Spotting Movements Log & Heads Up

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Malta Air Boeing 737-800 9H-QDD has just departed from Dublin and will soon make her first LBA visit. This fuselage first appeared at LBA on 27 March 2017 when operated by Ryanair as EI-FTC.

BH

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

SunExpress Boeing 737-800 TC-SOB is enroute from Antalya and will make her first LBA visit later this morning.

BH

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

easyJet Europe Airbus 320 OE-IVT has departed from Malaga and will make her first LBA visit later this afternoon.

BH

 

[CM.]

Titan Airways latest edition to the fleet E190 G-POWX looks to be making a training visit into LBA tomorrow afternoon. Arrives from Prestwick 13:40 and departs back to Stansted 14:05

Albastar are also in on the return charter flight from Tarbes 17:10 and departs empty to Palma 18:45 EC-MLK

STC

 

[Bigman]

I have noticed that we have arrivals today from no less than 15 different airlines. That must be close to being a record for a bog standard weekday

 

[Finger66]

Titan Airways latest edition to the fleet E190 G-POWX looks to be making a training visit into LBA tomorrow afternoon. Arrives from Prestwick 13:40 and departs back to Stansted 14:05

25 minutes on the ground, is that going to be a tight un!
Wonder if there is any more to read in to this?

 

[mullion]

Probably a taxi back to holding point or maybe a crew swap

 

[LsS27]

A replacement for Eastern to Amsterdam?

 

[Finger66]

Someone finally on my sort of thinking wavelength. My actual thought being is it coincidence that Titan have now an E190 in their fleet when KLCH are desperate for help with their UK schedule. Probably ideal to be NWI based if so with Titan being Stansted based. Could help free up some slack for T3. Or is this then even a lease to T3? Could all be 2+2 making 5 but does also seem a bit coincidental

 

[White Heather]

Well it's due here in 5 minutes but still on the ground at Prestwick, so I predict it's going to be somewhat late.

 

[Finger66]

Definitely for T3/KL then!

 

[Ashwo99]

I just find the whole thing a little bizarre, granted T3 could use all the help they can get, if that’s what this E190 is for.

The strange thing for me is that ZT have just streamlined their fleet going all Airbus… and then randomly acquired a single E Jet Erm, a seemingly left field move. Though I’m sure they know what they are doing, they’ve been around a long time.


Oh, and FR24 has LS A21N G-SUNO arriving from REU on LS298, then positioning out to Manchester in the early hours, another strange move

 

[Finger66]

Have they swapped a B738 for an A21N in LTN then on the W?

 

[Ashwo99]

Have they swapped a B738 for an A21N in LTN then on the W?

They may have done, as NO is operating to REU from LTN, oddly though, it’s not a LTN based frame, and has just positioned down from MAN, where it’s returning after operating in to LBA, all seems needlessly complex to me, not just a simple W pattern

Maybe a LTN frame has gone tech?

 

[Finger66]

Think I saw a B738 had posn out to LTN from LBA too. All very odd as you say

 

[BCFC]

25 minutes on the ground, is that going to be a tight un!
Wonder if there is any more to read in to this?

It's tight because it's Yorkshire!

 

[Len Fish]

The Titan E190 will be ideal for football charters.

 

[Ashwo99]

According to FR24, ZT are initially deploying said E190 on behalf of GR, so yesterday’s visit may have been in anticipation of it making an appearance on the GCI run at some point, perhaps.

 

[752]

Like Len Fish pointed out, its a perfect football charter size AC to have knocking about, either Eastern's tided up or tech most of the time, its a lucrative market to tap into.

Also with Aurginy, Blue Islands, Logan air all experiencing ATR issues, the could be eyeing up expensive last minute subs for them.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

SunExpress Boeing 737-800 TC-SNR has just lifted from Antalya and will make her first LBA visit later this afternoon.

BH