East Midlands: Movements, Logs & Heads Up

[GeorgeBlackadder]

Jet2 G-GDFC

Flying again after it's incident at Dubrovnik. Out on LS605 to Malaga today.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Virgin 787-9 G-VNEW is currently on approach.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Virgin 787-900 G-VAHH is just about to land, it's positioned up from LGW.

 

[jfy1999]

KLM Cargo 747 PH-CKD is arriving from Montreal.

 

[jfy1999]

G-VNEW is arriving from Prestwick presumably on another crew training flight.

 

[jfy1999]

G-VZIG is doing crew training flights now. EMA, PIK, and MAN are seeing loads of B789 visits-I saw VZIG on my visit to MAN and VNEW has been all over the place.

 

[jfy1999]

Ryanair seem to have a crew training 737-700 registered EI-SEV, which is currently circling EMA.

 

[andyc941]

Virgin B789 G-VOOH has been doing training flights all day between EMA-PIK.Its currently just left EMA and on the way back to PIK. 🙂

 

[andyc941]

Virgins newly delivered B789 G-VCRU has been doing training flights all afternoon.

 

[jfy1999]

Thomas Cook Scandinavia A321 OY-VKC has just arrived from Trondheim as VKG9981.

 

[jfy1999]

A rare visit to the UK for Volotea. B717 EI-EXI is en route from EMA to STN as VOE951R.

I remember one of these bringing Real Madrid fans to Manchester back in 2013.

 

[User001]

Volotea do make visits to the UK more than you think.

They used to run a SEN-PMI charter, and now do a SOU-PMI charter.

They have run several football flights to MAN.

 

[jfy1999]

Qatar Airways Cargo A330-200F A7-AFY is currently on the ground at EMA.

 

[andyc941]

BH Air A332 LZ-AWA is enroute to EMA from Sofia as BGH3604,thanks to John Robinson from another mailing lit for the information :good:

 

[User001]

An Air Europa E190 also arrived from PMI, presumably for painting.

 

[jfy1999]

G-VFIT hasn't operated a commercial flight in a long time so I presume it is being withdrawn from service. Possibly been repainted as well.

 

[Aviador]

How many A340s are left in the Virgin fleet, there can't be many.

 

[jfy1999]

All the A340-300s are gone and there are only 11 A340-600s left--there used to be around twice that number.

All going to be replaced by the new 789s.

The 747s can't have that much mileage left either, but the A380 order has been delayed. So we could soon have a situation where the airline whose slogan was "4 engines 4 long haul" will have a fleet composed entirely of twin jets...

 

[andyc941]

Silkways IL76 EZ-AZ100 was in EMA this afternoon.Dont know if this has visited before.

 

[jfy1999]

Cobalt are looking to start flights from East Midlands, and their A320 was there today operating a flight to Dubrovnik for Enter Air.