Tuesday 12 May 2009 - Air Finland Boeing 757 OH-AFJ operates a charter flight from Larnaca

Air Finland Boeing 757-28A OH-AFJ operated a charter

flight from Larnaca parking up on the 80's stands

.

Eurowings Canadair CRJ 200ER D-ACRD operated the early

morning Lufthansa service to Dusseldorf
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VLM Fokker 50 OO-VLK operated a day stopping
charter flight from Rotterdam
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Air Slovakia Boeing 737-306 OM-ASD which was formerly

with KLM as PH-BDG operated their flight to Bratislava

Tuesday 14 April 2009 - Turkmenistan Boeing 767 EZ-A700 on the way to the USA!!

Turkmenistan Boeing 767-300 EZ-A700 prepares to depart for

Lakeland/Kelly AFB outside San Antonio in Texas, USA....

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.... it had earlier arrived from Ashkabad, Turkmenistan, and is a

VIP/Goverment aircraft like Boeing 737-700 EZ-A007 which had

passed through BHX in the opposite direction at the start of April -

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http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.com/2009/04/wednesday-1-april-2009.html

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Air Slovakia Boeing 757 OM-ASG operated their service from

Amritsar via Bratislava before positioning out to Paris CDG
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Monarch Airbus A321 G-OZBT positioned in from Manchester
to operate a service to Palma - its first visit to BHX
. Regional Fokker 100 F-GPXL operated the early morning
Air France service from/to Paris CDG in place of the usual
CityJet Avro RJ 85 - its second visit to BHX in a week

Historic BHX - Saturday 8 January 2005

Tyrolean Dash 8-402Q OE-LGB operated the first flight of a new weekly ski IT flight to Bolzano in Italy

First Choice Airbus A321-211 G-OOAE operated the first flight of their weekly ski IT flight to Innsbruck

SAS MD 87 LN-ROZ operated their morning scheduled service to Copenhagen

Aer Arann ATR 72-202 EI-REE operated their flight to Cork

Crossair Embraer 145LU HB-JAL operated the lunchtime Swiss service to Zurich

- it wears additional "400th Embraer 145" titles

bmibaby Boeing 737-3L9 G-OGBE operated their new service to Prague

Thomas Cook Boeing 757-28A G-JMCF operated their weekly ski IT flight to Lyon

flybe Dash 8-402Q G-JECE was an afternoon departure to Edinburgh

Air Slovakia Boeing 757-236 OM-DGK was damaged during the overnight gales which lifted up the aircraft

and turned it through 90 degrees with a set of passenger boarding steps ending up under the aircraft

Tuesday 24 March 2009 - ExecuJet Learjet 45 OY-LJJ visits the Elmdon apron

ExecuJet Scandinavia Lear Jet 45 OY-LJJ was a morning arrival

on the Elmdon apron - the aircraft is still in Lear Jet house colours

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For the second week running Air Slovakia Boeing 737-300 OM-ASF

operated their return service from Bratislava (and Amritsar) - the

aircraft wears the titles and tail insignia of Nigerian airline Bellview

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Aer Lingus Airbus A321 EI-CPC operated their early morning

service from/to Dublin in place of the usual Airbus A320
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Ryanair Boeing 737-800 EI-DLN wears additional "Bye Bye Baby" titles
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Citation Sovereign OE-GMM was afternoon arrival on the Elmdon apron

Tuesday 17 March 2009 - Air Slovakia Boeing 737 OM-ASF flying with Bellview titles

Air Slovakia Boeing 737-300 OM-ASF operated their return

connecting service from Bratislava (and Amritsar) - the aircraft

wears the titles and tail insignia of Nigerian airline Bellview

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Eastern Saab 2000 G-CDEA was a morning visitor to the Elmdon

apron before operating a charter flight to Newcastle
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Goodyear Tire Challenger 601 N20G was a lunchtime arrival....
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.... while Lear Jet 60 N80DX which was a morning arrival spent the

day parked on the Elmdon apron before departing to Dublin

Monday 16 March 2009 - Twinjet Airbus A319CJ G-NMAK spends day parked up

Twinjet Airbus A319CJ G-NMAK was repositioned to face north on its

normal parking spot over the weekend due to expected strong winds

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Air Slovakia Boeing 757-28A OM-ASG operated the outward

sector of their weekly service to Amritsar via Bratislava
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Eastern Jetstream 41 G-MAJK operated their morning service

to Newcastle - the aircraft is still in their old colour scheme
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RAF Agusta A109 ZR322 was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

Tuesday 24 February 2009 - Air Slovakia Boeing 757 OM-ASG operates flight from Amritsar

Air Slovakia Boeing 757 OM-ASG operated the return sector of their

weekly service from Amritsar before positioning back to Bratislava

- the aircraft was formerly C-GTDX with Zoom
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Blue Line MD 83 F-GMLK - which had arrived on Monday evening -

departed to Moscow Vnukovo with the Aston Villa team in advance

of the second leg of their UEFA cup tie against CSKA Moscow on

Thursday evening - the aircraft is in a VIP configuration with just

small Blue Line titles and a silver colour scheme

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Friday 6 February 2009 - more snow in the UK! - more diversions to BHX!!

Snow again closed Luton resulting in Bulgaria Air Boeing 737-330

LZ-BOW - which was operating SkyEurope flight "NE 2122" from

Prague - diverting in. It later positioned back to Prague
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Also diverting from Luton was Air Slovakia Boeing 737-3Z9 OM-ASC

which was operating SkyEurope flight "NE 120" from Bratislava
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Scot Airways Dornier 328-110 G-BZOG was an afternoon visitor to

the Elmdon apron arriving with the Newcastle United FC team for
their match against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday afternoon

Monday 2 February 2009 - winter comes to the UK! - diversions come to BHX!!

Significant snow falls in the south east on Sunday evening

resulted in a large number of diversions to BHX from

Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and London City and

the bad weather continued into Monday....
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.... the result was an airport packed with overnight diversions!
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Good use was made of the former cross runway - now Taxiway

Tango - and despite the number of earlier diversion they kept

coming during Monday although BHX had to close a number

of times during the day for snow clearance
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Wizz Air Airbus A320-232 LZ-WZB was operating flight "W6 901"

from Sofia to Luton when it diverted in. It had another go to get
into Luton in the early afternoon only to divert back to BHX again!
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British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVW was operating flight
"BA 118" from Bangalore when it diverted in from Heathrow
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Wizz Air Airbus A320-232 HA-LPI was operating flight "W6 201"
from Budapest to Luton later positioning direct back to Budapest
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The snow ploughs prepare for another run down the runway!
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Air Slovakia Boeing 737-3Z9 OM-ASC was operating SkyEurope
flight "NE 120" from Bratislava to Luton when it diverted in
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Boeing 737-7AH BBJ N888TY which had been parked on the
Elmdon apron since it arrived from the US on Saturday evening
departed to Zurich in the middle of a blizzard!

Saturday 17 January 2009 - Air Slovakia Boeing 757 OM-ASA operates their flight from Amritsar

Air Slovakia Boeing 757-236 OM-ASA was an early morning

arrival operating their flight from Bratislava and Amritsar

Saturday 13 December 2008 - Air Slovakia Boeing 737 OM-ASC flying with Bellview titles

Air Slovakia Boeing 737-300 OM-ASC operated their weekly

service from Bratislava - the aircraft wore the titles and tail

scheme of Nigerian airline Bellview

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Blue Line M83 F-GLMU positioned in from Paris CDG to

operate a charter to Perpignan taking Leicester there for

their Heineken Cup Rugby match on Sunday