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Might as well call it an assembly hall. I envision many Ryanair passengers being sat in cold steel chairs, while getting scolded by Headmaster O'Leary for being naughty kids!

From looking at the picture, it seems to be overlooking the Northbound M6 at Junction 3A (Coleshill Interchange). It is most likely drone footage taken from the fields north of the interchange, can't see any towers or high points nearby.

TUI 787 coming in from Detroit also

I know this may be insane, but Sun Country Airlines? They had launched a route between Minneapolis and Stansted back in 2010 on 737s

Thanks, Ray.

Just noticed several flights are either holding around Birmingham's airspace, and there is a Monarch A321 from Tenerife which I believe is diverting to Manchester. Why could this be? Source: flightradar24.com

It is believed it is something to do with a 'military coup' going on in Turkey, according to this report from the guardian, and may be associated with the reason for the planes diverting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara

Another Norwegian 787 (NAX8881) EI-LNH, is now on route to BHX. 17.11- UPDATE: Plane was actually en route to Stockholm Arlanda.

Cheers for that, though it seems odd to me that they would do circuit training. :s_dunno

EXS051B EXS051B (G-LSAN) aborted landing repeatedly from Birmingham Airport, originated from LBA. Source:http://www.flightradar24.com Aircraft may have taken a very strange flight path, circling over the North Sea, and then flying straight down to Birmingham. UPDATE: It is now flying back...

BE840 (G-PRPD) Expected arrival at 08:00 UTC in a United livery Source: http://www.flightradar24.com http://www.jetphotos.net/photo/8180277

Thank you for the information, Ray. :good:

Route Development and Rumours Would the flights to China be all year round or charter flights, like Hainan Airlines and China Southern to Beijing? The fact that Schiphol is the only European city to have connection to Hangzhou, In my opinion, it would be a big step for Birmingham to be the...