VISITORS
A 35-year old Falcon 20E was today's first newcomer - Masterjet's CS-DPW (307 ex HB-VDV, I-GCAL, OE-GLL, F-GKIS, F-GYPB, F-GYMC). Arriving a little later was Jetfly Aviation's TBM850 LX-JFO (422), which was also on a first visit.
As usual, the winter schedules have brought a few small changes to callsigns, timings & destinations, but nothing too drastic. For some reason, Ryanair have at last dropped the "G" from RYR112/114/116/118 & renumbered RYR9GW back to RYR9228 & RYR1X back to RYR1184. The more interesting changes are detailed under Route News below.  

FLEET NEWS
Aer Lingus. I must admit that I haven't really been keeping an eye on the based fleet recently, but the arrival of EI-DES (2635) yesterday evening with a funny flight number prompted me to take a quick look today. Apart from the aforementioned EI-DES, we appear to have EI-DEC (2217), EI-DEK (2399) & EI-DVJ (3857) here at present.
Astraeus B752 G-STRW (24543) has its engine fixed now & it left Gatwick today bound for RAF Akrotiri as AEU743P.
Atlas Blue seems to have disappeared for good since today's flight arrived & departed with a RAM callsign.  
British A/W B744 G-BNLH (24050), which I mistakenly stated yesterday as being stored at LHR, left Cardiff today as BAW9151 bound for Victorville, CA. It would appear that it flew its last revenue service on 29/9 & was ferried to Cardiff for storage two days later, though confirmation would be much appreciated. All the A319s mentioned in yesterday's roundup as being due to ferry across to LHR late evening did indeed make their expected journeys.
Hello. No longer operating to Gatwick, but readers may be interested to know that MD-90 HB-JIC (53576) was flown from Basle to Stockholm/Arlanda today for interim storage prior to being ferried to the USA.
MK A/L B742F G-MKHA (23071) may well have escaped the scrapman's axe as it was ferried from Kemble to Filton today as BGB123.

ROUTE NEWS
Efly. Further to yesterday's roundup, my thanks to John at Exeter for demolishing my theory that the airline may take former Flybe B463 G-JEBF (E3202) as it has been sold to Ansett for scrap & is being broken up at Exeter. Perhaps I should have checked my own blog on Flight Global for the week ending 10/10 first!
Iraqi A/W. Perhaps the long-predicted service is moving a little closer to actually starting. The BAA screen this evening showed IAW623 from Baghdad via Ljubljana with an arrival time of 19.10, though it didn't actually turn up. 
Norwegian Air Shuttle. With the switch to the winter schedules, the carrier has added two Sunday morning flights, taking us up to eight - the same as on weekdays.
Onur Air operated a pair of A321 flights this morning. Whether these are new for the winter, or just a couple of one-offs, remains to be seen.
Rossiya seems to have stopped its Sunday morning service 

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
We live in an age where conspiracy theories abound & where nothing is an accident any more & no famous person ever dies of natural causes, or so some people would have us believe. The latest one to emerge is in connection with the loss of Yemenia A310 7O-ADJ (535) back on 30th June. The Yemen's official news agency is quoting an unknown website as claiming that French warships involved in military exercises near the Comoros Islands mistakenly shot down the airliner. Did I tell you that I saw Elvis & Lord Lucan spotting at the Gatwick crash gate today?

CREDITS
Tony Best, Mike Hooker, Ian Hemsley, John Creasey, Steve Spence, Michael Green, Jon/ord-1961, Jethro, Skyliner, Jeeves & Wooster & anybody else that I have forgotten.

Happy spotting!
John (& "Mad" Max)   

MOVEMENTS SUMMARY (most from SBS)
AAW912 - A332 5A-ONH (third visit)
ADR450 - CRJ9 S5-AAN
AEA1013 - E195 EC-KYP
AEA1015 - B738 EC-ISN
AMC116 - A320 9H-AEO (also AMC118)
AUI501 - B733 UR-GAQ
AWE732 - A333 N278AY
AZW722 - B762 Z-WPE
BEL2121 - B462 OO-DJR
BEL2129 - B462 OO-DJX
BRU851 - B735 EW-251PA (callsign displayed as BRU1736 on SBS)
BTI651 - B733 YL-BBL
CIM767 - CRJ2 OY-RJF
CIM5265 - B737 OY-MRU
CIM5763 - B737 OY-MRE
CIM5765 - B737 OY-MRF
CTN4494 - A320 9A-CTK
DAL12 - B763 N183DN
ECA996 - B738 5B-DBR
EIN23A - A320 EI-CVB (also EIN236/246/248)
ELL101 - B733 ES-ABK
EZS8469 - A319 HB-JZJ (also EZS8473)
EZS8471 - did not operate
EZS8477 - A319 HB-JZG
ISS3531 - A319 EI-DFP (also ISS3535)
MAH612 - B737 HA-LOS
MAH614 - B737 HA-LOR
MGX712 - F100 4O-AOP
MXA1594 - B762 XA-MXN
NAX1304 - B738 LN-NOG
NAX1306 - B738 LN-NOO
NAX1316 - B733 LN-KKT (also NAX1318)
NAX1332 - B733 LN-KKP
NAX3510 - B733 LN-KKD
NAX3514 - B738 LN-NOP
NAX3521 - B738 LN-NOQ
OHY3616 - A321 TC-OAN
OHY3618 - A321 TC-OAF
QTR075 - A333 A7-AEE
PVG7855 - B752 EC-ISY
RAM672 - A321 CN-RNX
RYR112 - B738 EI-DAJ
RYR114 - B738 EI-DLK (also RYR116/118)
RYR1124 - B738 EI-DAJ (also RYR1126)
RYR1182 - B738 EI-DCD (also RYR1184 - reverted from RYR1X as callsign)
RYR5371 - B738 EI-DYO
RYR5562 - B738 EI-EBH
RYR9228 - B738 EI-DWJ (reverted from RYR9GW as callsign) 
RYR9852 - B738 EI-DCE
SAS4623 - B735 LN-BUC
TAP334 - A320 CS-TNM
TAP348 - A320 CS-TNG
TRK473 - A321 TC-TCF
TSC652 - A313 C-GTSX
UAE009 - B773 A6-ECD
UAE011 - B772 A6-EMJ
UAE015 - B773 A6-ECH
VIK164 - B738 SE-RHS
VIK166 - B733 SE-RHU
 
BIZJETS, ETC
CS-DKD Gulf 550
CS-DPW DA20 (LMJ1017 - first visit)
LX-JFO TBM850 (first visit)
N808T Gulf 4