Air India Boeing 787-8 VT-AND the first "dreamliner" to visit Birmingham on Thursday 1 August 2013

Air India Boeing 787-8 "dreamliner" VT-AND was an early evening arrival.... Photo: Ron Kosys

....operating their inaugural flight from Amritsar via Delhi Photo: Robert Jones

.... the first Being 787 "dreamliner" to land at Birmingham Airport

.... touching down on Runway 15

The aircraft rolled passed the Elmdon site.... Photo: Mike Hollick

.... and Birmingham Airport's new Air traffic Control Tower

The "dreamliner" then turned onto Taxiway Charlie....

.... to receive a water cannon salute from Birmingham Airport's

.... new "Striker" Fire fighting vehicles Photos: Laurence Jones

From the other side the salute was a little wetter! - with a strong southerly wind you can see
the wall of water already moving across the apron and the awaiting crowd had a good soaking!

Air India Boeing 787-8 "dreamliner" parked on Stand 42C.... Photo: Mike Hollick

.... at the end of the International Pier

Now the aircraft is on stand Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, leads out the VIP's....

.... with the cake cutting being performed by Sir Albert Bore, Leader of Birmingham City Council,
Rohit Nandan, Chairman of Air India, and Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport

    

The cake!

All this took place at the rear of the aircraft as the baggage was unloaded

Meanwhile the "Dholl Blasters" provided musical entertainment....

.... and certainly kept the media occupied!

No point having "787" painted on the stand if you don't have a "dreamliner" to park on it!

Time now to have a look on board the Boeing 787 "dreamliner"....

.... the cockpit

Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport is interviewed about the new Air India service
and other developments at the airport by Derek Pedley of airteamimages.com ....

.... in the spacious Business Class section of the aircraft

All Economy passengers have a seat back video entertainment system

Time to say goodbye - the return flight was checking in....

.... the inaugural service back to Delhi and onto Amritsar

A big well done and thank you to the team from Birmingham Airport
for organising another very successful launch event!!

Thursday 1 August 2013

Air India increase frequency of service to Amritsar from Birmingham with two flights every Saturday

Air India has increased the frequency of its non-stop service to Amritsar from twice weekly
to three times a week from Saturday 5 May 2018, just a few months after starting the route

The additional nonstop service - which increases Air India's services to Birmingham Airport
to 8 flights a week - is scheduled for Saturday evenings and is in addition to the non-stop
flight from Delhi resulting in two Air India Boeing 787 "dreamliners" on the ground at the
same time. The new Amritsar service now operates every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

Amritsar allows direct access to the major commercial and cultural centre in the heart of
the Punjab and it is home to the Golden Temple. Air India has been a successful partner
at Birmingham Airport for over four years after launching a Delhi flight in August 2013.
This service alone has already carried over 600,000 passengers since its launch

Air India Boeing 787-8 VT-ANX operated the non-stop service from Amritsar
Tom Screen, Acting Aviation Director at Birmingham Airport, said: "Amritsar was a new
route which Air India launched from Birmingham in February this year. It's great to see the
airline increase the frequency of flights within only the first few months of this route starting"

"No other UK airport currently operates a direct service to this destination and so we expected
it to be popular. With over 200,000 British-Indian people travelling to India each year to visit
friends and relatives, and for tourism and business interests, this additional flight shows the
large demand within the region for direct Amritsar services from the Midlands" 

Air India Boeing 787-8 VT-ANL had earlier arrived non-stop from Delhi 
Mr. Pankaj Srivastava, Commercial Director and Board Member of Air India, said: "Air India is
committed to serving the needs of Indian Diaspora settled worldwide and the long-standing
need for direct connectivity between Punjab and Birmingham"

"We are delighted to add one more frequency per week between Amritsar and Birmingham
from Saturday 5 May 2018 making it a three times a week operation. We are confident that
with the strong partnership with Birmingham Airport, we together will be able to grow traffic
flow from the Midlands to India"

The additional Amritsar flight will be operated by the new Boeing 787-8 'Dreamliner' aircraft.
The cabin comprises of 256 seats with 18 lie flat business class seats and 238 in economy class

Air India - summer schedule from Saturday 5 May 2018

1800/2130 AI113/114 788 from/to Amritsar via Delhi
- operates daily except Tuesday and Thursday
1815/1945 AI117/118 788 from/to Delhi via Amritsar
- operates on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday  

www.airindia.com

Saturday 5 May 2018

Sunday 10 December 2017 - Birmingham Airport is closed for much of the day after a heavy snowfall

Birmingham Airport was closed for much of the day after a heavy morning snowfall....

.... covered the runway with snow clearing teams working hard to reopen the airfield

A snowy view of the Elmdon site and the Monarch Aircraft Engineering hangar....

.... looking across the Elmdon apron towards the runway and the Airport Fire Station

As a result of the airport closure many flights were cancelled, delayed or diverted to other airports

Qatar Boeing 787-8 A7-BDD which had earlier diverted to Manchester....

.... returns to a still snow covered BHX

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Saturday 9 December 2017 - Eurowings Airbus A320 OE-IQB operates their inaugural flight to Salzburg

Eurowings Europe Airbus A320-214 OE-IQB operated their inaugural flight to Salzburg - this
new service will operate twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday for the ski season

Helvetic Embraer 190LR HB-JVM operated the morning Swiss service to Zurich

Wizz Air Airbus A321-231 HA-LXE operated their service to Warsaw

easyJet Airbus A320-214 G-EZRD operated their morning service to Belfast International

TUI - formerly Thomson - Boeing 787-8 G-TUIC was a morning departure to Barbados

Eurowings Airbus A320-214 D-AIZV operated their delayed morning service to Dusseldorf

PIA Boeing 777-240ER AP-BGK operated their flight from Islamabad

Jet2 Boeing 737-86Q G-GDFY operated a charter to La Rochelle taking "Wasps" Rugby team....

.... to France for their "European Rugby Champions Cup" match on Sunday afternoon

Aer Lingus Airbus A320-216 EI-FNJ operated their lunchtime service to Dublin

Emirates Rolls Royce powered Airbus A380-842 A6-EUQ operated their lunchtime service to Dubai

Flightline BCN Metro II EC-JIP spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron

Gulfstream IV N813PD was a morning arrival from Luton parking up to night stop

Piper Seneca V G-JMOS was a visitor arriving from Bournemouth and departing to Shoreham

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