Birmingham: (BHX) - Expected Movements & Heads Up

[Ray Finkle]

After spending last night at BHX Flair Jet Embraer Phenom 100 G-ITSU returned not long ago and should spend another night on the Elmdon Apron.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Thomas Cook 763 G-TCCB is operating Banjul, it is due back to BHX just after 22:00.

 

[Ray Finkle]

The Biman DC-10 S2-ACR is scheduled to arrive on Thursday from Dhaka via Kuwait. It is due on the 20th, at 16:20 I believe, and will spend Friday parked up, most likely on 85C or 86C. Saturday, Sunday and Monday it will be doing the scenic flights then Tuesday will be departing to Bruntingthorpe to be preserved in the aviation museum.

Apparently Ian Allen will have a pop up shop selling memorabilia situated in the flight school which was the old viewing area.

 

[User0001]

I thought it was going to Seattle? Typical Biman, couldn't stick to a plan if their life depended on it!

 

[Ray Finkle]

BG 1015 from Dhaka via Kuwait is now on BHX arrivals scheduled for 16:20 tomorrow.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Tuesday will be departing to Bruntingthorpe to be preserved in the aviation museum.

I thought it was going to Seattle? Typical Biman, couldn't stick to a plan if their life depended on it!

Word is there may now be a plan c 🙄

 

[User0001]

And the word is that Plan C is to part the aircraft out for recycling.

Seems the BS bandwagon goes on.

'We will open BHX/JFK in April with shiny new B77W's'

turns to

'We will hopefully open BHX/JFK in June with clapped out B772's'

'We will donate the DC10 to Seatlle and offer the BHX-SEA flight'

Turns to

'The aircraft will be scrapped at Bruntingthorpe'

'MAN is too expensive for us'

Turns to

'We will open MAN flights later this year'.

Has Kevin Steele taken the Michael O'Leary class of PR?

Still, at least the DC10 actually turned up on the day they said, but is surely now people can see why some of us MAN folk are weary of Biman?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Swiss have again got an extra flight today for the half term, this mornings is an A320 with an A321 at 12:50 and another A321 at 18:10. The 18:10 is planned to be HB-ION which will be a first visit to BHX.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Beech 99 N899AE just arrived, it will be used for some air to air photography of the DC-10 flights the first of which is currently in the air.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Plenty of extra flights to/from DUB this week with Aer Lingus adding two A321's and an A320 to the normal schedule today, there were also extra Ryanair's. These are for the Cheltenham Festival which starts tomorrow.

 

[Ray Finkle]

There's reports that an RAF Tristar ZD951 landed at BHX a short while ago. Four were due at Bruntingthorpe today from Brize with reports of three routing over Coventry, no idea why the fourth one would make a stop at BHX (if indeed it has) unless the weather is bad in Leicestershire.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Well none of the movement blogs showed a Tristar yesterday so someone seems to have got the wrong end of the stick somewhere.

Jet2 738 G-GDFP arrived this afternoon at 14:35 and departed and hour later, no idea why?

 

[Ray Finkle]

Thomson 738 G-TAWS is due at 09:14 on a delivery flight from Boeing Field as TOM9745.

Estonian Air ERJ170 is due at 15:45 as OV9752.

Subject to change of course.

 

[Ray Finkle]

The Thomson 738 ended up going to Luton.

 

[BHXsupporter]

Well none of the movement blogs showed a Tristar yesterday so someone seems to have got the wrong end of the stick somewhere.

A siting was reported on Wednesday http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... 1&page=234 and I saw this over Chipping Campden from nearby heading towards Stratford-upon-Avon around that time - a glorious view for about 30 seconds. Surprized no-one else reported it.

 

[BHXsupporter]

Sorry 'sighting'!

 

[Ray Finkle]

Thanks for the info. There were a few reports of one very low over Coventry with wheels down so maybe someone assumed it was en route to BHX.

I saw this over Chipping Campden from nearby heading towards Stratford-upon-Avon around that time - a glorious view for about 30 seconds.

I bet it was an awesome sight 🙂

 

[Ray Finkle]

Carpetair F100 YR-FKA landed recently operating for Flybe.

West Atlantic should be operating a charter through BHX this Saturday using a 737, no times as yet.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Turkish 739 diverted to MAN will be back around midday.

 

[Aviador]

Why did it divert?