Friday 6 February 2009 - more snow in the UK! - more diversions to BHX!!

Snow again closed Luton resulting in Bulgaria Air Boeing 737-330

LZ-BOW - which was operating SkyEurope flight "NE 2122" from

Prague - diverting in. It later positioned back to Prague
.

Also diverting from Luton was Air Slovakia Boeing 737-3Z9 OM-ASC

which was operating SkyEurope flight "NE 120" from Bratislava
.

Scot Airways Dornier 328-110 G-BZOG was an afternoon visitor to

the Elmdon apron arriving with the Newcastle United FC team for
their match against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday afternoon

Monday 2 February 2009 - winter comes to the UK! - diversions come to BHX!!

Significant snow falls in the south east on Sunday evening

resulted in a large number of diversions to BHX from

Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and London City and

the bad weather continued into Monday....
.

.... the result was an airport packed with overnight diversions!
.
Good use was made of the former cross runway - now Taxiway

Tango - and despite the number of earlier diversion they kept

coming during Monday although BHX had to close a number

of times during the day for snow clearance
.

Wizz Air Airbus A320-232 LZ-WZB was operating flight "W6 901"

from Sofia to Luton when it diverted in. It had another go to get
into Luton in the early afternoon only to divert back to BHX again!
.
British Airways Boeing 747-436 G-CIVW was operating flight
"BA 118" from Bangalore when it diverted in from Heathrow
.
Wizz Air Airbus A320-232 HA-LPI was operating flight "W6 201"
from Budapest to Luton later positioning direct back to Budapest
.
The snow ploughs prepare for another run down the runway!
.
Air Slovakia Boeing 737-3Z9 OM-ASC was operating SkyEurope
flight "NE 120" from Bratislava to Luton when it diverted in
.
Boeing 737-7AH BBJ N888TY which had been parked on the
Elmdon apron since it arrived from the US on Saturday evening
departed to Zurich in the middle of a blizzard!

Wednesday 3 December 2008 - Sky Europe Boeing 737 OM-NGC arrives with MSK Zilina

SkyEurope Boeing 737-700 OM-NGC brought MSK Zilina (of

Slovakia) in for their UEFA Cup match against Aston Villa on

Thursday evening - the aircraft positioned back to Bratislava

.

RAF C 17 ZZ175 operated a medivac flight before
positioning to Brize Norton

.

Royal Navy Sea King HU5 XV673 - which had arrived on

Tuesday afternoon - departed shortly after the C 17 left
.

Cessna Citation XLS N575NR - which is a regular visitor to

Wellesbourne - spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron

Sunday 28 September 2008 - Eurocypria Boeing 737 5B-DBR operates IT flight to Larnaca

Eurocypria Boeing 737-800 5B-DBR operated their

weekly IT flight from Larnaca

.

RAF C 17 ZZ171 operated a medivac flight crossing Runway 33

via Taxiway Charlie to park on the Elmdon apron
.

SkyEurope Boeing 737-700 OM-NGA "Adriana"

operated their final service to Bratislava
.

Eastern Saab 2000 G-CDEA operated a charter flight
from Wick before positioning out

SkyEurope say goodbye with a smile!

SkyEurope operated their final BHX-Bratislava service
today, Sunday 28 September 2008
.
The last flight was operated by Boeing 737-76N OM-NGA
which wears the smiling face of Slovak model "Adriana"
.
This is the same aircraft that operated the inaugural flight
from Bratislava on Monday 29 October 2007
.
SkyEurope have served BHX since 12 April 2006 when
they started a twice weekly service from Krakow which
was replaced by the Bratislava route last year
.
Ryanair commenced a three weekly service to Bratislava
from BHX on 1 July 2008 when their second based aircraft
commenced operations
.

Sunday 28 September 2008

SkyEurope to drop Birmingham to Bratislava

SkyEurope (NE) will be ceasing their four times
weekly Boeing 737-700 service between Birmingham
and Bratislava on Sunday 28 September 2008
.
Ryanair (FR) commenced a three weekly service to
Bratislava on 1 July 2008 when their second based
aircraft commenced operations from Birmingham
.

Wednesday 16 July 2008

Sunday 4 November 2007 - Omni Air DC 10 N612AX diverts in from Brize Norton

Omni Air International Douglas DC 10 N612AX operating flight

"Omni Air 602" diverted in due to fog at RAF Brize Norton

to where it departed when the weather cleared

.

.
SkyEurope Boeing 737-700 OM-NGM - which had been registered

HA-LKM until the closure of their operation in Hungary at the

end of October - operated their new Bratislava service
.

Eurocypria used Boeing 737-800 5B-DBV on their IT flight from Paphos

Monday 29 October 2007 - SkyEurope operate inaugural flight to Bratislava

SkyEurope started their new service to Bratislava with the inaugural

flight being operated by Boeing 737-76N OM-NGA "Adriana"

.

European Boeing 737-229 G-CEAH positioned in from Blackpool

on Saturday evening after the end of its lease to Jet2 and spent

the day parked up on stand 24