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AIRLINE NEWS
*Air Belgium A332F OE-LAL (832) ferried from Brussels to Woensdrecht today.
*AlbaStar. The two B738s that were on lease to FlyBondi, EC-MUB (32920/1293) & EC-NLK (33104/1337), have returned home. Both ferried from Buenos Aires to Natal on 2/4 & then on to Espargos & Palma yesterday.
*ASL A/L Belgium B734F OE-IAK (25097/2299) was registered N509VA at Laredo on 25/3 & delivered from there to Saltillo on 28/3 for Vent A/L. ?
*Avion Express. Three A320s left Buenos Aires yesterday after lease to FlyBondi & reached Miami via Trujillo & Orlando the same day. Flight trackers so far show nothing for today, but are predicting that they will ferry from Keflavik tomorrow to the following destinations:
LY-MLG (2863) to Vilnius
LY-MLJ (3877) to Antalya
LY-NVL (4683) to Castellon
*BA Euroflyer A320 G-MEDK (2441) ferried from LHR to LGW today after lease to British A/W since 30/1.
*Delta A/L A359 N528DN (722) made its first flight today as F-WZHJ.
*FedEx B763F N251FE (67542/1353) made its first flight today.
*Jet2 is to lease an A330 from HiFly from 1/7 & it will be based at Birmingham.
*KLM A21N PH-AXE (12473) was delivered from Finkenwerder to Amsterdam today.
*Privilege Style. Updating yesterday, A321 EC-OCT (5350) only flew one service for Air Arabia Maroc
*Smartwings B738 OK-TSF (37360/2783) ferried from Prague to Cologne today for lease to Eurowings.
*Sun Express B738 TC-SPR (39444/3965) ferried from Johannesburg to Antalya via Nairobi today after lease to SAA.
*Swiftair AT76F EC-OJN (1765) was delivered from Toulouse to Madrid today in FedEx scheme.
*Vueling A320 HA-LYQ (6614) ferried from Shannon to Maastricht today after painting for FlyArystan.
MILITARY TRANSPORT NEWS
None today
AND FINALLY
A reminder that the Gatwick Aviation Museum is now open at summer times from 10.00 to 17.00 every Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Also, over the Easter period it will be open on Thursday 10th April & 17April as well. A number of events are lined up including hosting a number of classic & vintage vehicles on Sunday 27th April & an engine run of the Lightning & Shackleton on Saturday 24th May. Well worth a visit & more details may be found at:?
GATWICK NEWS
Three more newcomers today.
OY-RUH A320 (6749 ex VH-XUH, 2-HXHU) Danish Air Transport from Billund to Dublin lunchtime/early afternoon on behalf of Ascend A/W
G-DRTP B738 (39067/4602 ex VT-JFM, 2-TFJM) Jet2 from Toulouse this evening
TC-LCT B38M (60061/7561) Turkish A/L due later from Istanbul
G600 N609GB remains with us.
CREDITS
Mark Turner, Mr Anon, Skyliner, Jethro, ATDB, the Finkenwerder website, AIB Family Flights, Ch-aviation, Scramble, LAAS, Andrew Stewart, Lynda Gosling, Dave Richardson, Planespotters.net, SeanM1997, the Kinks, other contributors who wish to remain anonymous & anybody else that I have forgotten.
STAY SAFE!
John
