Monday 11 June 2012 - Sunwing/Thomson Boeing 737-8K5 C-FTLK off to "Euro 2012"!!

Sunwing Boeing 737-8K5 C-FTLK positioned in from Dublin
to operate a Thomson charter flight to Donetsk in the Ukraine
taking England fans to watch their first "Euro 2012" match
against France this evening/Monday. The aircraft - which left
BHX at 0540! - is in the Hapag Lloyd "retro" colour scheme
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Air VIA Airbus A320-214 LZ-MDB positioned in from Bourgas
to operate for Monarch initially departing on their morning
service to Alicante - this was its first visit to BHX

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Lufthansa Airbus A321-231 D-AIDB operated their morning
service from Frankfurt - its first visit to BHX - while....
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.... Lufthansa Regional Embraer 195LR D-AEBO operated their
afternoon service from Munich - also on its first visit to BHX
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Aer Lingus Regional/Aer Arann ATR 72-212A EI-REL operated
their inaugural service to Knock/Ireland West Airport - a route
dropped by bmibaby the previous day
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Suckling Dornier 328-110 G-BWWT operated the morning flybe
service to Dundee in place of the usual Loganair Saab 340
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Citation XLS+ D-CHEM was a morning arrival parking up to night
stop on the Elmdon apron - its first visit to BHX Photo: Mike Hollick
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Jet Ranger III G-MFMF operating in the area as "Electricity 18"
made a precautionary landing on the Elmdon apron adjacent to
Taxiway Golf - after a check it was on its way again Photo: Mike Hollick

Sunday 26 May 2013 - Air Berlin Airbus A330-223 D-ALPF operates a charter to Venice

Air Berlin Airbus A330-223 D-ALPF positioned in from Berlin Tegel....

.... on its first visit to BHX

.... parking on Stand 42C

.... and then operating a charter to Venice

Turkish Airbus A321-231 TC-JRU operated their morning service from Istanbul - its first visit to BHX

SAS Boeing 737-683 LN-RPU operated their service to Stockholm Arlanda
which has now moved to a morning departure time on Sundays

KLM cityhopper Embraer 190-100LR PH-EZX operated their morning service
to Amsterdam - the aircraft is in "Skyteam" colours

Alba Star Boeing 737-4K5 EC-LTG operated the Monarch service to Alicante

Falcon 900DX M-DADI which had arrived on Friday positioned back to Luton

Citation CJ2 YU-BUU made a brief afternoon visit to the Elmdon apron

Citation II EC-IMF was an evening arrival parking up to night stop at BHX

Sunday 3 May 2015 - Antonov 12BP UR-CGX arrives to operate Earthquake relief flight to Kathmandu, Nepal

Shovkoviy Shlyah Airlines Antonov 12BP UR-CGX was an afternoon arrival....

.... landing on Runway 15 from Baku, Azerbaijan, via Bourgas

.... the aircraft was positioning in to operate an Earthquake relief flight

 

.... to Kathmandu, Nepal, parking on the Elmdon apron Photo: Mike Hollick

.... where the cargo was already waiting to be loaded onto the aircraft

Jettime Boeing 737-7Q8 OY-JTY operated the Monarch service to Nice

Titan Boeing 737-33AQC G-ZAPZ operated the Monarch service to Rome

Monarch Airbus A330-243 G-EOMA which had arrived on Thursday remained for parked on Stand 84C

Danish Air Transport MD 83 OY-RUE operated their flight from Paderborn

Lufthansa Boeing 737-530 D-ABIS operated their lunchtime service to Frankfurt

Friday 29 April 2011 - Monarch add "Just Married" titles to mark Royal Wedding Day

Monarch Airlines celebrated the day of the Royal Wedding by

adding "Just Married" to the "Congratualations Wills & Kate"

titles on Airbus A321-231 G-OZBR....
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.... and Airbus A321-231 G-OZBN
. KLM Boeing 737-7K2 PH-BGN operated their afternoon
service to Amsterdam - its first visit to BHX

Sunday 27 April 2008 - Heineken Cup semi final played at Ricoh Stadium, Coventry

The second semi final of the Heineken Cup between Saracens
and Munster resulted in a "fly in" of Irish rugby fans....

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....Thomas Cook Boeing 767-300 G-DAJC arrived from Shannon and

spent the day parked up on the 80's stands....

. .... while Monarch Airbus A330-200 G-SMAN arrived from Cork

and then positioned out to Gatwick
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Titan BAe 146 G-ZAPN arrived from Shannon and parked up for the day on Terminal 2
. Ryanair operated a number of extra flights - Boeing 737-8AS EI-CSZ

which wears "Arrivederci Alitalia!" titles operated an early

morning rotation from Shannon
. Monarch Airbus A300-600R G-OJMR positioned in late on Saturday

night and parked up on the 80's stands before operating the return

charter flight to Cork

Wednesday 21 April 2010 - Ash cloud? - Birmingham Airport is back in business!!

After clearance was granted on Tuesday evening to reopen UK

airspace the race was on to restart operations - first departure

(with passengers) from BHX on Wednesday morning was

Monarch flight ZB 402 to Faro which was operated by

Airbus A321-231 G-OZBG - well done to Monarch

for having 3 of the first 4 departures from Birmingham ....

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.... and to Tim and Lucy from the "Express and Star" for

being on hand to catch the first departure

- see http://tinyurl.com/bhxexpressandstar -

which earned them a copy of the "BHX Flight Guide"!!

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Monarch Airbus A321-231 G-OZBG lifts off Runway 33 on its way
to Faro - the first departure since Thursday 15 April 2010! - the
race was then on to repatriate all the stranded passengers....
. .... Lufthansa used CityLine Embraer 195LR D-AEBB to operate
their afternoon service to Munich - its first visit to BHX - in
place of the usual Canadair CRJ 900 while....
..... Turkish Airlines laid on two extra flight to repatriate passengers
stranded in Istanbul - Airbus A321-231 TC-JRB was an evening
arrival with 321 TC-JML operating an (extra) lunchtime service
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Eurocypria Boeing 737-8BK 5B-DBZ operated their

much delayed IT flight to Paphos

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Hawker 850XP G-CERX was an overnight arrival

spending the day parked on the Elmdon apron....
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.... while Eurojet Citation XLS G-KPEI was an afternoon visitor
operating a training flight

Tuesday 14 April 2009 - Turkmenistan Boeing 767 EZ-A700 on the way to the USA!!

Turkmenistan Boeing 767-300 EZ-A700 prepares to depart for

Lakeland/Kelly AFB outside San Antonio in Texas, USA....

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.... it had earlier arrived from Ashkabad, Turkmenistan, and is a

VIP/Goverment aircraft like Boeing 737-700 EZ-A007 which had

passed through BHX in the opposite direction at the start of April -

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http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.com/2009/04/wednesday-1-april-2009.html

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Air Slovakia Boeing 757 OM-ASG operated their service from

Amritsar via Bratislava before positioning out to Paris CDG
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Monarch Airbus A321 G-OZBT positioned in from Manchester
to operate a service to Palma - its first visit to BHX
. Regional Fokker 100 F-GPXL operated the early morning
Air France service from/to Paris CDG in place of the usual
CityJet Avro RJ 85 - its second visit to BHX in a week