RECENT NEW ACTIVITY @ LHR
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If only there could have been a touch more sun when the Swiss flight arrived!
The Great Chinese Aeroplane Drought appears to be ending with one arriving yesterday afternoon and three or four today.
The Great Chinese Aeroplane Drought appears to be ending with one arriving yesterday afternoon and three or four today.
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RCAF CC-177 on approach into Heathrow 09R...
There seems to have been a few A343's into LHR this week doing charters for others. Funny how these are now rare and interesting and before they were underpowered sausages of little interest :-)
Swissair used 777's on two flights today from Zurich, one morning, one evening. Haven't seen them used before into LHR, although the A330 and A340's have been used all through the last 5 months.
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Saw a Polar 747 going out earlier on today, not sure whether they've been mentioned before or are regular visitors.
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Old habits die hard, but thank you for the correction. I used to love flying Crossair back in the day, a great little airline with the Jumbolinos and Saab steeds, very reliable.
Back when Swissair was Swissair the first flight from Zurich was a DC-10-30. As I understood it they made enough money from filling Zurich/London with "bankers" that when it came to the London/Zurich it was a case of selling what they could to make some cash flow.
How about the other side of the "recent activity" coin? "Recent lack of activity". While at Heathrow yesterday, I found myself wondering if China had closed. Nothing arrived from China at all. Today seems to be the same, no Chinese flights scheduled. I can see Chinese aircraft flying all over the rest of the world but nothing in the UK. Has somebody said the wrong thing?
1) They're cargo only
2) They vanish off fr24 once landed
CA937/938 and CA855/856 as per pax flt no. There are also misc other cargo flights.
The only passenger service is the Thu A380 from CAN and China Eastern from PVG. Some days this is cargo only, the clue is the passenger one is on pier at T2 and cargo one at Pier 6 on closed T3.
I miss the DC-10 - used to look out for the Biman Bangladesh one which operated into Heathrow until end of 2017. All the modern wide bodies are virtually identical whereas the tri-jets had some drama about them.
Yes the DC-10's were 'different' and they are missed, even if the odd MD-11F does fly over from time to time. I remember seeing one of the THY DC-10's doing and emergency return to LHR a few days after one of their's crashed in the forest outside Paris in 1974 (I think ?), the crew had an issue with a cargo door or some such, which was a contributing factor to the Paris crash. I remember also waiting until it was dark to glimpse an Air Zaire DC-10 landing for the first time at LHR, such was it's rarity back then ;-) The colour-scheme of National always used to make me smile, even on grey winter days when spotting at the Queens Building :-)