Aviation Nostalgia Thread

[lbaspotter]

Back when Thomson use to operate Boeing 757-200's into LBA. February 19th 2004

G-CDUP
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G-BYAS
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[paully]

Are they still flying?

G-CDUP became our own G-LSAJ in 2008 and still flying
G-BYAS became N925FD for Fed Ex in 2009 and still flying

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

For no reason whatsoever other than to take our minds off the virus for a few seconds, the Airbus 320 EI-DIJ of Eirjet operated a sub charter on behalf of Astraeus AEU937P/951 from Dublin to Mahon on 02 September 2005.

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Eirjet had up to four A320s to operate charter flights during their brief existence between December 2004 and October 2006. Their most infamous event was a crew mistake in March 2006 when an A320 operating on behalf of Ryanair from Liverpool to Derry landed at Ballykelly Airfield, some 3 miles short of the intended destination!

BH

 

[airforced]

No wonder they went belly up if their local knowledge couldn't tell the difference between Ballykelly and Derry. Not that I would know but surely they should have.

 

[Bigman]

I flew on G-BYAS to Malaga from LBA in 2002.

 

[LBA4EVER]

No wonder they went belly up if their local knowledge couldn't tell the difference between Ballykelly and Derry. Not that I would know but surely they should have.

in the pilots defence both airfield layouts look pretty much the same and the runways face the same direction lol

 

[lbaspotter]

(AEU) "Fly-Star" - Gone but not Forgotten!

Astraeus first appeared at Leeds/Bradford (LBA) operating a weekly charter flight to Malta in summer 2004 for tour operator Malta Bargains. Around the same period they leased a few aircraft to UK based airline Flybe and these also often appeared operating the daily Exeter - Leeds - Aberdeen round trip.

Astraeus had a single aircraft operation based at LBA for 2x years (2005 to 2006) operating a weekly charter flight programme on behalf of Thomas Cook Holidays with Boeing 737-300's before moving onto the newer fleet of Boeing 737-700's.
They teamed up with independent tour operators whom offered the first ever departures from LBA to Taba in Egypt, Banjul in Gambia and If I remember correctly to Funchal in Maderia. (Before Jet2)

The maybe other routes and tour operators whom I missed that they operated out of for LBA too.

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[Finger66]

It would be nice if Loganair could be in a position to commit something to LBA once the COVID19 outbreak is over. Most of you will understand the link there! However I think we will be reliant on T3 and maybe U2 to pick up on any slack left by BE. The sad thing is we are in for one hell of a long road to recovery after all this. Nice to see to some happy memories to put a smile on our faces though

 

[a300boy]

They sem to be totally out of love with Lba !
do wonder what happened and the reason they left in the first place but no doubt we will see if they come back or not.

 

[SNOWMAN]

hi 300boy
loganair stopped the glasgow service as it was losing money.
regards
sm

 

[lbaspotter]

hi 300boy
loganair stopped the glasgow service as it was losing money.
regards
sm

I seem to also remember that excessive Fees charged by LBA were also to blame to the routes demise.

Well it seems like I've opened a can of worms with me Astraeus post.

 

[lbaspotter]

Air Southwest - Another Airline from LBA's past, but not forgotten

Air Southwest fleet of 5+ Dash 8-Q3000's started to first appear at Leeds/Bradford Airport from April 2005 operating double daily flights to Bristol and also a offered daily one-stop service to both Newquay & Plymouth.
At the peak of its operation (2007-2010) Air Southwest was running a daily direct service from LBA to Newquay and increased its Bristol route to 3x daily services along with its one-stop service to Plymouth.
Sadly the airline was sold to Eastern Airways in 2010, whom sadly run down the operation over a 12 month period and finally ceased ops as of 30 September 2011

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[Finger66]

I seem to also remember that excessive Fees charged by LBA were also to blame to the routes demise.

Well it seems like I've opened a can of worms with me Astraeus post.

Probably my fault for providing a tenuous Loganair link. Perhaps a chance for LBA to help rebuild by reducing fees if that part is also true!

 

[a300boy]

You cannot change the past but you can change the future !!!

 

[lbaspotter]

Swe-fly - Gone but not Forgotten

Swe-fly started operations from Leeds/Bradford Airport in spring 2005 using a leased BAe 146 from Transwede, This aircraft was used to feed passengers over Stockholm/Skavsta to connect onto the airlines long hau flights to Lahore in Pakistan.

Due to passenger demand the feeder service was very quickly dropped and so the airlines own Boeing 767-200, SE-RBV started to appear at LBA, eventually flights started operating direct to Lahore without the Stockholm stop over.

The airline also operated into London Luton but sadly they didn't last very long and ceased all operations as of 2nd of September 2005.

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[BarnsleyHolidays]

And having a rest on Stand 10, taken on 29 August 2005.

BH

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[ls27]

Didn't they use a DC9 for awhile because the 146 wasn't big enough and then they brought the 767 in?

 

[LBA4EVER]

Who would of thought an airline from Sweden operating direct flights to Pakistan from LBA! perfect aircraft to use out of LBA with a good colour scheme.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Didn't they use a DC9 for awhile because the 146 wasn't big enough and then they brought the 767 in?

One of the substitute aircraft was Dubrovnik Airline MD83 9A-CDA which operated flights SWV444/443 from and to Skavsta, pictured here on 28 July 2005.

BH
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[SNOWMAN]

hi barnsley holiday
lovely photo did you take it? looks like a typical leeds summers day.
regards
sm