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D-ALFH 777f showing up on FR24, on its way.

Another report here about this. https://www.google.com/amp/s/aircargoworld.com/news/carriers/lufthansa-will-airlift-food-to-britain-skirting-port-logjam/

My thoughts entirely fight2win, that’s exactly my view on the situation. One wonders if they didn’t have the pressure from the a320 neo, would it not have been better to go with a completely new design? The 797 has been mentioned previously as a concept, and when you look at the success of the...

Today’s SXY 335 arrival was TF-AMN, Magma 747-400, arriving 15.20. Also today, positioning in from storage at Kemble, Air Atlanta 747-400, TF-AAD, arrived at 16.20. Routed up from Kemble at 10,000’ all the way, and is rumoured going to be used fo another round of PPE flights for a month or so.

Gotta keep the spin going, even if the flights aren’t!

It was always going to be a big ask, and that was before COVID struck. It is still a great idea, but going forward, especially with the changes coming up in the rail industry it just will not be financially viable, and therefore hard to justify.

1st Tenerife flight today was operated by A321 G-WUKJ. G-WUKC was moved to the engine test bay earlier this week for temporary storage.

Wizz UK will open their new DSA base this week, with the 1st flight to TFS on Thursday. A321 G-WUKC positioned in from Luton on Saturday 17th to start operations. Initially, 5 routes are to be operated by the based unit, add that to a total of 14 flights a week in October/ November from...

And another Etihad 777 tonight. A6-DDF - B77L - ETD9731 / 9732 From & back to Abu Dhabi

Etihad Cargo 777L, A6-DDC, is on the ground at DSA. Flight no’s - ETD 9731 / 9732 Arrived 19:25, ETD: 21:30, From / to Abu Dhabi.

There’s been some local speculation that they’re in Connection with the Chinese acquisition of the Scunthorpe Steel works.

A bit disappointing now we’re in the post - ppe phase, and the Magma/Astral seems to have settled back into the 3 weekly services we saw before lockdown. here’s hoping the airport team can drum up a bit more business for the future.

2nd based aircraft confirmed.

https://flydsa.co.uk/latest-news/wizz-air-announces-2nd-based-aircraft-and-6-new-routes

And that makes you wonder what their real agenda is. I mean, do they kick up a stink about Manchester Airport, which is vast compared to LBA, is in the middle of massive expansion, and probably emits more Co2 in a day than LBA does in a month?