Doncaster Sheffield - Cargo Operations

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Freight operations at DSA

Sun 5 Apr 2020
Magma Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMI) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Frankfurt
Astral Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

Mon 6 Apr 2020
No movements

Tue 7 Apr 2020
Astral Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

Wed 8 Apr 2020
Magma Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMP) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege
Cargolux B747-8 (LX-VCH) - Arrived from Baku / Departed to Luxembourg - (This aircraft operated Taipei-Bangkok-Baku-Doncaster on the same flight number)

 

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Freight operations at DSA

Sun 5 Apr 2020
Magma Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMI) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Frankfurt
Astral Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

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Mon 6 Apr 2020
No movements

Tue 7 Apr 2020
Astral Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

Wed 8 Apr 2020
Magma Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMP) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege
Cargolux B747-8 (LX-VCH) - Arrived from Baku / Departed to Luxembourg

Thu 9 Apr 2020
No movements

Fri 10 Apr 2020
Magma Aviation B747-400 (TF-AMR) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

 

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Freight operations at DSA
7x B747 cargo flights over the last week!

Astral Aviation (8V is the flight code) ran 3x weekly from Nairobi (Tu, Fr, Su) - Tu and Su flights operated by Astral's only B747 (TF-AMU), and the Friday flight was operated by a Magma Aviation painted aircraft under the Astral flight code.

Safari Express Cargo (SXY is the flight code) ran 3x weekly from Nairobi (We, Sa, Su) - all three flights operated by a Magma Aviation painted aircraft.

Note: The Magma and Astral aircraft (TF-AMI/N/P/R/U) are all operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic.

Mon 6 Apr 2020
No movements

Tue 7 Apr 2020
B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Astral Aviation (op as 8V) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

Wed 8 Apr 2020
B747-400 (TF-AMP) - Magma Aviation (op as SXY) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege
B747-8 (LX-VCH) - Cargolux - Arrived from Baku / Departed to Luxembourg

Thu 9 Apr 2020
No movements

Fri 10 Apr 2020
B747-400 (TF-AMR) - Magma Aviation (op as 8V) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

Sat 11 Apr 2020
B747-400 (TF-AMN) - Magma Aviation (op as SXY) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Dubai World Central

Sun 12 Apr 2020
B747-400 (TF-AMI) - Magma Aviation (op as SXY) - Arrived from Nairobi (via Ciaro) / Departed to Frankfurt
B747-400 (TF-AMU) - Astral Aviation (op as 8V) - Arrived from Nairobi / Departed to Liege

 

[Rob c DSA]

Excellent round up

 

[twevsmiff]

Royal Flight Boeing 777 VQ-BGP(ABG 9608) just crossing Lincolnshire descending out of 16,000' inbound from Moscow

 

[Rob c DSA]

A couple of freighter shots from back in September 2017

Cargojet Airways Boeing 767-3OO(BCF) C-FGSJ and Qatar Cargo Airbus A330-200F A7-AFG

 

[Rob c DSA]

22 freight movements for April

 

[Rob c DSA]

42 freight movements for May aircraft used were

Antonov AN12
Boeing 747-400
Boeing 747-400F
Boeing 767-300
Boeing 777-300

 

[Rob c DSA]

49 freight movements for June. 27 of which were 747's

Airlines and aircraft types that visited

Air Atlanta Icelandic 747-400
Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Nordwind Airlines 777-300
Royal Flight Boeing 777-300
Silk Way West Airlines 747-400F
Sunday Airlines Boeing 767-300
Ukrainian Wings 767-300
Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 767-300F

 

[Seasider]

Didn't the Kam Air B767 operate in June?

 

[Rob c DSA]

Didn't the Kam Air B767 operate in June?

Ukrainian Wings is the airline it's wearing it's previous owners livery of Kam Air.

 

[Rob c DSA]

July cargo movements

27 from the below carriers

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Royal Flight Boeing 777-300
Silk Way West Airlines 747-400F

 

[Rob c DSA]

August freight movements 12

Operated by

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Aviastar-TU Boeing 757-200F
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Royal Flight Boeing 777-300

 

[stars&sids]

August freight movements 12

Operated by

Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Aviastar-TU Boeing 757-200F
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) 747-400F
Royal Flight Boeing 777-300

A bit disappointing now we’re in the post - ppe phase, and the Magma/Astral seems to have settled back into the 3 weekly services we saw before lockdown.
here’s hoping the airport team can drum up a bit more business for the future.

 

[Rob c DSA]

A bit disappointing now we’re in the post - ppe phase, and the Magma/Astral seems to have settled back into the 3 weekly services we saw before lockdown.
here’s hoping the airport team can drum up a bit more business for the future.

12 seems on the low side. It would only equate to 10 Air Atlanta movements and the worst freight month in a long time.

This month already has seen 5 Astral/Magma movements so demand must be picking up again and would if continuing be more like the figures hoped for if 5-6 flights a week were coming in the schedule is for up to that number but can be just a couple a week.

The issue the airport has is with EMA down the road the only real chance of any other freight bar the scheduled Astral and Magma stuff is the odd ad hoc flight and how much ad hoc freight is knocking about to pick up EMA are aggressively looking for new freight contracts, I am sure the airport would love more cargo however the reality is the cargo team face an uphill battle to get it/find it as we have seen before the airport comes in to its own for freight when difficult situations arise Covid, 2018 and the flights from the USA along with when EMA had the runway resurfaced.

 

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Wed 9th Sep 2020
Today at least saw an interesting visitor...
Back again was the unique Ilyushin IL-62M (EW-450TR) of Rada Airlines. At 35 years old, it's the last remaining civilian IL-62 left flying in the world, so a very rare sight!
It arrived this evening (20:40) from Tekirdağ Çorlu in Turkey (just to the West of Istanbul) and will be overnighting. It arrived in Turkey from Maputo, Mozambique and spent a couple of hours on the ground - not sure if it continued to DSA with cargo from Maputo, or whether it was new cargo from Turkey or if it arrived empty!?

Also present today was Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) B747-400F (TF-AMN) which arrived this morning from Nairobi and departed to Frankfurt Hahn a couple of hours later.

 

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Thu 10th Sep 2020
Ilyushin IL-62M (EW-450TR) of Rada Airlines departed DSA today for Sal, in the Azores at 11:15. It hasn't departed Sal yet, so unsure whether this was it's final destination or a fuel stop for somewhere further South!

 

[Rob c DSA]

September freight movements 19, 7 airlines

AirBridgeCargo B747-800F
ASL Airlines B737-400F
Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) B747-400F
CargoLogicAir B747-400F
Rada Airlines Ilyushin Il-62MF
Sprint Air Saab 340AF
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) B747-400F

 

[Rob c DSA]

October freight 16 movements

ASL Airlines B737-400F
Astral Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) B747-400F
Etihad Cargo B777F
Longtail Aviation B747-400F
Magma Aviation (Air Atlanta Icelandic) B747-400F

Also the below operated in empty

Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400
Longtail Aviation B747-400F

 

[Scottie Dog]

I've been doing some playing around this afternoon and thought you might find this chart of inerest - all figures are in Tonnes.

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