BHX Movements and Heads Up

[HPsauce]

The FlightService A332 9H-BFS is due in from Washington at 05.05E MLF302F on Saturday according to FR24.

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Air Tanker A332 G-VYGK due in from Brize Norton at 07.42E. TOM865P flight number, so presumably covering for TUI ?.

 

[rollo]

The Maleth A332 9H-BFS is due back today having left on the 15th to Phnom Pehnm then to Tbilisi, Washington and back to Birmingham.
Quite a trip.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

9H-BFS has just landed on R33, after performing a couple of holds over Walsall. Anyone know why it was in the hold?

Kevin

 

[A330]

9H-BFS has just landed on R33, after performing a couple of holds over Walsall. Anyone know why it was in the hold?

Kevin

Overnight runaway works are planned to finish at 6am so I presume runaway had not re-opened?

 

[rollo]

Air Tanker A332 G-VYGK due in from Brize Norton at 07.42E. TOM865P flight number, so presumably covering for TUI ?.

It's operating the TUI flight to Montego Bay I believe Air Tanker has no IFE. If so some unhappy passengers on a nine hour plus flight I would imagine still by teatime they will be in the Caribbean sun.

TUI also have a 789 off to Barbados this morning even more faces.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

FR24 is showing 2 arrivals from Bridgetown (BGI) tomorrow morning, BY279, B787-8 due at 05:40 and BY763, B787-9 due at 05:55 (no registrations currently available). I've searched these flight numbers on FR24 but can't find any flights prior to 20 Nov. Are they a winter cruise service?

Kevin

 

[IanFarquharson]

FR24 is showing 2 arrivals from Bridgetown (BGI) tomorrow morning, BY279, B787-8 due at 05:40 and BY763, B787-9 due at 05:55 (no registrations currently available). I've searched these flight numbers on FR24 but can't find any flights prior to 20 Nov. Are they a winter cruise service?

Kevin

TOM279 = G-TUIF BGI
TOM763 = G-TUIM BGI
TOM243 = G-VYGK CUN

0700 - OE-FNP
0825 - I-TOPX
1605 - 9H-JCE

 

[HPsauce]

Star Air B762F is due in from Cologne at 01.40E. Due to work on EMA runway.

 

[IanFarquharson]

Star Air B762F is due in from Cologne at 01.40E. Due to work on EMA runway.

OY-SRJ

 

[rollo]

FR24 is showing 2 arrivals from Bridgetown (BGI) tomorrow morning, BY279, B787-8 due at 05:40 and BY763, B787-9 due at 05:55 (no registrations currently available). I've searched these flight numbers on FR24 but can't find any flights prior to 20 Nov. Are they a winter cruise service?

Kevin

Yes, they are cruise flights from BGI and there was a total of four flights to Bridgetown over the weekend for P&O and TUI Marella Cruises. P&Os operation is different this year. They currently have only one ship out there with a 3,600 passenger capacity normally its two ships however a larger new ship begins operating from mid January with a capacity of 5,500 which gives them a total increase of around 30% over previous years operations. I don't think the Cancun 789 is a cruise flight Marella use the Montego Bay flights for that.

Hopefully BHX may see increases in flights for the second half of winter. For winter 23/24 as both ships do the whole season starting October,my wife and I have booked for next December flying from Brum naturally.

 

[Karl C]

Ditto Rollo.....booked on the Britannia for December from BHX

 

[rollo]

Arvia for us, the wife wants to try the big one!

 

[Karl C]

My first cruise.....got a great deal on a suite...so booked it. Seems so far away until next December.

 

[Garybrum]

Cargojet 767 due in at 18.45 from hamilton YHM

 

[rollo]

Looking at FR24 the Cargjet767 reg C-GCIJ just passing east of Worcester so will go close to me as it approaches BHX.just about now.

 

[HPsauce]

Good to see Flybe return tomorrow on their Scottish routes. I hope no damage has been done to their customer base over the last few weeks.

 

[jfy1999]

Jet Netherlands E135 PH-DWS is scheduled to position in from Antwerp at 0755 tomorrow and depart to Stuttgart at 0900

 

[Kevin Farnell]

A330-200 (9H-BFS, MLT302F) is due back tomorrow at 16:01 from DUB.

Kevin

 

[pianokeys]

A330-200 (9H-BFS, MLT302F) is due back tomorrow at 16:01 from DUB.

Kevin

A few months ago when it arrived at BHX from Doha, I was waiting for a train at Bham Int and happened to be sitting near the crew who were on their way to New St. From the conversation it would appear that one might live in the midlands. With good rail links to BHX it may be that the aircraft is ‘based’ here between flights for ease of access. Perhaps it has some arrangement ? Might be wrong of course.

 

[mullion]

It doesn`t mean much that. as I used to live next door to BA long haul crew in Stockport and they used to jump on the shuttle
a couple of days a week to Heathrow, always said the commute was easier than living in London and it was free