Another A380 of China Southern came in after a few other 'new normal' arrivals late afternoon. I don't suppose that we'll see too many more of this type at LHR in the next few years as things are going.

It must be quite galling for the furloughed crew/employees of BA to see brand new aircraft being delivered to the fleet (even if ordered some time ago).

word on the street on ZBLA is either 8z or 8am local arriving LHR SUNDAY MORNING ferrying CHS-LHR

Titan's ex BA A319 G-EUNB is in this morning.

Edit: in fact it's just taken off...

Azur air B767-300 today - not seen them before. Saw the Alitalia B777 yesterday too - lots of interesting movements of late

To Lagos.... lucky them!
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And of course G-EUNB is an A318 - I stretched things a bit there! Or rather errant fingers did...

I saw a 757 this morning, (That wasn't a DHL!) and on looking it up it was a SCAT airlines (No Sh1t!) and had come from Almaty. Never heard of them before I must say, and certainly not that they were Kazakstani.

Citation X D-BEAR just left Heathrow over the top here - "my, Grandma, what big engines you have!"

Sadly, the German aircraft register rules won't permit a D-WOLF :O

Our German sister airline has D-ALEK. Which they probably don’t understand.

I was going to translate the Dalek's rather limited vocabulary, then realised it would be a bit inappropriate... :(

A Privilege Style 767 went by earlier today into LHR, perhaps another repatriation charter from the USA or South America ?

Arrived from SYCJ (Georgetown, Guyana).

I saw a BA 747 going by yesterday into LHR from Capetown. A veritable rarity these days.

Sitting in garden most of day its Surpising what goes by high Level . very few Heathrow departures though . Farnborough busy this tuesday morning With netjets and An A319CJ D-APGS Arrival

Not a rarity but a nice low fly past by a Virgin A350 this morning, about 4000' - usually more like 6000' over mine except for go arounds.

The way things are going we are going to see plenty of empty skies come June PAX 2 week curfew on arrival

AZUR Air anyone ? Can't say I've seen them before, certainly not at London Heathrow. A 767-400 of their's went by earlier today.

I suppose all the cargo only flights will continue as before, so at least the sky won't be so empty as you might think :-)

Sunday saw just over 250 movements - exactly 8 weeks since the last time that number was exceeded.

It was a former LATAM Chile/Air Canada/Aeromexico 767-300ER. I'm pretty sure only United and Delta fly the B764.

Definitely quiet at the minute - looks like a Swiss A330 due within the hour, have those been in before during the pandemic? I've noticed the more usual Swiss traffic.

And the Bahrain Royal Flight apparently!

The Bahraini 764 is an odd bird, built as prototype for the Northrop Grumman E-10A project, in the hope of replacing RC-135, E-4 and E-8 platforms.
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'Every day is a school day!'

Certainly is!

Yes, my mistake, it was a -300, I flew on a -400 of Delta recently (nice experience). I think the wingtips made me think it was the latter. The Swiss A330 just went by, I personally haven't seen one of these in the last months coming in to LHR, just the A319 and the A220 (or whatever it's called). I thought Swiss had sent all their large-gauge stuff to Jordan ?

Seems silly to start a new thread even if this isn't about Heathrow.

According to FR24 9H-NHS A340-600 just went past me near Yeovil at about 10,000 ft. It's in a NHS livery and seems to have been shuttling between Cardiff and Bournemouth for a couple of days (maybe longer?). Anyone know why? Today was the first time I managed to eyeball it!

I've seen it climbing out of Bournemouth heading towards Clacton a couple of times in the last fortnight - assume it was heading to the Far East to collect PPE or whatever but can't imagine it's then distributing the kit over to Wales. Crew training perhaps?

Second A340 in NHS scheme 9H-EAL just returning to Bournemouth from Tianjin - just sailed over me at 12000....

I saw that as well, thought I was seeing things! Where have all the other ex-VS A346's gone ? Scrap ? Storage ?

There can't be much space left at BOH for any large aircraft to manoeuvre with all the BA aircraft stored there on taxiways etc ??

A Swiss A340-300 went past out of LHR after 7pm. Rather large gauge for the route, but perhaps it's more for the cargo than the passengers.

Back when Swiss were Swissair the first flight in from Zurich was a DC-10. Swiss switched to an A330. It was always full coming into London (lots of "bankers"). Going back it rarely filled so you could get on easily with a standby/staff ticket.

I saw a strange looking small aircraft on the way in to LHR earlier, turns out it was a PC-24 Bizjet.

They are observing social distancing on the approach this morning, Alitalia A330 has done a nice big run down from Biggin towards Epsom, then back round Bromley to position about 8 miles behind the preceding BA 787!

DaveReidUK, do you know how many daily movements there are now?

Perhaps the BA 787 has put on weight in the lockdown and now has some serious wake issues ?

SP-AGA Pilatus PC-24 Has departed again

233 yesterday.

Aeroflot A350 in today? News to me that they have them!

News to me as well. Strange that they'd use it to LHR and not on the USA or Asia routes.

information and picture here https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/pres...t-a350900.html

Could be for repatriations (they need the pax capacity) or more than likely its for cargo reasons. BA operates a twice weekly 787 freighter service to DME for that very reason (and yes, I know it used to fly to DME anyway pre-COVID but that was more for the product offering).

champ