GATWICK ROUNDUP 20-12-11

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John Dyer Posted: Tue, Dec 20 2011 9:18 PM

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VISITORS
THY A321 TC-JRT (4779) made a very welcome first visit at lunchtime today, launching the new daily service from Istanbul. An early evening newcomer was Hawker 900XP G-DLTC (HA-0035 ex P4-PET) of Hangar 8 Management, which arrived from Chambery. A further newcomer on the evening run from Madrid was Ryanair B738 EI-ESR (34995), the first of those that had been stored at Marana, AZ.

FLEET NEWS
British A/W A320 G-EUYN (4975) made its first flight today in full scheme as F-WWDT & was promptly ferried from Toulouse to Finkenwerder.
Norwegian Air Shuttle B738 LN-DYW (39010) arrived at Bergen on delivery today. LN-NOY (34919) has already made its first flight & allocations for next year include LN-DYX (39011), LN-DYY (39012), LN-NIA (39444) & LN-NOZ (39420).

ROUTE NEWS
AirAsia X. It is rumoured that the carrier is to drop its international routes to Gatwick, Paris, Mumbai & Delhi, perhaps as soon as February as these routes are losing money. More at:
http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/20111219231932/Article/index_html
Air Baltic is to maintain a daily service to Gatwick next summer rather than increase to 11 per week as it has in previous years.
THY began its daily Istanbul service today. Flights are due to be operated by A321s to start with & then a mix of aircraft including A320s & B738s. Plenty of scope for first visits here as the airline currently has 25xA320s (plus 2 leased out), 27xA321s (plus 16 on order) & 44xB738s (plus 10 leased out & 18 on order).
Ukraine International will increase its operation from Kiev from daily to 9 weekly from 6/7. The new flight will be AUI503 & is to be a B735 operation appearing on days 5 (eta 20.10) & 6 (eta 18.50).

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Odyssey A/L is a "paper" airline that hopes to start business class only flights from LCY to New York with 10 recently ordered Bombardier CSeries aircraft in direct competition with the British A/W A318 operation. One advantage that the CSeries has over the A318 is that it would be able to make the westbound journey non-stop, obviating the need for a fuel stop in Ireland.
Due tomorrow:
CS-DRQ HS125 etd 11.35 as NJE630E (presumably due to arrive later this evening/tomorrow morning)
G-DLTC HS125 etd 11.50 as HGR894
LX-FLY BD700 etd 02.50 as SVW34LY
M-INOR HS125 eta 18.30
Some regulars - CUB400/CU-T1250, DLH896/D-ABEI, HFY233/CS-TEX, TSC222 C-GTSR, TSC322/C-GITS
NAX flights - 10G/NOH (also 12J), 32A/KKR, 36C/KKJ, 51ZC/NOO, 55YB/NOL, 351L/NOD, 5818/DYI

CREDITS
Pete Bance, Ian Gawtrey, Horsham Spotter, David Hewitt, Cliff Hunt, Yogi Bear, Nick Yeadon, Paul Giblin, Mr Anon, Jethro, Skyliner, ATDB, Boris Karloff & 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
AEA1013 E195 EC-LFZ
AEA1015 E195 EC-KYP
AMC116 A319 9H-AEG
AUI501 B738 UR-PSA
AWE732 A333 N271AY
BER8596 A319 D-ABGO
BER8598 B737 D-AHXA
BTI6G1 B733 YL-BBY
CIM191 CRJ2 OY-RJJ
CIM195 CRJ2 OY-RJF
DAL12 B763 N155DL
DLH896 B735 D-ABIR (aircraft change from the predicted B733 D-ABED)
DLH898 cancelled, but B735 D-ABIK arrived from Leipzig as DLH899 to operate the outbound service
EIN23A A320 EI-DEE
EIN232 A320 EI-DVF (also EIN236/244)
EIN246 A320 EI-DVH
EIN248 eta 22.10
EXS2049 B733 G-CELK (from Athens)
EZS43LJ A319 HB-JZW (also EZS8467)
EZS8463 A319 HB-JZN
EZS8481 cancelled
HCC501 delayed to 00.55 tomorrow
HCC834 A320 OK-HCB (from Tenerife to operate the delayed outbound HCC502)
HVN145 B772 VN-A149 (third visit)
ISS351 A319 EI-DEZ
MAH612 B738 HA-LOC
MAH614 B738 HA-LOH
NAX6EX B733 LN-KKI
NAX10G B738 LN-DYH (also NAX12J)
NAX18Z B738 LN-NOV
NAX32A B738 LN-DYD
NAX34G B738 LN-DYR
NAX36C B738 LN-NIB (also NAX31F)
NAX38W B733 LN-KKS
NAX51ZC B738 LN-NOO
NAX55YB B738 LN-NOM (as NAX4455)
NAX59ZA B738 LN-NOI (aircraft change from the predicted LN-DYS)
NAX351L B738 LN-DYJ
NAX5818 B738 LN-DYM
RYR5FE B738 EI-DYH
RYR6MN B738 EI-EKT (also RYR1ZR/2MU/5ZG)
RYR6XB B738 EI-EFB
RYR7NH B738 EI-DPX (aircraft change from the predicted EI-EBD)
RYR16JN B738 EI-DCN (from Kaunas & on arrival screen as RYR2654)
RYR76VT B738 EI-ESR (first visit, aircraft change from the predicted EI-DYA)
RYR87JL B738 EI-EFX
RYR5301 B738 EI-EMD
SRR6977 B762F OY-SRN
TAP334 A319 CS-TTP
TAP338 A319 CS-TTB
TAP342 A320 CS-TMW
TAP344 A319 CS-TTH
THY1997 A321 TC-JRT (first visit)
TSC122 A313 C-GPAT
UAE9 B773 A6-ECA
UAE11 B773 A6-EMN
UAE15 B772 A6-EMK
XAX14 A343 9M-XAC
 
GA & OTHER MOVEMENTS
ES-PVC Lear 60 (arr 17/12, dep today as AIA3417)
G-DLTC HS125 (HGR868, but displaying HGR894 on SBS, first visit)
LX-FLY BD700 (SVW34LY)