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AIRLINE NEWS
*Air Explore B738 OM-LEX (29642/2247) ferried from Budapest to Stansted yesterday & on to East Midlands using Jet 2 flight numbers, presumably for lease.
*Avion Express Malta. Correcting info taken from the ‘Net yesterday, neither A320 9H-AMK (3562) nor 9H-MLL (5372) is for storage, but both entered service with Eurowings (as expected) today, the former from Hamburg & the latter from Dusseldorf.
*EgyptAir. Assuming that SU-GGB (44422/5287), mentioned yesterday is correct, it is a B738 & not a B38M. ?
* ETF A/W B738 9A-LAB (30882/760) ferried from Rijeka to Stansted today with a Jet2 flight number & is due to continue to Manchester tomorrow, presumably for lease.
*Fly2Sky A320 LZ-FSB (3055) ferried from Tirana to Sofia on 23/3 after lease to Air Albania & then ferried to Brussels today all white for lease to an unidentified carrier.
*Marathon A/L E190 SX-PTM (19000163) ferried from Bygdoszcz to Rome/Fiumicino today for lease to Aeroitalia.
*Volotea. A320 OE-IEL (4347 ex TS-ING, OE-IBB, B-6850, VP-COS, ES-NAB) ferried from Kaunas to St Athan today after painting into full Volotea scheme & is expected to become EC-OOC.
MILITARY TRANSPORT NEWS
None today
AND FINALLY
Thanks to Mr Anon for forwarding this excellent video shot by Richard Vandervord of some Gatwick traffic during the summer of 1988
GATWICK NEWS
Four first visits today.
A9C-FD B789 (39983/762) Gulf Air from/to Bahrain this morning/lunchtime (new service)
ET-AXL B789? (62176/944) Ethiopian A/L from/to Addis Ababa this morning
G-CMJJ AT76? (1324 ex PK-TNE, OY-YDN, EI-HDJ) Aer Lingus Regional from/to Glasgow this morning for British A/W. See Dave Long’s photo at
G-CMZI E190 (19000661 ex PH-EXD) Eastern A/W from/to Humberside this morning/lunchtime in an all white scheme (the airframe first visited on 05/11/19 while PH-EXD with KLM Cityhopper on diversion from LCY)
The last two aircraft above are the only new airliners to visit this year so far that weren’t built by Airbus or Boeing!
Due to make their first visits tomorrow are Ethiopian A/L B773 ET-ANN, sta 06.20 as ETH728 from Addis Ababa & Aer Lingus Regional AT76 G-CMJM, sta 09.10 as SHT1481 from Glasgow.
CREDITS
Bob Robinson, Adrian Benson, Stu Carr, Mr Anon, Skyliner, Jethro, ATDB, the Finkenwerder website, AIB Family Flights, Ch-aviation, Scramble, LAAS, Andrew Stewart, Lynda Gosling, Dave Richardson, Planespotters.net, SeanM1997, Celine Dion, other contributors who wish to remain anonymous & anybody else that I have forgotten.
STAY SAFE!
John
