Tuesday 2 August 2011 - Blu Express and Mistral Air operate final student charters

Blu Express Boeing 737-31S EI-DXB positioned in from Milan Linate
to operate the final Blue Panorama student charter flight to Rome
.

Mistral Air Boeing 737-33AQC EI-DVC positioned in from Rome
to operate their final student exchange charter flight of the season
.

Air Transat Airbus A330-342 C-GCTS operated their flight to Toronto
.

Austrian Arrows/Tyrolean Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGI operated the mid
morning Brussels Airlines service in place of the usual aircraft OE-LGC
.

RAF Puma HC1 XW226 overflew the airfield during the morning

Friday 2 May 2014 - Ruby Star Antonov 12BP EW-394TI is an evening visitor to the Elmdon apron

Ruby Star Antonov 12BP EW-394TI starts up - in the early hours of Saturday morning -
for its departure to Bergen with a load of priority cargo.... Photo Mike Hollick

.... it had positioned in on Friday evening from Siauliai in Lithuania on its first visit to BHX

.... parking up on the Elmdon apron to await its cargo Photo: Mike Hollick

Brussels Airlines leased Tyrolean Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGC operated their lunchtime service to Brussels

Monarch Airbus A321-231 G-OZBE operated their inaugural flight to Hurghada in Egypt

Thomson Boeing 767-304ER G-OBYH positioned in to operate their flight to Montego Bay

Air Hamburg Citation Bravo D-CALL was a morning visitor to the Elmdon apron

Twinjet Airbus A319CJ G-NMAK was an evening arrival from Paris Le Bourget

Monday 14 October 2013 - Austrian Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGH flying for Brussles Airlines

Austrian Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGH operated the mid-morning Brussels Airlines flight replacing
the usual OE-LGC - the aircraft now wears Austrian - rather than Austrian Arrows - titles
and is operated on their behalf by Tyrolean

Lufthansa "Sharklet" equipped Airbus A320-214 D-AIZX operated their afternoon service
from Frankfurt - its first visit to BHX

Thomas Cook Boeing 757-28A G-FCLF operated their flight from Las Palmas - its last revenue flight
before it positioning out to Southend prior to return to lessor

Hawker 800XP M-YCEF which has been parked at BHX since mid-August was an afternoon departure

Wednesday 19 June 2013 - Air Berlin Boeing 737-86J D-ABMF makes its first visit to BHX

Air Berlin Boeing 737-86J D-ABMF which wears "One World" titles operated
their flight to Hannover - its first visit to BHX Photo: Mike Hollick

Brussels Airlines leased Tyrolean Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGC operated their mid-morning service from Brussels

Lufthansa "Sharklet" equipped Airbus A320-214 D-AIZT operated their evening service from Frankfurt

Windrose Air Challenger 300 D-BUBI was a late afternoon arrival bringing
in Rod Stewart for his concert at the LG Arena at the NEC

Gulfstream 550 N119LE which arrived from Paris le Bourget and....

JOTA Aviation King Air G-JOTB were day stopping visitors on the Elmdon apron Photos: Mike Hollick

Titan Boeing 757-256 G-POWH was a later evening arrival on the Elmdon apron bringing home
the West Midlands Police team that had been in Northern Ireland for the "G8" summit

Saturday 26 January 2013 - Monarch Airbus A320 G-OZBY makes its first visit to BHX

Monarch Airbus A320-214 G-OZBY positioned in from Manchester to operate a delayed flight to Venice
- its first visit since joining Monarch although it had previously visited when it was G-OOAR with First Choice

Austrian Airbus A320-214 OE-LBR operated their weekly IT flight to Innsbruck - its first visit to BHX

easyJet Airbus A320-214 G-EZTH operated their afternoon service from Geneva - also on its first visit....

.... while Airbus A319-111 G-EZIO which wears a special Unicef "Change for Good" colour scheme

operated their morning service to Belfast International

Citation Bravo G-ORMH which had diverted in on Friday evening when Leeds Bradford

was closed by snow was an afternoon departure

Saturday 19 January 2013 - Austrian Airbus A320 OE-LBS operates their IT flight to Innsbruck

Austrian Airbus A320-214 OE-LBS operated their weekly IT flight to Innsbruck....

.... it wears "operated by Tyrolean" titles following the recent reorganisation of the Austrian Airlines Group

Lufthansa Airbus A321-231 D-AIDK operated their lunchtime flight from Frankfurt

Emirates Boeing 777-31HER A6-EGG finally departed back to Dubai - the aircraft had been diverted

to Glasgow on Friday afternoon when BHX was closed by snow and as a result was 22 hours late

TAG Aviation Embraer Legacy 600 G-OGSK was a lunchtime arrival when it diverted in from Cambridge

Netjets Citation XLS CS-DXY made a morning visit to the Elmdon apron

Historic BHX - Saturday 8 January 2005

Tyrolean Dash 8-402Q OE-LGB operated the first flight of a new weekly ski IT flight to Bolzano in Italy

First Choice Airbus A321-211 G-OOAE operated the first flight of their weekly ski IT flight to Innsbruck

SAS MD 87 LN-ROZ operated their morning scheduled service to Copenhagen

Aer Arann ATR 72-202 EI-REE operated their flight to Cork

Crossair Embraer 145LU HB-JAL operated the lunchtime Swiss service to Zurich

- it wears additional "400th Embraer 145" titles

bmibaby Boeing 737-3L9 G-OGBE operated their new service to Prague

Thomas Cook Boeing 757-28A G-JMCF operated their weekly ski IT flight to Lyon

flybe Dash 8-402Q G-JECE was an afternoon departure to Edinburgh

Air Slovakia Boeing 757-236 OM-DGK was damaged during the overnight gales which lifted up the aircraft

and turned it through 90 degrees with a set of passenger boarding steps ending up under the aircraft

Sunday 16 December 2012 - Enter Air Boeing 737 SP-ENI operates a "Santa" flight to Lapland

Enter Air Boeing 737-43Q SP-ENI was a morning arrival from Gatwick on its first visit to BHX....

.... it was soon off to Enontekio in Finnish Lapland operating a "Santa" flight

Austrian Boeing 737-8Z9 OE-LNT operated their first IT flight of the ski season to Innsbruck

a day late! - the aircraft is in "Star Alliance" colours with the 15th anniversary markings....

.... it also wears additional "operated by Tyrolean" below the Austrian titles following

the recent reorganisation of the Austrian Airlines Group

Thomson Boeing 757-28A G-OOBA was an afternoon arrival operating a "Santa" flight from Rovaniemi

in Finnish Lapland - it is the second Boeing 757 to be repainted into the new Thomson colour scheme

Monday 19 November 2012 - TAG Aviation Global Express G-XXRS makes its first visit to BHX

TAG Aviation Global Express G-XXRS arrived on Sunday evening on its first visit to BHX - after

spending the night parked up on the Elmdon apron it departed to Kiev Photo: Mike Hollick

Star Air Boeing 767-25EF OY-SRM flying on behalf of UPS made its first visit to BHX when it was an

early morning visitor to the Elmdon apron routing from Cologne to Belfast International via BHX due

to the overnight closure of the runway at East Midlands for maintenance Photo: Mike Hollick

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8F2 TC-JHM operated their service to Istanbul - its first visit to BHX

Austrian Arrows Dash 8-402Q OE-LGE operated the morning Brussels Airlines flight

in place of the usual DH4 OE-LGC

SAS Boeing 737-76N SE-RET operated their flight to Stockholm Arlanda - another first visit to BHX!

Finishing the day as it started Global Express VP-CNY was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

- it is operated for "New Yorker" a German fashion company Photo Mike Hollick