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