday)!

Information from jon01 and centre cities on PPRuNe

 

[Ray Finkle]

Seeing as it's out there now it's probably safe to say that the 747 IF it happens should be Wamos Air.

There is also an Air Europa A332 due from BRS for parking.

 

[Brum X]

Seeing as it's out there now it's probably safe to say that the 747 IF it happens should be Wamos Air.

There is also an Air Europa A332 due from BRS for parking.

Good for the spotters

 

[Ray Finkle]

We have five Wizz flights today with three of those on an A321.

07:55 Warsaw (A321), 07:56 Bucharest (A321), 19:50 Budapest A320, 19:55 Sofia (A321), 21:20 Poznan (A320).

Blue Air from Bucharest is 738 YR-BMJ

TK1967/8 is 739 TC-JYI

Cobalt A319 5B-DCU

The British Airways flights are showing as G-LCYF (Florence), G-LCYT (Ibiza), G-LCYU (Palma) and G-LCYM (Malaga).

 

[Brum X]

This is what is currently due to arrive and depart BHX next weekend.
MSP anyone ?