GATWICK ROUNDUP 01-01-13

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John Dyer Posted: Tue, Jan 1 2013 9:09 PM

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VISITORS
Not the most of inspiring of starts to the New Year, but at least we had one newcomer today - Aegean A320 SX-DVX (3829) on the Athens service.

FLEET NEWS
None today.

ROUTE NEWS
None today.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Welcome to 2013, but before we move on, let's take a quick look back at the last month of 2012. It would be an understatement to say that December was disappointing. With a total of only 36 first visits it compared very unfavourably with December 2011 (58) & December 2010 (71) & was the lowest December total in the last thirteen years (which is as far back as my records go at present). This low figure may have been partly due to the lack of fog, ice & snow, which traditionally seem to give us a few extra December newcomers.
The breakdown for the month was 20 airliners, 14 biz jets, one helicopter & one twin. Dealing first with the heavies from our scheduled carriers, Aegean & Air Berlin each supplied an A320, British A/W an A321 & the first of their B773s we have seen here. Ryanair provided three B738s with one example of each from Norwegian Air Shuttle & Thomson A/W. Emirates managed a B773, Icelandair two B752s & Virgin Atlantic an A333. On one-offs & charters we saw a Germania A319, Wizz Air A320 (diversion), Jet2 B733, Jet Time B737 & three Enter Air B734s. The more interesting of the biz jets were probably Citation 525A 9H-ALL & Lear 60 ES-III. The helicopter was a Manx registered S-76 & the twin was a UK registered twin Star.

Thanks to Derek Malt for spotting the "deliberate mistake" in the LGW Review of 2012 that I posted earlier today - the Lufthansa CRJ7s were not LCY diversions, but were on the scheduled run from Frankfurt.

Due tomorrow:
B-6131 A332 eta 05.16 as CCA851 (third visit)
ES-PVA Lear 60 eta 08.00 as VPC1012, etd 09.00 as VPC1013
Regulars - AEE6LW/SX-DVZ, MLD833/ER-ECB
NX flights - 1ZN/DYY, 32A/DYU, 36C/NGG (third visit), 51M/NIB, 5818/NOL

CREDITS
Alan Edwards, Steve Spence, Derek Malt, Mr Anon, Jethro, Skyliner, ATDB, Ming the Merciless & anybody else that I have forgotten.

Happy spotting!
John (& my cat Mad Max)  
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/blogs/john_dyer/default.aspx

MOVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
AIRLINERS
AAW912 A320 ER-AXV
AEA1013 B738 EC-HJP (also AEA1015)
AEE6LW A320 SX-DVX (first visit)
AMC116 A320 9H-AEQ
AWE732 A333 N272AY
BER8598 A320 D-ALTE
BTI6BL B733 YL-BBI
EIN02H A319 EI-EPS (also EIN024/028)
EIN23A A320 EI-DVI
EIN232 A320 EI-DVJ (also EIN236/912)
EIN242 A320 EI-DVH (also EIN244/248)
EZS345M A319 G-EZEG (also EZS505V)
EZS529L A319 HB-JZU
EZS967N A319 HB-JZP
HVN145 B772 VN-A146
ISS597 A319 EI-DFA (also ISS351)
KAL909 B772 HL7715
NAX6EX B738 LN-DYG
NAX12J B738 LN-NOJ
NAX18Z B738 LN-DYE
NAX34G B738 LN-DYW
NAX36C B738 LN-NON (also NAX31F)
NAX38W B738 LN-NOD
NAX55Q B738 LN-DYK
NAX59T B738 LN-DYQ
NAX351L B738 LN-NOV
NAX3522 B738 LN-NOZ
NAX5818 B738 LN-NOL
NVD201 A320 LY-COM
RYR2MK A320 EI-EGC
RYR5YX B738 EI-DHN (also RYR2MU/8GR)
RYR6XB B738 EI-ESY
TAP334 A319 CS-TTS
TAP338 F100 CS-TPE
TAP342 F100 CS-TPC
TAP344 A319 CS-TTD
THY1981 A321 TC-JSA
THY1997 A321 TC-JRG
TSC122 A332 C-GTSI
UAE9 B773 A6-EMM
UAE11 B773 A6-EBN
UAE15 B773 A6-EBM
 
GA & OTHER MOVEMENTS
A6-ESH A319CJ (SHJ01)
G-RAJJ B462 (CLJ657, dep as CLJ657P)