Movement Logs & Heads Up

[Rob c DSA]

Not much happening the last couple of days todays scheduled freighter arrived from Nairobi - Air Atlanta Icelandic B747-400F in the Astral livery it will depart to Liege.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Todays visitors a pair of regular arrivals this month

Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F, TF-AMI
RAF, Beechcraft 350ER Shadow R1, ZZ416 - Training

 

[stars&sids]

Wizz Air Uk G-WUKE & G-WUKD have departed for Luton in advance of Wizz Uk restarting flights tomorrow.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Lux Aviation Dassault Falcon 7X OO-LUM - made a first visit

 

[stars&sids]

TF-AMN Magma 747-400 is just turning finals for runway 02 on the SXY 335 arrival from Nairobi.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Round up from the last few days

Sunday

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) Boeing 747-400F, TF-AMU
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) Boeing 747-400F, TF-AMI

Monday

Atlas Helicopters Ltd Aerospatiale AS355F1 Ecureuil II G-OALI - first visit

Tuesday
Cessna 525 CitationJet M2, N95KL - first visit
FAAM BAe-146, G-LUXE

Wednesday

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) Boeing 747-400F, TF-AMR formerly Magma Aviation had a livery change a few days ago now plain white with a blue tail fin
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) Boeing 747-400F, TF-AMN

 

[stars&sids]

Nordwind VP-BJP, 777w just landed DSA from Moscow Sheremetyevo.

 

[stars&sids]

Ha ha phone wouldn't work, nice movement

Great movement, bit out of the blue, noticed it on Planefinder descending over LBA, sadly it turned base leg before I got a chance to actually see it.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Great movement, bit out of the blue, noticed it on Planefinder descending over LBA, sadly it turned base leg before I got a chance to actually see it.

Heads up on it came very late today, I managed to catch a glimpse of it depart while out on the bike this afternoon before it headed your way, expected it to head south then turn towards the coast not go north towards Middlesbrough in the end.

Shame non of the Virgin 330"s made it up today.

 

[stars&sids]

Heads up on it came very late today, I managed to catch a glimpse of it depart while out on the bike this afternoon before it headed your way, expected it to head south then turn towards the coast not go north towards Middlesbrough in the end.

Shame non of the Virgin 330"s made it up today.

Yes, but fingers crossed we might still get a couple.
great views of the 777 climbing out straight above, glad it routed that way.

 

[Rob c DSA]

RAF Airbus A400M Atlas C1 ZM415 trained this evening

 

[Rob c DSA]

Four more of these flights are planned in he next three weeks

Yes, but fingers crossed we might still get a couple.
great views of the 777 climbing out straight above, glad it routed that way.

A couple of Virgin's went elsewhere.

As for the Nordwind the airport is set to receive four more flights over the next few weeks with different airlines. Piece on the airport website and its been on the local news.

 

[stars&sids]

A busy hour at DSA. G-VGBR A333 and G-VSXY A343, both Virgin, just arrived for storage, while 777-31H ER VQ-BGL of Royal Flight is descending on to final approach from Moscow.

 

[dan9999]

How many Virgin Atlantic’s are there at donny now ?

 

[Rob c DSA]

How many Virgin Atlantic’s are there at donny now ?

Seven - three A330-200 four A330-300

 

[stars&sids]

Nordwind VP-BJL, 777-35E (ER) descending over the North Sea for DSA from Moscow Sheremetyevo. Eta 10.03, closely following TF-AMN, 747-400 of Magma Aviation on the regular Sunday morning SXY336.

 

[a300boy]

It has to be said that Finningley /Doncaster has proved itself as a multi use adaptable airport over the last few months and sadly shows how Leeds Bradford can never serve the Yorkshire region in the way i would have liked. Even today if Lba had a 10000 ft runway the crosswind at the moment here would have probably been outside limits for landing.

 

[Rob c DSA]

With reports that the airport were to receive four more flights from Moscow after the Nordwind the other day that made the press carrying medical supplies and that the airport has stated it will receive over 300 tonnes of freight over the next few weeks it will be interesting to see how many of these flights come in.

The first Royal flight 777 hasn't been included at part of those four flights we've already had four with two Royal Flight and two Nordwind so should see at least one more

Birmingham is seeing them Heathrow had a Nordwind the other day and a Royal flight . Wales has had the Pegas Fly a couple of times assume that all these are part of the same batch of 60 planned flights unless the Welsh flights are different.

 

[Rob c DSA]

It has to be said that Finningley /Doncaster has proved itself as a multi use adaptable airport over the last few months and sadly shows how Leeds Bradford can never serve the Yorkshire region in the way i would have liked. Even today if Lba had a 10000 ft runway the crosswind at the moment here would have probably been outside limits for landing.

From a diversity of operations point and also a movement point of view (as spotters) DSA certainly has some strings to its bow however the unfortunate thing is for the second time in three years the airport has benefitted from others misfortunate. Stepping back a little further to the back end of 2016 the airport handled a fair few EMA movements due to runway resurfacing over a six week period hopefully that event played a role in the airport being used in 2018 for the 747 flights from America that came due to an incident at a Ford factory where a large scale fire destroyed machinery needed to operate, leaving things to be transferred over here to a factory in Nottingham.

I guess the reason DSA was chosen over EMA was the fact that a number of flights landed in the evening/night which EMA probably didn't really want due to normal operations at those times with cargo flights being in full flow leaving the field open for DSA to take on the work it's possible a fair amount of luck was involved as well as hard work on that occasion but we can only speculate.

This pandemic again has shown DSA can step up to the mark on these sort of occasions its good for the airport of course however it ain't a model for success or planned for it isn't like a MAG going out and putting a dozen new carrier's in to Manchester and Stansted between them in a year.

Will these short term gains in cargo due to the pandemic lead to longer term gains and new cargo carrier's coming in even short term after the worst of the pandemic is over or will the potential of a long term recovery of commercial operations hinder the airport far more than the short term gains in cargo and parking fees the airport is seeing at present to offset the loss of passenger operations.

I would hope the airport management (but fear they haven't) been out and about on the tarmac putting some video's and brochures together documenting what DSA can offer for storage and cargo and trying to drum up some new business for the time we get past Covid so the DSA balance sheets look better than they have done so far.

 

[Rob c DSA]

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) Boeing 747-400F, TF-AMU todays third freighter has arrived from Cairo it will depart to Liege