Tuesday 15 November 2016 - WOW Air Airbus A330 TF-WOW departs back to Reykjavik Keflavik

WOW Air Airbus A330-343 TF-WOW which had arrived on Monday operating their
annual staff mystery trip spent the day parked up on Stand 86C.... Photo: Brett Allen

.... before departing back to Reykjavik Keflavik during the evening

Monarch Airbus A320-214 G-ZBAU which had diverted in with a technical problem
on Monday morning positioned back to Manchester

Blue Air Boeing 737-46N YR-BAE operated their flight to Bucharest

SAS Airbus A320-232 OY-KAN operated their morning service to Copenhagen

Gulfstream IV N726RW which had arrived on Monday evening spent the day parked up

Citation CJ1 D-ITAN and....

.... Beechjet 400A N709EL both made brief afternoon visits

RVL Cessna 406 Caravan G-RVLW was an early morning arrival parking up to night stop

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Friday 11 November 2016 - Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF continues its delivery flight to India

Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF spent the day parked up on Stand 72....

.... before continuing its delivery flight to Delhi via Sharjah - it had arrived from
Boeing Field, Seattle, via Toronto on Thursday morning Photos: Brett Allen

Vueling Airbus A320-232 EC-LQM operated their flight to Barcelona

FedEx Boeing 757-28AF N913FD went "tech" on arrival from Paris CDG
and as a result spent the day parked up on the Elmdon apron

BDAviation/Zimex ATR 72-202 HB-ALM was an afternoon departure to Maastricht

Gulfstream 650 EI-JSK which had arrived on Thursday evening spent the day parked up

Air Alliance Express Learjet 35A D-CEXP was a morning departure with....

.... Air Alliance Express Learjet 35A D-CONE arriving to join their based fleet

Xclusive Jet Citation II G-CGOA made a brief morning visit

Wijet Mustang G-FBKH was an afternoon departure to Blackbushe
- it had arrived as F-HOUR and had been re registered at BHX

Eurocopter Ecureuil II G-OLCP was a morning visitor

NPAS Eurocopter EC 135 T2+ G-POLD was an afternoon arrival

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Thursday 10 November 2016 - Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF arrives on its delivery flight

Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF was an early morning arrival from Toronto
on its delivery flight from Seattle to India parking up on Stand 72 to night stop....

.... it has an image of the Taj Mahal on the starboard side of the tail Photos: Chris Evans

.... the long view of Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF from the Elmdon side of the airport

TUI/Thomson Boeing 737-8K5 G-TAWS was a morning departure to Tenerife

BDAviation Short 360-300 D-CCAS spent the morning parked up before departing to Frankfurt

Fleet Air International Saab 340A HA-TVJ spent the day parked up before departing

A busy day for biz jets - Gulfstream 450 N192NC and....

Gulfstream IV N842PA both arrived from Luton to park up and night stop

SPX Corporation Global 5000 N15PX which had arrived on Wednesday afternoon....

.... spent the morning parked up before departing to Charlotte, North Carolina

Mustang N759SB spent the day parked up before departing

RVL Cessna 406 Caravan G-RVLX was an afternoon departure to East Midlands

Bell Jet Ranger II G-WIZZ made a brief lunchtime visit to the Elmdon Apron

NPAS Eurocopter EC 135 T2+ G-POLD is now the BHX based Police helicopter
having arrived from Boreham, Essex, on Tuesday morning

Sunshine after the rain! - a flybe Dash 8 climbs through a rainbow....

.... which rises out of the airport terminal site

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Due Birmingham Thursday 10 November 2016 on its delivery - Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF

Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF at Boeing Field awaiting delivery

Air India Express Boeing 737-86N VT-GHF is planned to be delivered via Birmingham

this coming Thursday/Friday - please see below for the provisional timings

   

The aircraft flew from Boeing Field to Toronto last night/Tuesday so looking

good for a Thursday morning arrival into Birmingham 

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2016 

0610/ N/S AI 164 73H from Boeing Field via Toronto
- delivery flight - Air India Express

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2016

  N/S /2200 AI 164 73H to Delhi via Sharjah
- delivery flight - Air India Express

Schedule/timings subject to change!!

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Monday 7 November 2016 - UPS reroute their overnight parcel operation to Birmingham Airport

UPS moved their overnight parcel operation from East Midlands to Birmingham on Sunday
night/Monday morning due to the latter airport's weekend runway closure for resurfacing....

.... 4 flights were rerouted resulting in three Boeing 767s being parked on the Elmdon apron
at BHX at the same time in the early hours of Monday morning

.... the parcel containers were off loaded from the aircraft and transferred onto a fleet of trucks
to be taken to/from the UPS freight terminal at East Midlands Airport - aircraft involved were....

UPS Boeing 767-34AFER N359UP which operated from/to Cologne - its first visit to BHX....

Star Air Boeing 767-219F OY-SRN which arrived from Cologne before continuing onto Belfast....

Euro Atlantic Cargo Boeing 767-375F CS-TLZ, which is on lease to Star Air, and which
arrived from Cologne before continuing onto Edinburgh - its first visit to BHX - and....

UPS Boeing 767-34AFER N315UP which operated from/to Cologne - its first visit to BHX

Sunday 6 November 2016 - Thomson Boeing 737-8K5 G-TAWS now flying with TUI titles

Thomson Boeing 737-8K5 G-TAWS is now wearing billboard TUI titles with TUI.COM on the engines....

.... it has previously been announced that Thomson will be changing its name to TUI - its parent company -
and this is the first Boeing 737 to be rebranded - it has "Operated by Thomson Airways" titles by the doors

.... it arrived from Norwich on Friday evening and departed to Paphos - its first service wearing the new titles

More photos later

Lufthansa withdaw the Boeing 737 from service - final flight to Birmingham on Saturday 29 October 2016

Boeing 737 D-ABEK wears a special "Fanhansa" colour scheme

Lufthansa come to the end of an era this weekend when they plan

to withdraw their final 6 Boeing 737-300s from service 

The final Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 flight into Frankfurt is planned

for the evening of Saturday 29 October 2016 and we now have just

two more Boeing 737 flights planned into Birmingham -

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2016

1700/1745 LH956/957 733 from/to Frankfurt
- planned aircraft allocation - Lufthansa

SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 2016
   
1235/1320 LH954/955 733 from/to Frankfurt
- final planned Boeing 737 flight to BHX - Lufthansa

Lufthansa - who are using the hash tag #ThankYou737 to mark the

retirement - have operated the Boeing 737 - -100/200/300/400/500 -

since 1968 when they were the first operator of the type

 #ThankYou737

Friday 28 October 2016