Friday 13 June 2008 - MyAir Airbus A320-232 EC-JIB flying for LTE in VW Tiguan colours!!

LTE used Airbus A320-232 EC-JIB on their weekly IT flight from

Tenerife - the aircraft is in logo jet scheme advertising the new

VW Tiguan and still wears MyAir titles and tail scheme

from its recent lease to that operator
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. Swiss used Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPH on their lunchtime
service from Zurich in place of the usual Avro RJ 100 - the

aircraft is in the "Star Alliance" scheme
. Spanair MD 83 EC-GGV operated their weekly IT flight to Ibiza

Tuesday 22 April 2008 - Air Comet Airbus A320 EC-KBM diverts to BHX

Air Comet Airbus A320 EC-KBM diverted into BHX due to a

runway closure at Gatwick - after refueling it departed off

Runway 15 back to Gatwick
.Swiss used Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPH on their lunchtime

service from Zurich in place of the usual Avro RJ 100 - the aircraft is in Star Alliance colours
.

. Danish Air Transport ATR 72 OY-RUB operated a charter flight
from Billund with the aircraft parking up on the Elmdon apron
.Royal Air Force Tristar C2 ZE705 operated a medivac flight
before positioning out to RAF Brize Norton

Monday 17 September 2012 - Falcon N615MS spends day parked on the Elmdon apron

Falcon 900 N615MS which had arrived on Sunday evening on
its first visit to BHX spent the day parked up Photo: Mike Hollick

Falcon 900B N900MG was an afternoon arrival
from Farmingdale, New York State, in the USA

Citation CJ3 D-CJAK which had arrived on Sunday
was a morning departure Photo: Mike Hollick

Linxair Citation Excel S5-BDG made a brief evening visit

Robinson R-44 G-WALI was a day stopping visitor Photo: Mike Hollick

OLT Express Fokker 100 D-AGPH operated the lunchtime
Swiss service to Zurich - it is in "Star Alliance" colours....

.... with OLT Express titles by the front passenger door
- the aircraft was previously operated by Contact Air who
were taken over by OLT Express on 1 September 2012

Sunday 26 August 2012 - Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPK flying for Swiss

Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPK which is in "Star Alliance"
colours operated the morning Swiss flight to Zurich
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Jet Fly Citation XLS OE-GGG spent the day parked up
.

Falcon 7X N85DN which is the aircraft used by Aston Villa
owner Randy Lerner was an afternoon arrival
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Piper Arrow III G-TOLL was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

Thursday 7 June 2012 - Air Italy Boeing 737 EI-EOJ flying for Monarch to Larnaca

Air Italy Boeing 737-8BK EI-EOJ positioned in from Milan to operate
the afternoon Monarch service to Larnaca - its first visit to BHX
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Titan Boeing 737-33AQC G-POWC operated the morning Monarch
service to Rome before positioning back to Stansted
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Danish Air Transport ATR 72-201 OY-RUD arrived from Copenhagen
Roskilde on Wednesday departed and was followed out by....
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.... Jet Time Boeing 737-3L9 OY-JTE which returned to Billund
.

Thomas Cook Airbus A321-211 G-TCDA was one of a number of
aircraft that dropped into refuel after earlier fuel contamination
problems at Manchester Airport - it wears additional "Egypt" titles
.

Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPK operated the morning Swiss
flight to Zurich - the aircraft is in "Star Alliance" colours and
was on its first visit to BHX
.

Tyrolean Jet Service Dornier 328JET OE-HTJ was morning arrival
parking up to night stop on the Elmdon apron Photo: Mike Hollick
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Anglian Flight Centres Cessna 172 G-BENK was an afternoon visitor
Photo: Mike Hollick

Saturday 16 July 2011 - Hangar8 Hawker 4000 G-PROO visits a wet Elmdon apron

Hangar8 Hawker 4000 G-PROO positioned in to operate a flight
to Toulon - this was only the second visit of a Hawker 4000 to BHX
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Blue Panorama Boeing 757-231 EI-DNA was a lunchtime arrival
operating the next in a series of student charters from Rome
.

Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AGPH operated the evening Swiss service
from Zurich in place of the usual Helvetic aircraft - the aircraft is in
the "Star Alliance" scheme
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Farnair Europe ATR 42-320 HB-AFF was an early arrival on a very
wet morning when its diverted in from Kemble while operating a
charter from Basle for the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford

Friday 25 March 2011 - flybe Dash 8 G-JEDP now wears "Go Skills City Guilds" titles

flybe Dash 8Q-400 G-JEDP which is in the "low cost" scheme

now wears additional "Go Skills City Guilds" titles on the nose

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Lufthansa Regional Embraer 195LR D-AEBF operated their

afternoon service from Munich - its first visit to BHX

.

Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AFKC operated their final service

to Dusseldorf before this Lufthansa flight reverts to a Eurowings

Canadair CRJ 900 operation for the summer schedules

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KLM cityhopper Fokker 100 PH-OFN operated their morning

service to Amsterdam in place of the usual Fokker 70

.

Challenger 601 N601DS which had arrived on Tuesday

was an early morning departure to Quebec, Canada

Wednesday 23 March 2011 - Thomson Boeing 737 G-THOO operates IT flight from Monastir

Thomson Boeing 737-33V G-THOO operated their

weekly IT flight from Monastir

.Monarch Airbus A320-214 G-OZBK was a morning

departure to Tenerife

.Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AFKB operated the morning Lufthansa

service to Dusseldorf - the aircraft is in the "Star Alliance" scheme

.

Via Tauro Metro II EC-JIP which was an early morning arrival

spending the day parked up on the Elmdon apron

Winter 2010/11 - The end is nigh!!

Before we start looking at summer 2011 in detail - and now

we are in the final week of winter - it maybe helpful to note

the airline/types that currently operate to BHX but will not

be regular visitors after next weekend -

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Contact Air - their final Fokker 100 flight is on Friday- there

is no service on Saturday this week - with the morning

Lufthansa Dusseldorf service reverting to a Eurowings

Canadair CRJ 900 from next Monday

.

easyJet - Friday should see their final Boeing 737-700

operated service to BHX - from next weekend all

flights will be operated by Airbus A319's

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Lufthansa CityLine - while the final afternoon Cityline

Embraer 195 flight is on Saturday they will now be back

next Monday operating the mid morning service which

operates on Mondayto Friday - the other Munich

services being operated by Canadair CRJ 900's

.

Monarch - as is usual the based Airbus A320 will be replaced

by an A321 from the start of the summer schedules on Sunday

.

As always details interesting movements, one off charters
and planned aircraft allocations will appear at -
.
http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.com/p/due-bhx.html

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Tuesday 22 March 2011

Saturday 19 March 2011 - RAF Rescue Sea King XZ596 drops in for fuel

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR3 XZ596 was a morning visitor to the

Elmdon apron when it dropped in for fuel after visiting the Queen

Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham - it wears additional "1941-2011

RAF SAR 70 - 70 years of life saving" titles.. Photo: Mark Sheen

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Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-DYY operated their morning service
from Dublin - it wears additional "Comunitat Valenciana" titles
.
Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AFKD operated the morning
Lufthansa service from Dusseldorf
.
Global Express 5000 HB-JIH was a morning visitor.. Photo: Mark Sheen
.
Super King Air G-CGAW was an afternoon arrival parking
up on the Elmdon apron to nightstop

Monday 14 March 2011 - Air Malta Airbus A319 9H-AEM operates their flight from Malta

Air Malta Airbus A319-111 9H-AEM operated their flight from Malta

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City Airline Embraer 145MP SE-RIA operated their morning

service to Gothenburg
.

Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AFKE operated the morning

Lufthansa service to Dusseldorf
.

Gulfstream 550 EI-GDL was a morning arrival for

the Cheltenham Gold Cup week
.

RAF Islander CC2B ZH537 was a late afternoon visitor

to the Elmdon apron