World Duty Free prepares for Divali

Traditional dancers and dhol players were in the World Duty Free
store at Birmingham Airport on Friday 21 October 2011 as they
prepared for Divali....
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.... and the half term holiday week
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Friday 21 October 2011

See the dancers at World Duty Free!!

Friday 21 October 2011 - Tor Air Boeing 737 SP-HAA off to Avignon for the rugby!!

Tor Air Boeing 737-322 SP-HAA positioned in from Glasgow
to operate a charter to Avignon taking England fans to the Rugby
League friendly match against France. The aircraft is leased from
Small Planet Airlines Poland and was on its first visit to BHX
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Citation CJ1 F-HAJD was a morning arrival spending the day
parked up on the Elmdon apron
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Eurojet Citation Bravo G-FCDB departed to Doncaster where it will be
repainted and should return in due course re registered as G-EHGW
Photo: Ron Kosys

bmibaby resumes service to Prague - flights to operate on year round basis in 2012

bmibaby have resumed their service to Prague which will
again be operated on a year round basis in 2012
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The first flight - WW 1081 - departed Birmingham at 1745
on Friday 21 October 2011 - for winter 2011/12 flights will
operate four days a week on Monday/Thursday/Friday/Sunday
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www.bmibaby.com
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Friday 21 October 2011

Thursday 20 October 2011 - Comlux Falcon 900EX 9H-GMT makes first visit to BHX

Comlux Falcon 900EX 9H-GMT which arrived on Wednesday
evening on its first visit to BHX....
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.... spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron Photos: Ron Kosys
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KLM cityhopper Fokker 100 PH-OFL operated their lunchtime
service to Amsterdam in place of the usual Embraer 190

Wednesday 19 October 2011 - Birmingham City off to Ostend on Tor Air Boeing 737 ES-LBD

Tor Air Boeing 737-35B ES-LBD which is leased from Small Planet
Airlines Estonia positioned in from Luton to take Birmingham City FC
/the Blues to Ostend for their UEFA "Europa League" match against
Club Brugge KV on Thursday evening while....
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.... their Boeing 737-4Q8 SE-RJA which had arrived overnight
from Rhodes positioned out to Stockholm
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Titan Boeing 757-256 G-ZAPX which had positioned in
on Tuesday departed operating a charter flight to Munich
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Roger Penske Racing Gulfstream 450 N500RP made a brief
afternoon refuelling stop en-route back to the US....
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.... while Netjets Hawker 800XP CS-DRY was a morning arrival
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.... and King Air N104AJ spent the day parked up before
departing in the early evening Photos: Ron Kosys

Tuesday 18 October 2011 - Sky Service Citation OO-FYS visits the Elmdon apron

Sky Service Citation CJ3 OO-FYS was an evening arrival on
the Elmdon apron - it wears "Forest Wings" titles on the tail....
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.... while Hangar8 Citation CJ2 G-MROO was a morning visitor
Photo: Mike Hollick
.Citation CJ3 N403ND was a day stopping visitor....
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.... while Flight Calibration Services Navajo Chieftain G-FCSL was
a morning arrival before checking the Runway 33 ILS Photos: Ron Kosys
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Air Transat Airbus A310-308 C-GSAT operated their flight to Toronto
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Brussels Airlines Avro RJ85 OO-DJW operated their morning service
- the aircraft still retains the old SN Brussels Airlines colour scheme

Monday 17 October 2011 - Columbia 400 D-EVIG makes first visit of type to BHX

Columbia 400 D-EVIG was a visitor to the Elmdon apron - this
was a first visit of this type of aircraft to BHX Photo: Mike Hollick
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Citation XLS SE-RIL was a day stopping visitor Photo: Mike Hollick
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Brit Air Canadair CRJ 700 F-GRZJ operated the morning
Air France service to Lyon in place of the usual CRJ 100

Sunday 16 October 2011 - British Airways Boeing 767 G-BNWU diverts in from Heathrow

British Airways Boeing 767-336ER G-BNWU was an early morning
arrival when it diverted in while operating flight "BA 092" from
Toronto due to landing delays at Heathrow as result of fog
- after refuelling it continued its journey
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Air Berlin Boeing 737-86J D-ABKT operated their flight
to Paderborn - its first visit to BHX
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Brussels Airlines leased Tyrolean Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGC
operated their afternoon service to Brussels
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Flairjet Embraer Phenom 300 G-MGNE was an afternoon arrival

September 2011 passenger figures

Birmingham Airport handled 904,374 passengers during
September 2011 - a decrease of 1.5% on the previous year
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While scheduled/business services continued to show
some growth leisure travel was again adversely effected
by the current economic conditions

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During September significant growth was achieved on
scheduled flights to destinations such as -
Almeria 94.2%, Fuerteventura 77.1%, Malta 49.4%,
Istanbul 37.7%, Milan 36.7%, Dalaman 34.9%,
Brussels 32.8%, Shannon 31.1% and Hannover 23.1%
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Charter traffic which experience growth included -
Croatia 71.3%, Jamaica 20.4% and Greece 12.8%
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Scheduled traffic accounted for 73.4% of the total
passenger traffic in September whilst charter passengers
made up the remaining 26.6%
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Monday 17 October 2011

Saturday 15 October 2011 - Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170 D-ALIE departs to Munich

Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170LR D-ALIE which had arrived
on Friday positioned out to Munich rather than operate the
previously planned charter flight to Dusseldorf
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Swiss Airbus A319-112 HB-IPT operated their lunchtime service
from Zurich in place of the usual Helvetic Fokker 100
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Monarch Airbus A321-231 G-OZBT which now wears enlarged
billboard titles operated their flight to Dalaman Photo: Ron Kosys
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Robinson R-44 Raven II G-JTSA was a visitor to the Elmdon apron
Photo: Ron Kosys

Friday 14 October 2011 - Monarch Airbus A321 G-OZBT now with "super size" titles!!

Monarch Airbus A321-231 G-OZBT which is the first aircraft
to wear their new style billboard titles has had a makeover....
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.... with the titles being "super sized" compared with its last visit
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.... back in September - see above - "click" here for more information
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CityJet Avro RJ85 EI-RJB which is now in the new style Air France
colour scheme operated their afternoon flight to Paris CDG
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Turkish Airbus A319-132 TC-JLY operated their flight to Istanbul
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Cirrus Airlines Embraer 170LR D-ALIE positioned in from Ljubljana
under an Adria flight number - "JP4000" - in preparation to operate
a charter flight to Dusseldorf on Saturday afternoon
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Flairjet Embraer Phenom 300 G-MGNE was a morning visitor
to a busy Elmdon apron Photo: Ron Kosys
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Agusta A-109S Grand G-CDWY was an afternoon visitor
Photo: Ron Kosys

Thursday 13 October 2011 - Lufthansa Airbus A319 D-AIBG makes first visit to BHX

Lufthansa Airbus A319-112 D-AIBG operated their mid morning
service to Frankfurt - its first visit to BHX
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Eastern Saab 2000 G-CERZ operated a day stopping charter from
Amsterdam - it has small "Jaguar" titles next to the front passenger door
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Air France Airbus A320-211 F-GFKX operated their morning
service to Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX
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Learjet 35A D-CAPO which had arrived on Wednesday operating
an air ambulance flight was a morning departure to Nuremberg
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Jet Aviation Citation Bravo's HB-VMX and HB-VMY were
day stopping visitors parking on the Elmdon apron Photo: Ron Kosys

.Sikorsky S 92 G-LAWX was an evening visitor....
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.... with the passengers for Boeing 737-73T BBJ N500LS