Sunday 19 December 2010 - the big freeze continues!!

Air Asia X Airbus A340-313X 9M-XAC which diverted into BHX
from Stansted on Saturday evening spent the day parked up on
Stand 85C - the aircraft is in an "Oakland Raiders" logo jet scheme

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Emirates Boeing 777-31HER A6-EBT finally made it to BHX having

been diverted to Newcastle on Saturday joining the PIA Boeing 777
and Mahan Air Airbus A310 that had been stranded overnight....
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.... the Emirates "10th anniversary" flight finally departing
to Dubai just over 24 hours late!!
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Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-DPW operated their lunchtime service
to Dublin - the aircraft wears additional "Lleida" titles advertising
this new airport in the Catalonia region of Spain
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Thomson Boeing 737-36N G-THOL positioned in to operate
their first ski season IT flight to Toulouse
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There were extensive delays during the day as aircraft waited to
be deiced - it had been -14c overnight with everything frozen
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RAF Avia Antonov 26B YL-RAE was a lunchtime arrival doing
a tour of the airport due to the limited number of taxiways that
were open/ice free....
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.... while Cello Avro Business Jet G-RAJJ visited the 80's stands

for deicing before departing to Aberdeen
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Netjets Hawker 800XP CS-DRF was a visitor to a snowy Elmdon apron
.

.... while Citation XLS D-CLLL made a brief visit.. Photo: Ron Kosys