Newcastle Thread
 

Any one know who operates the AN-12 parked on the remote stands at the moment, i think she may have been there all weekend as she was sitting in the same spot when i arrived back from bristol this evening.

I saw it fly in on Sunday 22/10/06 at approx 12.30 hrs.
I missed photographing it landing but got this one about 45 mins later on the stand.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...wcastle058.jpg


Trev:ok: :ok:

Vega An-12
 

Has now moved onto the new cargo apron.

I saw the VEGA crew in the terminal today at around 2pm.

African International DC-8 at NCL
 

Last sunday a African internationa DC-8 came into newcastle i was just wondering if any one knew why she was here??


thanks

It went off to Barcelona and then Accra, Ghana (I think) on Monday morning, but no idea what it took out.

Money........

Unidentified A340 at NCL
 

At NCL today at roughly 11.00am i was sitting in my marketing lecture at the collage class room at NCL when i heard an aircraft taking off so i looked out the window and was presented with a White A340 taking off on runway 07 it looked huge!! was unable to make out any markings on it what so ever so does any one know who operated it??
Also was it even taking off as when i drove in this morning there was nothing near the size of an A340 in!! The Biggest aircraft in at that time was a Flyjet 757.
Any ideas??

cheers
Luke

French AF A340-211 F-RAJB c/n 081

jethro
UK and Ireland Airline Fleet Listings
http://www.jethros.i12.com

Any one confrim that a C130 was in today>??

Does any one know why BA hasn't been using stand 3 today?? it seemed to me that an aircraft was parked across 2 stands this morning, infact im sure i saw an EZY aircraft go onto stand 3 reverse out then move to stand 2!

cheers.

Newcastle
 

See that XL have their 738 back at NCL and KLM have used their Fokker F50 PH-KVF.
regards
EGNT

F50
 

EGNT: Saw the KLM F50 land around 18.15 - a very pleasant change, and now a bit of a rarity but having said that, so was the F27 until the MNG Cargo F27's started operating on a nightly basis! :D

Seemed to make an awful racket thought it was going to fall out of the sky hehe :ugh:
EGNT

Is the XL 738 in an NCL now as it isnt supposed to start flying for another week or so - or so I thought?!

xl 738
 

yep the xl 737-800 came up today around 1730 from LGW

XL738
 

The winglet fitted XL738 is, or was parked on stand 5 or 6 - just about the time the KLM F50 landed, made a rather boring day somewhat more interesting.. :cool:

Cripes, the local rag having a field day with Newcastle this last few days. Read in tonight's chip wrappings.

Airport boss resigns14:38, May 17 2007

By:

Newcastle Airport boss John Parkin has resigned.
Mr Parkin, 52, was suspended in March while the airport investigated what it described as “certain personal contractual issues”.
A statement released by the airport on Thursday said: "Following a statement issued on 23rd March 2007 concerning the suspension of John Parkin, Chief Executive, and an associated ongoing investigation into certain personal contractual issues, Newcastle International Airport Limited confirms that Mr Parkin has resigned from the Company with effect from Friday, 11th May 2007.
"Since 23rd March significant progress has been made in connection with the investigation into the personal contractual issues and Mr Parkin’s resignation does not affect or impact on the ongoing inquiry.
"We are advised that, because of the legal nature of the ongoing investigation, we are unable to make any further comment on the matter at this time."

Oh well.

Left again at approx 18:20.
EGNT

Newcastle EK
 

Whos going? I'm hoping 07 is the active on sat we'll just have to see, I'll be there with my camera shooting it landing and then leaving again before speeding off to the match! I suspect the airport and surrounding areas will be quite busy. Maybe see you all in wings for a celebratory drink ? :)