VISITORS
A very quiet start to the month with nothing to report today.

FLEET NEWS
Adria. One for the photographers among you. Adria CRJ2 S5-AAD (7166) now sports a special scheme advertising Internet provider SIOL (see the Skyliner site for a photo).
British A/W B772 G-YMMT (36518) was ferried from Cardiff to LHR this afternoon as BAW9183 & is due to operate BAW027 to Hong Kong late this evening. It is understood that B733 G-LGTE (24908) well be ferried to Goodyear, AZ, probably still UK registered, for modifications prior to going to WebJet. B735 G-GFFH (27354) will be flown from Gatwick to Glasgow in about a week's time for end of lease maintenance. It will then be ferried to LHR for painting for Air Midwest of Nigeria.
MK A/L. Reversing the recent trend, MK A/L is expected to take delivery of B742F G-MKLA (23711 ex G-BDXM, TF-ATX) later this month.

ROUTE NEWS
None today.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Sky Europe finally succumbed to the inevitable & announced today that it had ceased operations with immediate effect. Not surprisingly, Smart Wings, Ryanair & easyJet have all jumped in to offer rescue packages for stranded passengers.

Here goes with the customary look back at the previous month. On the airline front, the long-awaited Iraqi A/W service has still to begin & it is looking increasingly likely that it will operate to LHR rather than to Gatwick. It is some time since I have had to report the loss of an airline, but Daallo A/L has announced that it will suspend its Djibouti service during September. In addition, Delta's long-running Cincinnati service finished two days ago. On the bright side, however, we now have Windjet to look forward to from late October.
Looking at the first visits this month, we had the lowest total this year so far, 43, but it was still up on last year's 37 (the smallest monthly total in 2008). Breaking the number down, we had 28 new airliners (26 in 2008)& 15 new GA visitors (11 in 2008).
Among the airliners, we saw two new sub-variants, namely an A318 (G-EUNA), as opposed to A318CJ, & our first executive EMB190BJ (A6-ARK), as opposed to a straight EMB190/195. EasyJet took delivery of a further 3 more A320s, though the influx of new Ryanair B738s visiting us slowed to a trickle with only 2 appearing during August. There were, however, plenty of Turkish airliners making appearances with 8 that we hadn't seen before. Best among the airliners were probably EMB190BJ A6-ARK, Swiftair MD-83 EC-JJS, Farnair Europe Fk27 HA-FAD (still present), Bulgarian Air Charter MD-82 LZ-FDC, Sky A/L A320 TC-SKJ, Ukraine International's first B738, UR-PSA, & several visits from Afriqiyah's A332 5A-ONF. We also had our first visit from a Vueling A320 (EC-JGM operating for Atlas Blue). The only military newcomer was RAF Hercules C4 ZH865, the fourth RAF Herc to make its first visit this year. On the biz front, I would single out Astra C-GTDO, Lear 45 CS-TFR, Citation 525A LZ-FNB & HS125 F-HGBY as being of most interest.  

CREDITS
Fly1ngant, Jethro, Skyliner, Geoffrey Chaucer & anybody else that I have forgotten.

Happy spotting!
John (& "Mad" Max)   

MOVEMENTS SUMMARY (most from SBS)
AAW912 - A332 5A-ONF
ADR450 - B735 S5-AAM
AEA1013 - E195 EC-KYO (also AEA1015)
AMC116 - A320 9H-AEQ
AUI501 - B735 UR-GAK
AWE725 - B752 N941UW
AWE732 - A333 N273AT
BEL2121 - B733 OO-VEN
BEL2129 - B763 OO-DWF
BMM372 - B734 CN-RNC
BTI651 - B752 YL-BDB
CIM261 - CRJ2 OY-RJD
CIM5265 - B737 OY-MRF
CIM5761 - B737 OY-MRH (also CIM5765)
CTN494 - A319 9A-CTM
CTN4494 - A319 9A-CTH
DAL812 - A333 N814NW
EIN23A - A320 EI-DEF
EIN24D - A320 EI-CVA
EIN236 - A320 EI-CVD
EIN246 - A320 EI-DEF (also EIN248)
EZS8469 - A319 HB-JZP
EZS8473 - A319 HB-JZK
EZS8532 - A319 HB-JZQ (also EZS8471/8477)
FHY595 - A320 TC-FBR
ISS3531 - A319 EI-DFP
ISS3535 - A319 EI-DEY
MAH612 - B738 HA-LOC
MAH614 - B738 HA-LOH
MLD883 - A320 ER-AXV
NAX1302 - B733 LN-KKH
NAX1304 - B733 LN-KKP
NAX1306 - B733 LN-KKM
NAX1318 - B733 LN-KKU
NAX1320 - B733 LN-KKR
NAX3510 - B733 LN-KKF (also NAX3521)
NAX3514 - B738 LN-NON
OHY201 - A321 TC-OAI
OHY361 - A321 TC-OAN
OHY2345 - A321 TC-OAF
OHY3317 - A321 TC-OAK
PGT493 - B738 TC-APU (yesterday's flight - arr approx 00.40)
QTR075 - A333 A7-AEF
RYR1X - B738 EI-EBS
RYR9GW - B738 EI-DYK (new callsign for RYR9228 from Gerona)
RYR112G - B738 EI-EBD (also RYR114G)
RYR116G - B738 EI-DAL (also RYR118G)
RYR1124 - B738 EI-DLH
RYR1126 - B738 EI-DPO
RYR1182 - B738 EI-DWK
RYR5371 - B738 EI-DWR
RYR5562 - B738 EI-EBI
RYR5568 - B738 EI-EFD
RYR6454 - B738 EI-EBL
RYR9852 - B738 EI-DWX
SGX2203 - B738 TC-SGH
TAP332 - F100 CS-TPA
TAP334 - F100 CS-TPE
TAP342 - A320 CS-TNN
TAP348 - A320 CS-TNL
TSC142 - A313 C-GTSK
UAE009 - B773 A6-ECS
UAE011 - B772 A6-EMG
UAE015 - B773 A6-EBU
VIK114 - B738 C-FYLC (also VIK326)
VIK118 - B738 SE-RHU
VIK122 - B733 SE-RHT
VIK322 - eta 22.28
Correcting a callsign in yesterday's roundup, TC-FBR was on FHY591

BIZJETS, ETC
A6-ARK EMB190BJ (arr 31/8 & dep today)
CS-DML Be400XP (arr 31/8 & dep today)