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  1. GliderPilot

    easyjet

    Thank you for your insight, its greatly valued :)
  2. GliderPilot

    easyjet

    Sorry to bombard you with questions @BHX492, do you know why the based aircraft swap often? We started with G-UZHJ, then G-EZOK and then swapped to G-EZOP all since the first based aircraft started, a spotters dream, I really like it, wondering if it's just BHX and the easyJet fleet finding its...
  3. GliderPilot

    Route Development & Rumours

    Come on gentlemen let's call a spade a spade, if there is the demand for these routes from BHX they'd exist or there would be a hell of a lot more noise around them than the quiet hopeful whispering we see. I've no doubt the long haul narrow body types may one day enable the return of a link...
  4. GliderPilot

    easyjet

    It's a bittersweet one for me this EZY base launch, I'd got within two weeks of my start date to train to become a pilot with easyJet on an integrated course after completing all the assessments, getting a medical and securing a conditional job offer. I had said to my family that I hope easyJet...
  5. GliderPilot

    Birmingham Airport Cargo Operations

    Thanks for clarifying Ian that makes sense, I couldn't believe what I was reading if BHX would completely turn Air China away :)
  6. GliderPilot

    Birmingham Airport Cargo Operations

    That explains the "more to it" then concerning max warehouse capacity. Still, a part of me thinks BHX has its eggs in the wrong basket by selecting/entertaining these ad-hoc services rather than a scheduled service provided by an airline that could then potentially provide a passenger service. I...
  7. GliderPilot

    Birmingham Airport Cargo Operations

    I'd tend to agree with this, though the 747 services are great I get the feeling they won't be around forever. I doubt the services would ever overlap either. There must be more to it than BHX turning their nose up at it, don't bite your nose to spite your face and all that...
  8. GliderPilot

    easyjet

    Fair point
  9. GliderPilot

    easyjet

    Surprised there hasn't been any base training circuits (yet), I'm sure Jet2 did some circuit bashing at BHX for their new based crew before they started here
  10. GliderPilot

    BHX Movements and Heads Up

    Don't want to take the thread too far off track but considering EMA's bread and butter is overnight cargo flights you'd think they'd do this sort of work in the day after the bucket and spade flights have all departed before they start coming back, it's very quiet for most parts of the day...
  11. GliderPilot

    Birmingham Airport Cargo Operations

    It's all down to negotiations isn't it, for Air China, realistically, does it make that much of a difference whether their 777F operates into MAN or BHX? In terms of where their cargo ends up once it's offloaded, and where anything going the other way is sourced from, I suspect wouldn't have too...
  12. GliderPilot

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    I was watching this one as it was happening. I'm genuinely curious as to who is commanding that pattern, are the flight crew manually flying that, are they putting those headings into the autopilot to stay near the airport, are they being assigned headings by whoever they're being controlled by...
  13. GliderPilot

    Emirates

    I'd been wondering why I'd seen the same reg on the lunchtime service so frequently, no wonder when there are only five of them. I share the same sentiments as NWoody wondering why more have gone back into storage. Based on your previous post it looks like A6-EUX and A6-EUY have been WFU and...
  14. GliderPilot

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Yeah, I think so, the weather radar shows a mega system moving through BHX and surrounding areas at that time. I have seen others on different sites saying pilots were reporting 40-knot gusts. Whilst there's not much wind activity here on the ground (I'm not that far away from BHX) I can imagine...
  15. GliderPilot

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Crazy morning weather-wise from about 07:15 to 08:15, departures and arrivals held with a strong weather system passing over the top of the airport. Diversions away from BHX so far: EZY15ZW G-EZDL A319 Joined hold at MAN but diverting LIV EWG3HX D-AGWF A319 Diverting STN EJU82CH OE-LQB A319...
  16. GliderPilot

    BHX Movements and Heads Up

    Have moved this post to the weather & diversions thread myself. Ignore this lol
  17. GliderPilot

    Random Stuff!

    https://aviationsourcenews.com/incident/tui-uk-787-involved-in-door-mishap-at-birmingham-airport/ Yikes, thats a rough day at work
  18. GliderPilot

    Random Stuff!

    @DarloPlaneBoy though the police helicopters do not track on FlightRadar they are always visible on sites like 360Radar and ADSBexchange
  19. GliderPilot

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    We’ve just had a further flurry of diversions from Stansted, EI-DYW, EI-GSJ, 9H-VVD, SP-RKY and G-JZHT all in a line.
  20. GliderPilot

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Been quite a few into BHX already today and at a guess probably more. two in from EMA earlier on, the second of two Biz Jets from biggin hill is about to land and G-EUYW of BA is just lining up for 33 diverting from LHR
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