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[a300boy]

Its hard to believe we had no ski flights at all 10 or so years ago. Lets hope Inghams make a success of Innsbruck and add to our portfolio.

 

[a300boy]

Todays Monarch Munich flight WAS operated by A321 G-MARA.
and Easyjets Geneva flight by A319 G-EZBI.

 

[White Heather]

I don't know if anyone saw it but what looked like an RAF Avro RJ85 visited LBA this morning It passed low over Cookridge heading South at 0955 and then made a missed approach (a very early missed approach, well before it reached the runway) at 1000. I don't think it came back again - certainly didn't hear it.

 

[Lamix1W]

It was bae146 ZH700 from 32 the royal squadron. Doing a procedural NDB approach before continuing to the Isle of Man

 

[lbaspotter]

It was bae146 ZH700 from 32 the royal squadron. Doing a procedural NDB approach before continuing to the Isle of Man

She actually did 2 approaches yesterday morning. Meanwhile we also had RAF, C130 Hercules ZH870 do an ILS run yesterday evening with callsign "Ascot 670"

 

[lbaspotter]

Enter Air are using Boeing 737-400, SP-ENK today charter. She positioned in earlier from London Gatwick and will operate out to Kiruna for Transun Travel

 

[Lamix1W]

What other approach did it do? It only stopped on its way through?

 

[White Heather]

After the approach I saw, it didn't come back as I stood for ages watching to see if it did. And when I saw it fly over Cookridge it was not in a circuit - it was travelling fast and descending ready for an approach, so I am surprised if it did more than one missed approach.

 

[Lamix1W]

I was going to say, if it did a second approach I'm sure ATC would have known about it

 

[The Pole]

It was bae146 ZH700 from 32 the royal squadron. Doing a procedural NDB approach before continuing to the Isle of Man

She actually did 2 approaches yesterday morning. Meanwhile we also had RAF, C130 Hercules ZH870 do an ILS run yesterday evening with callsign "Ascot 670"

the Hercules did 2 approaches. the 2nd was an ndb not sure about first.

 

[a300boy]

BA operated A320 G-MIDY on tonights flight.

 

[lbaspotter]

What other approach did it do? It only stopped on its way through?

It did one approach at 0950 and saw it go overhead a second time at 10.06.

 

[White Heather]

If that is the case then it did a very odd circuit in between missed approaches, because at 0955 it was flying directly over Cookridge at high speed, descending down toward the South West - in fact it appeared to heading for Manchester, such was its speed and direction. It was nowhere near the usual 'downwind circuit'. It must have done a figure of 8, turning right after the 32 missed approach, climbing quite high and then crossing the centre line again heading back to the SW, before turning back on to the 32 approach. If it had already done a missed approach, then its speed was surprising, as it was travelling at a fair rate as it passed over me. According to my times though the 2nd approach was 1000 and it didn't come back before 1020 when I gave up watching.

All a bit of a mystery then.

 

[Lamix1W]

What lbaspotter probably saw was the aircraft go beacon outbound and track southbound before doing the ndb approach.

He definately only did one approach hope that helps

 

[White Heather]

Thanks Lamix1W - I wasn't dreaming it then.

 

[lbaspotter]

BA using A320, G-MIDO on this afternoon's SHT1342/1343 service.

 

[lbaspotter]

British Airways have just sent up Airbus A320, G-MIDO again on this evenings SHT1344/1345 service. Hopefully its because it's carrying extra passengers due to todays problems with East Coast mainline trains.

 

[lbaspotter]

British Airways are continuing to use the larger Airbus A320's on the Leeds/Bradford - Heathrow shuttles this today. G-MEDK has done both the SHT1340/1341 & SHT1346/1347 rotations so far.

 

[lbaspotter]

Enter Air, Boeing 737-400, SP-ENK is due in again this evening at around 20:30 from Kiruna which is operating inbound via London Gatwick as ENT3524

 

[a300boy]

No sign of a flight to Luton for the Bradford City game on their site. Is it still operating or cancelled ?