Birmingham: (BHX) - Expected Movements & Heads Up

[Ray Finkle]

Some of interest today:

05:00 Thomson 787 G-TUIC Punta Cana
06:55 American 757 N185AN JFK
07:05 Wizz Air A320 HA-LPR Bucharest
07:10 United 757 N17128 Newark
07:50 Emirates 77W A6-EBO Dubai
08:18 Sunwing 738 C-FYLC Toronto
09:40 Turkish 738 TC-JHU Istanbul
10:15 Norwegian 738 EI-FJI Barcelona
10:20 Norwegian 738 EI-FHP Madrid
12:20 Emirates A380 A6-EOX Dubai
12:20 Qatar 787 A7-BCN Doha
12:30 Czech Airlines A319 OK-NEM Prague
14:20 Vueling A320 EC-MAI Barcelona
15:15 Turkmenistan 757 EZ-A014 Ashgabat
15:50 Pakistan 77W AP-BID Islamabad
16:00 Turkish 738 Istanbul
17:05 Iberia A320 EC-LKG Madrid
18:00 Air India 787 VT-ANO Delhi
19:35 Emirates 77W Dubai
20:55 Wizz Air A320 Sofia

Two more routes from Flybe start today in Biarritz and Brest.

 

[Ray Finkle]

C-FYLC is currently over the Lake District.

 

[Brummiegem]

Noticed an RAF C17 land this morning at about 0550.
I don't know if it was a medevac flight or a Brize diversion.Anybody know anything?

 

[Brummiegem]

It turns out that the C17 was a Brize diversion.
For the record it was ZZ172.

 

[Ray Finkle]

FR24 lists an Air Austral flight due at 08:15 tomorrow morning, UU8164 from CDG.

 

[Brummiegem]

I wonder how accurate that info is.It is down as an A319..
According to plane spotters.net and their database Air Austral do not have any A319s.
So unless it is coming in for maintenance prior to lease,then this info might be a bit dodgy.
Happy to be proved wrong,and as I'm not in work I might even pop down and have a look!

 

[jfy1999]

FR24 lists an Air Austral flight due at 08:15 tomorrow morning, UU8164 from CDG.

It's a codeshare with Air France. FR24 does that sometimes with codeshares. A little while ago it was showing Lufthansa flights as Singapore Airlines.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Sunwing 737 C-FWGH is showing on FR24, due 19:05 from Toronto.

 

[jfy1999]

Sunwing 737 C-FWGH is showing on FR24, due 19:05 from Toronto.

Are we having two based Sunwing aircraft then?

 

[Brum X]

Are we having two based Sunwing aircraft then?

I really like the livery of the Sunwing 737s 🙂

 

[Ray Finkle]

Are we having two based Sunwing aircraft then?

C-FYLC positioned out to Warsaw to fly for Travel Service. Not sure how long it is planned to be there.

 

[jfy1999]

Re: Thomson—I'm not looking forward to seeing the 757s phased out if only 737s are going to replace them. Hopefully BHX will have grown enough by the time the 757s leave to justify some short haul 787 flights—something which was actually rumoured last summer but never happened.

In my opinion it would be a huge failure for BHX in the leisure market if we didn't have two full-time based 787s by 2020.

 

[Ray Finkle]

C-FWGH just about to land. This is the one which should be based for the summer.

 

[Karl C]

Evening all....Looks like G-ZBAS on its way to BHX from Gibraltar. Not sure if it's a first visit. Flew on it two weeks ago LTN-DLM.....Nice aircraft, but strangely all seat back headrests have Air Asia on them!

Cheers

Karl

 

[jfy1999]

Evening all....Looks like G-ZBAS on its way to BHX from Gibraltar. Not sure if it's a first visit. Flew on it two weeks ago LTN-DLM.....Nice aircraft, but strangely all seat back headrests have Air Asia on them!

Cheers

Karl

I think I can guess its previous operator 🙂

 

[Karl C]

I believe Air Asia has never operated this aircraft....as far as I know.
Maybe destined for Air Asia but went to Monarch?

Cheers

Karl

 

[jfy1999]

Some flights have been upgraded this morning as the half term rush starts.

Aer Lingus used A321 EI-CPE.
Swiss used A320 HB-IJJ in place of the usual Helvetic F100.
Lufthansa are using A320 D-AIQU on their flight from Munich in place of the usual A319/E195.

 

[jfy1999]

Some flights have been upgraded this morning as the half term rush starts.

Aer Lingus used A321 EI-CPE.
Swiss used A320 HB-IJJ in place of the usual Helvetic F100.
Lufthansa are using A320 D-AIQU on their flight from Munich in place of the usual A319/E195.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Tomorrow we have three flights from Vueling.

Alicante starts (bought forwards due to school holidays no doubt) with FR24 showing EC-MCU on the first one, due at 08:45.

We also have two Barcelona flights with EC-MKX due at 08:55 and EC-LAA due later at 14:20.

Blue Air are using an A320 again tomorrow.

 

[Ray Finkle]

BHAir A330 LZ-AWA arrived earlier from Sofia. It departed around 15 mins ago.