Birmingham Airport Photo Blog: November 2008

Sunday 30 November 2008 - Challenger S5-ADB spends day parked on the Elmdon apron

Challenger S5-ADB - which had arrived in the fog on Saturday

morning spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron
.

Cessna 525 CitationJet D-IKOP - another Saturday arrival -
also remained parked on the Elmdon apron

Friday 28 November 2008 - Netjets Boeing BBJ N127QS off to Paris Le Bourget for the day

NetJets Boeing BBJ N127QS was a morning departure to Paris

Le Bourget returning to BHX again in the early evening

The diversion of a RAF Tristar from Brize Norton resulted in

visits by two RAF BAe 125 CC3's ZD704....
.

.... and ZE396 which both made a rapid turnround at BHX
.

RAF Islander CC2 ZF537 was another afternoon visitor
to the Elmdon apron....
.

.... where RAF Tristar KC1 ZD948 spent most of the afternoon
waiting for the fog at Brize Norton to lift
.

VLM Fokker 50 OO-VLS was a lunchtime arrival operating a
charter flight from Amsterdam before positioning to Rotterdam

Thursday 27 November 2008 - Air Nostrum Canadair CRJ 900 EC-JNB off to Alicante

Air Nostrum/Iberia Regional Canadair CRJ 900 EC-JNB

positioned in from Valencia to operate a charter flight to

Alicante - this was the only Air Nostrum CR9 that was

not delivered via flybe at BHX!
.

Lear Jet 45 G-ZXZX - which had arrived on Wednesday

evening - was a morning departure ....
.

.... while NetJets Boeing BBJ N127QS which had also returned on

Wednesday evening spent the day parked on the Elmdon Apron

bmibaby restructure Birmingham based operation for Summer 2009 - and drop 9 routes

bmibaby (WW) have announced that they are restructuring their
Birmingham operation from the start of the summer 2009 schedules
.
Previously operated seasonal routes to Bordeaux, Jersey, Krakow,
Lisbon, Madrid, Marseilles, Milan Bergamo and Rome Fiumicino
and Warsaw will not be operated this year
.
As a result of these changes the bmibaby BHX based fleet for
summer 2009 will now be 5 Boeing 737 aircraft compared with
the 8 operated from BHX during 2008
.

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Tuesday 25 November 2008 - RAF BAe 146 ZE701 visits the Elmdon apron

RAF BAe 146 CC2 ZE701 was a lunchtime visitor to the

Elmdon apron later departing to Brize Norton
.

Monarch Airbus A320 G-MRJK operated their service from

Faro - the aircraft wears "flymonarch.com" titles
.

Emirates used recently delivered Boeing 777-300ER A6-ECG
on their lunchtime service to Dubai - its first visit to BHX
.

Eurowings Canadair CRJ 700 D-ACSC operated the early
afternoon Lufthansa service from Dusseldorf

Monday 24 November 2008 - Airbus A321 G-OZBR now in full Monarch colours

Monarch Airbus A321 G-OZBR – which had spent the summer

operating in the basic scheme of (US airline) Spirit – positioned

to BHX from Norwich last Wednesday, 19 November 2008, after

repainting into the full Monarch scheme. As part of this it has

gained new style “Monarch.co.uk” titles on the rear fuselage in

place of “flymonarch.com”

NetJets Boeing BBJ N127QS - which together with BBJ N129QS

has been standing in for Airbus A340 HZ-124 - departed to the

Middle East
.

Scot Airways Dornier 328 G-BWWT which is in CityJet

colours was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron
.

KLM Boeing 737-300 PH-BTE operated their mid morning
service to Amsterdam

October 2008 passenger figures

Birmingham International Airport handled 844,315 passengers

during October 2008 a decrease of 0.7% over the previous year

Despite passenger numbers remaining broadly flat month
-on-month, this was a far better outcome than experienced
at most other UK airports in October. Paul Kehoe,
Birmingham Airport's Chief Executive Officer, explains:

"This year has been an exciting one for Birmingham Airport
with a host of new airline announcements and a growing
network of routes. With passenger numbers within 0.7% of
the same month last year, October shows that we are not
immune to the current economic slowdown and that the
coming year will be a challenging one"

.
"The UK recessional pressures have clearly exerted an affect
on the Airport but with the latest statistics indicating an
average fall in passenger numbers across all UK airports of
around 6% last month, Birmingham continues to perform well"

.
Despite the overall reduction, growth was achieved on flights
to the EU (+9.9%) and non-EU (+2.7%), while the Irish
Republic saw an increase of 15.4% with Ryanair, among
others, performing particularly strongly

.
Scheduled routes that experienced growth included:
Bratislava (+141.1%), Inverness (+54.9%), Larnaca (+44.6%),

Dundee (+25%), Milan (+20.1%), Düsseldorf (+18.2%),

Waterford (+12.9%), Dubai (+9.4%), Hanover (+9.3%),

Stuttgart (+7.9%), Faro (+6.1%), Amsterdam (+5.9%),

Paris (+3.3%), Zurich (+3.2%), Isle of Man (+2.5%),

Alicante (+2.5%), Tenerife (+2.4%), Mahon (+2.2%)

and Palma (+1.6%)

.
Charter traffic which experienced growth included:

Egypt (+19.3%), Tunisia (+17.2%), Bulgaria (+3.2%),

Italy (+0.7%) and Morocco (+0.6%)

.
Scheduled traffic accounted for 75.2% of the total

passenger traffic in October whilst charter passengers

made up the remaining 24.8%
.

Monday 24 November 2008

Sunday 23 November 2008 - Grossman Dornier 328JET OE-HTJ visit the Elmdon apron

Grossmann Dornier 328JET OE-HTJ was a morning visitor
to the Elmdon apron departing on a charter to Paris

Saturday 22 November 2008 - Lufthansa Canadair CRJ200 D-ACHA operates their flight to Munich

Lufthansa Regional Canadair CRJ 200 D-ACHA operated
their mid morning service to Munich

Air Slovakia Boeing 737-300 OM-ASD operated their weekly
service to Bratislava in place of the usual Boeing 757

Cessna 525 Citation Jet G-SFCJ was a morning arrival
parking up on the Elmdon apron

Friday 21 November 2008 - Turkmenistan Boeing 757 EZ-A011 now in new "green" colours

Turkmenistan Boeing 757-22K EZ-A011 now wears

their new "green" colour scheme

VLM Fokker 50 OO-VLJ departed back to Lyon followed by....
.

.... Airlinair ATR 72 F-GVZF which departed to Paris CDG
.

Netjets Gulfstream G450 N405QS was an afternoon visitor
to the Elmdon apron
.

Blue Line M83 F-GLMU was a morning departure
operating a charter flight to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen

Thursday 20 November 2008 - Airlinair ATR 72 F-GVZF operates charter from Paris CDG

Airlinair ATR 72 F-GVZF operated a charter flight from
Paris CDG - the aircraft also wears Air France titles

VLM Fokker 50 OO-VLJ operated a charter flight from Lyon
.

Monarch Airbus A330-200 G-SMAN operated a charter

flight from Calgary, Canada, before positioning to Gatwick

Titan Boeing 737-300QC G-POWC operated a return charter

flight from Granada, Spain, before positioning to Stansted

BAEG Autumn Update and BAESS Briefing

See - http://baeg.blogspot.com/ for more information!

Birmingham Aviation Enthusiasts Group

Tuesday 18 November 2008 - PIA Boeing 777 AP-BHW operates their service from Islambad

PIA Boeing 777-300ER AP-BHW operated their service from
Islamabad - the aircraft wears the Lahore "Garden of Mughal"
special tail scheme

Cessna 303 G-MILO which had arrived on Friday evening departed

Sunday 16 November 2008 - RAF Rescue Sea King ZH545 visits the Elmdon apron

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR.3A ZH545 was a morning arrival

on the Elmdon apron spending most of the day parked at BHX

Falcon 900EX N435T was a morning arrival parking

on the Elmdon apron
.

Thomsonfly Boeing 737-300 G-THOI which had arrived

on Friday evening operated a charter flight to Malaga

Saturday 15 November 2008 - Air Slovakia Boeing 737 OM-ASE flying with bellview titles

Air Slovakia used Boeing 737-306 OM-ASE in place of the usual
Boeing 757 on their weekly service to Bratislava which connects
onto Amritsar, India. The aircraft currently wears the titles and
tail scheme of Nigerian airline Bellview

Challenger 300 M-NEWT was a morning arrival