monarch a300 at palma
 

noticed a monarch a300 on stand at palma airport mallorca, was on same stand a week later, any ideas what its doing there?

A regular weekly flight to Palma!

Oh, thought monarch had retired the a300

Cheers

Not until 2015, and maybe not even then.

On a separate note, a Monarch A300 seems to have diverted from MAN to LPL this evening, around 9pm. Watched it on Flightradar, seemed to be on approach to MAN but didn't land and then proceeded to hold over the Crewe area before heading into LPL. There was a pretty torrential downpour in the area at the time which may have been the cause.

UUAA, didn't catch the A300 diversion but I did notice for the first time tonight some of the inbound Liverpool traffic was passing eastbound directly over Northwich. I've never noticed this before, is it usual? The track they were taking would easily make the casual observer think they were taking off from Manchester, although from watching on FR24 this clearly wasn't the case.

Stu666, definitely not usual for LPL inbounds. I did notice a KLM Fokker bound for LPL route over Northwich before I logged off. The weather could have had something to do with it.

I saw the KLM Fokker too, the track it took made it look like it had deliberately skirted around Northwich before turning on finals over Frodsham. There was a Wizz Air A320 behind the Fokker which was the aircraft that directly overflew Northwich on the track I'd never seen before. Weather was atrocious. It piqued my interest as the only LPL traffic I ever get to see comes in over the Welsh coast and turns over Frodsham.

Last week thee was a Monarch 757-200 G-DAJB which diverted to LPL from MAN inbound from AGP. Dont know why this was either.