Air Sylhet/Akal Air operate inaugural Boeing 757 flight from Birmingham to Amritsar, India

Air Sylhet/Akal Air (SL) operated the inaugural flight
of their new twice weekly service from Birmingham to
Amritsar, India, via Vienna on Saturday 4 April 2009....
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.... congratulations to the team from Air Sylhet/Akal Air
on the successful launch of their new airline and the
"on time" departure of their first flight to Amritsar!!
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The aircraft - a Boeing 757 - departs Birmingham shortly
after 1830 on Saturday evening, 4 April 2009
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Akal Air flights - which are operated by Air Sylhet - will
depart Birmingham for Vienna and Amritsar at 1830 on
Saturday and Wednesday - flight SL1001 - with the return
on Sunday and Thursday - flight SL1002 arrive at 1930
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See http://www.akalair.com/ for more information
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The "Akal" symbol is on the tail of the Air Sylhet aircraft
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Saturday 4 April 2009

Sunday 21 December 2014 - Motor Sich Antonov 12BP UR-11819 is due to depart at 1200 Sunday

Motor Sich Antonov 12BP UR-11819 which arrived on Saturday evening spent the early hours of the
morning parked up on the Elmdon apron - it is due to depart at 1200 on Sunday Photo: Mike Hollick

Turkish Airlines "200th aircraft" Boeing 737-9F2ER TC-JYI visits Birmingham on Tuesday 2 April 2013

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-9F2ER TC-JYI which is their "200th aircraft".... Photo: Ron Kosys

.... operated their flight from Istanbul touching down on Runway 33

.... this aircraft which wears a special colour scheme Photo: Ian Bowley

.... was visiting to mark the increased frequency of their service

.... from Istanbul to 10 flights a week Photos: Brett Allen

.... and was greeted to a traditional water canon salute

.... by the Birmingham Airport Fire Service

   

.... before taxiing to its parking stand

.... lets play that again - the view from Elmdon

.... as the aircraft goes through the water arch

.... and turns to its parking stand Photos: Laurence Jones

.... and parks on Stand 42R - while the aircraft is being turned round....

Selim Ozturk, General Manager for Turkish Airlines at Birmingham hosted a reception in the gate area

.... with Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, and the flight crew helping cut the cake

The Turkish Airlines cake!

The "Orchestra of the Swan" then joined everyone on the aircraft steps....

.... a quick check in the cockpit as the Captain prepares for departure

.... and Boeing 737-9F2ER TC-JYI is on its way Photo: Mike Hollick

.... climbing away destination Istanbul Photo: Nick Broome

 See here for an update on Turkish Airlines service to Birmingham

Tuesday 2 April 2013

Thursday 1 April 2010 - Mahan Air Airbus A300 EP-MNR operates their flight from Tehran

Mahan Air Airbus A300B4-603 EP-MNR operated their

flight from Tehran in place of the usual Airbus A310

Tuesday 1 April 2008 - Helvetic takeover operation of Swiss flights to Zurich

Helvetic took over the contract to operate the morning and

evening Swiss services from Flightline with Fokker 100 HB-JVF

operating the first flight from Zurich
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Air France/CityJet BAe 146-200 EI-CMS now wears

a mostly all white scheme
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Norwegian Boeing 737-300 LN-KKI wears additional "Krakow" titles
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Onur Air Airbus A321 TC-OAI operated their weekly IT flight from Dalaman
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PIA used Boeing 777-200 AP-BHX on their service to Islambad

flybe's new purple world comes to Birmingham!!‏

flybe have announced a major re-branding that will see the world turn purple!

As part of this the new ATC Tower will be painted purple - artists impression above  

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Sunday 27 March 2011 - Boeing 727 "Super 27" M-FAHD makes second visit to BHX!!

Boeing 727-76 "Super 27" M-FAHD was an afternoon arrival....

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.... as it positioned in from Luton

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.... to park up on Taxiway Lima and nightstop at BHX

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bmi Airbus A319-131 G-DBCD positioned in on Saturday evening

and is now operating three services a day to Frankfurt on behalf

of Lufthansa - it will be replaced by a bmi Airbus A320 in May 2011

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Aer Arann ATR 42-300 EI-EHH operated their flight to Waterford

- this service is to be operated by an ATR 42 for the summer

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Lotnicze Pogotowie/Polish Medical Air Rescue Piaggio P-180

Avanti II SP-MXI was a morning visitor....

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.... operating an air ambulance flight

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Agusta A-109C G-IFRH was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

Fedex commence Boeing 757F operations from Birmingham Airport to Paris CDG

FedEx Express (FX) commenced Boeing 757F services
from Birmingham on Monday evening, 26 March 2012, when
they also started a mini hub operation at the airport....
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.... from now on a Boeing 757F is operating the nightly
FedEx Express package service to Paris CDG (replacing
the Air Contractors ATR 72) while a Swiftair Brasilia
has commenced operating a feeder flight from Belfast
International to Birmingham - both flights operate each
weekday evening - with the packages from Belfast being
transferred onto pallets to continue to Paris CDG
when the Boeing 757F arrives from Manchester
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The Swiftair Brasilia remains at BHX (overnight) until the
Boeing 757F returns from Paris CDG in the early hours of
the following morning when the above process is repeated
in reverse and the Brasilia returns to Belfast International
while the Boeing 757F continues onto Manchester
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Please see below for the nightly schedule - for the avoidance of
doubt the result is no aircraft will now day stop at Birmingham
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FedEx schedule at Birmingham from Monday 26 March 2012
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2130/ N/S FX7006 EM2 from Belfast International
- operates Monday to Thursday - Swiftair
2200/2245 FX5203 75F from Manchester/to Paris CDG
- operates Monday to Thursday - FedEx Express
0410/0455 FX5204 75F from Paris CDG/to Manchester
- operates Tuesday to Friday - FedEx Express
N/S /0525 FX8006 EM2 to Belfast International
- operates Tuesday to Friday - Swiftair

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Schedule subject to change
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Tuesday 27 March 2012

Friday 26 March 2010 - RAF Nimrod MR2 farewell flypast prior to retirement

RAF Nimrod MR2 XV250 made an ILS approach and go around to
Runway 15 as part of a series of flights to mark its retirement....

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.... from RAF service at the end of March 2010 - the
flight originated at RAF Kinloss, in Scotland, and....
..... routed via Newcastle to BHX....
..... after flying down Runway 15...... Photo:Laurence Jones
..... it continued onto Liverpool and back to RAF Kinloss
Photo: Laurence Jones.The reason for the visit to BHX was that the flight deck crew all
came from Birmingham or Solihull! - they are seen above with
the whole Nimrod crew back at RAF Kinloss
Photo: RAF Kinloss
.A number of Nimrod's have visited BHX over the years - Nimrod MR2
XZ284 was present for the airport's 60th anniversary air display in
July 1999 parking in the static display on the former cross runway
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Jet2 Boeing 737-330 G-CELH was an early morning arrival
operating a charter flight fromMunster/Osnabruck
.Newly registered Hawker 850XP M-IRNE was a late
afternoon arrival on the Elmdon apron....
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.... as was Gulfstream IV N317MJ
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.... while Gulfstream 550 N556TT which had arrived
on Tuesday afternoon departed