Saturday 9 June 2012 - Air Italy Boeing 767-23BER I-AIGI flying for Monarch to Palma

Air Italy Boeing 767-23BER I-AIGI positioned in from Gatwick
to fly for Monarch operating their morning service to Palma....
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.... on its return it operated their afternoon service to Las Palmas
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLA operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - this is the only CRJ
1000 in Brit Air, as opposed to Air France, colours

Monday 30 July 2012 - Alitalia Airbus A320 EI-DTL makes its first visit to BHX

Alitalia Airbus A320-216 EI-DTL operated a student
charter flight to Rome - its first visit to BHX - while....
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.... Air Explore Boeing 737-436 OM-CEX operated the
second Alitalia student charter of the day from Rome
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLD operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX and
bringing to an end 61 consecutive daily visits by F-HMLA
on this service!

Monday 18 June 2012 - Emirates Boeing 777 A6-EGQ makes its first visit to BHX

Emirates Boeing 777-31HER A6-EGQ operated their
evening service from Dubai - its first visit to BHX
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLA operated
the evening Air France service from Paris CDG
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Challenger 300 N360PA was an early evening arrival

Tuesday 29 May 2012 - Hawker 800XP M-YCEF visits the Elmdon apron

Hawker 800XP M-YCEF was a lunchtime arrival
from the Isle of Man.... Photo: Mike Hollick
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.... wearing an interesting tail scheme!
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Netjets Falcon 2000EX CS-DLH was an afternoon visitor
Photo: Mike Hollick
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLN operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX
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Swiss Airbus A320-214 HB-IJH operated their evening

service from Zurich in place of the usual Avro RJ100

Monday 21 May 2012 - Challenger CN-IAM departs to Goose Bay, Canada

Challenger 604 CN-IAM spent the morning parked up
on the Elmdon apron.... Photo: Mike Hollick
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.... before departing to Goose Bay, Canada, in the early evening
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TAG Aviation Challenger 850 G-SHAL which had arrived
on Sunday spent the day parked up Photo: Mike Hollick
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Linxair Citation Excel S5-BDG and....
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.... Citation Bravo G-JBLZ both made brief visits Photos: Mike Hollick
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Diamond DA-42 Twin Star N160TS and....
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.... Cirrus SR22 N878P were afternoon arrivals Photos: Mike Hollick
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Meridian Aviation Antonov An 12BK UR-DWF was an
afternoon arrival from Graz with a load of priority freight
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLL operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX
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SAS Airbus A319-132 OY-KBT operated their evening
service from Copenhagen
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CityJet Avro RJ85 EI-RJT positioned in from Amsterdam
to operate a charter flight to Faro

Saturday 19 May 2012 - Balkan Holidays Airbus A320 LZ-BHC operates first flight of season

Balkan Holidays Airbus A320-212 LZ-BHC operated the first flight
of the season of their weekly IT service to Bourgas departing via
Bristol - unfortunately the aircraft was in an all white scheme!
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Air France Airbus A320-211 F-GJVB operated their morning
to Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX....
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.... while their evening service was operated by Brit Air
Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLJ also on its first visit to BHX

Monday 23 April 2012 - Gulfstream Galaxy OE-HAS makes brief morning visit

Gulfstream G200 Galaxy OE-HAS made a brief morning visit
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLI operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX

Wednesday 18 April 2012 - Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLA makes its first visit to BHX

Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLA operated the evening Air France
service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX - this is the only CRJ
1000 in Brit Air, as opposed to Air France, colours Photo: Nick Broome
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Air Berlin Airbus A319-112 D-ABGP operated their flight to Hannover
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Hawker 800XP EI-WXP was an afternoon visitor.....
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.... while Citation CJ3 D-CEFD was an evening arrival to night stop
Photos: Mike Hollick

Friday 13 April 2012 - British Airways Airbus A321 G-EUXH diverts in from Heathrow

British Airways Airbus A321-231 G-EUXH was a morning visitor
when it diverted in due to landing delays at London Heathrow
while operating flight "BA561" from Milan Linate - its first visit
to BHX - after refuelling it continued its journey to Heathrow
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CityJet Fokker 50 OO-VLM also diverted in due to poor visibility
at London City while operating a flight from Paris Orly
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Air France Airbus A320-211 F-GJVW operated their morning
service to Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX - while....
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.... Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLH operated their evening
service from Paris CDG - also its first visit to BHX
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RAF C17 ZZ173 made to visits to the Elmdon apron - firstly on
a medevac flight and then when it diverted back to BHX due
to poor visibility at Brize Norton

Monday 2 April 2012 - Air Harrods Sikorsky S-76C G-WIWI visits the Elmdon apron

Air Harrods Sikorsky S 76C G-WIWI was an afternoon
visitor to the Elmdon apron Photo: Mike Hollick
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Former Olympic Airlines ATR 72-202 SX-BIG was moved from
Hangar 2 to Hangar 1 during the afternoon Photo: Mike Hollick
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLE operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX
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bmi Airbus A319-131 G-DBCJ positioned in from Heathrow
to replace a "tech" Airbus A320 G-MIDO and operate the
evening Lufthansa service to Frankfurt

Friday 23 March 2012 - Brit Air Canadair CRJ 100 F-GRJQ operates final Lyon service

Brit Air Canadair CRJ 100ER F-GRJU operated the final
Air France service from Lyon bringing to an end a service
that had started back in September 2007
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Air Contractors ATR 72-202F EI-FXI operated their final FedEx
Feeder service from Paris CDG before it becomes a Boeing 757F
operation on Monday 26 March 2012.... Photo: Ron Kosys
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.... before positioning out to Edinburgh
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Farnair ATR 72-201F HB-AFG which had arrived in the early hours
spent the day parked up on the Elmdon apron Photo: Ron Kosys
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flybe Dash 8Q-402 G-ECOI - the second aircraft to be leased
to Brussels Airlines - made a short appearance outside as it
was moved from Hangar 2 to Hangar 1 Photo: Mike Hollick
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Ryanair were also preparing for the start of the summer schedules
with a number of early morning departures as their parked aircraft
positioned out - Boeing 737-8AS EI-EVH left for Gerona

Sunday 11 March 2012 - easyJet Airbus A320 G-EZTX makes first visit to BHX

easyJet Airbus A320-214 G-EZTX operated their flight to Grenoble
in place of the usual Airbus A319 - its first visit to BHX....
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.... while Airbus A319-111 G-EZGM operated the easyJet flight
to Geneva - another first visit to BHX!
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flybe Dash 8Q-402 G-JEDK has recently been repainted "all white"
at East Midlands but remains it service departing here to Guernsey
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 100ER F-GRJU has suffered a similar fate!
- Air France end their Lyon service on Friday 23 March 2012
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Citation CJ2 OE-FPS was a morning arrival parking up
to night stop on the Elmdon apron....
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.... while Agusta A-109A G-IWRB made a brief afternoon visit