Coventry Thread
 

Hello!

Whilst passing through Cov on 5/10/06 I noticed these 2, but coudn't get the reg's. Could somebody help?

Cirrus Dash 8

Blue & White Metro

Best Wishes

Adam

By Cov, I presume you mean Coventry (or could it be Covilha in Portugal which has the IATA code of COV?), it does help if you use the full name of a place on a Forum like this!

Presuming you mean Coventry (CVT/EGBE):-

The RUS DHC8 was DBOBU, it had arrived with the German U21 football team.

The Metro may have been BinAir's DCBIN which was present during the day. A picture can be found at:-

http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0878981/M/

DHC6 CGKBR was also present Thursday arriving late morning & parking on the North Apron.

Fried Chicken

Fried Chicken,

Yes I meant Coventry, and thanks for the info, much appreciated!

Best Wishes

Adam

Coventry Questions
 

Can anyone please tell me the operator who operates inbound to Coventry c. 20.30 with F 27s. Call sign sounds liKe Blue Stripe.


( Licensed glider pilot transceiver listerner)

Is either Farnair (do they use a WDL aircraft though?)


or MNG (Turkey) on mail ops.

Could you be hearing 'Black Sea' which is MNG's callsign.

Its Farnair Europe, based at Coventry, departs mid afternoon and returns around 9pm each day. They also have an ATR-42F Based

Regards


Andrew

Farnair Europe, callsign "Blue Strip", ICAO code FAH. They're currently using ATR42 HB-AFC & Fk27 HA-FAC from Coventry

Fried Chicken

Do Farnair operate charters or scheduled flights out of CVT?

the aircraft are used for the scheduled ParcelForce contract flights during the night & are available for ad-hoc cargo charters during the day

Fried Chicken

They also fly in from EHEH and EDDH in the evening on contracts.

I wouldn't say they were available for charters in the day - maybe at weekends occasionally.

Farnair is always available for cargo and passenger ad-hoc flights 24/7 if aircraft and crew are available.

ATR 42/72 and fokker 27.

The problem is that ups are using most cargo aircraft for night cargo ops from eddk but during the day aircraft are available.

Exactly - and they rarely have crew available at CVT to do ad-hoc work before their contracted weekday evening flights.

Thanks everyone.

Electra at CVT on 28/10
 

Anyone know what the OE- registered Electra was doing at CVT on Saturday flying on a BFL flight number to Keflavik?

Cargo flight over the atlantic, ferry flight to a new owner, aircraft retiring???

On its way to Canada to be converted into a water bomber. The other electra in the Amerer air fleet passed through in the summer.

Does that mean Amerer have no more left now, and it is only NPT operating them in Europe?

Certainly does, but then they specialise in being different!

it arrived from Linz on Friday as BFL1027 to nightstop

Fried Chicken

Visitor to CVT
 

The Hapag Lloyd 737-800 (D-AHLQ) landed at Coventry last night. Looked really nice and tidy and soo much larger than its Thompsonfly brothers and sisters (G-THOD etc)

Wondering if Thompsonfly are going to use it regularly or was it becomes one of the 4 smaller 737's had gone tech somewhere.

Does anyone know if Coventry can handle fully laden '800's lanidng wise or is (landing and braking) performance as good as the 737-500's ?

B737-500 G-THOA is currently at Luton undergoing maintenance prior to it being returned to its lessor. To replace this, G-THOE (a -300) has been temp' based at Coventry recently.

However, due to the late delivery of Thomsons' latest G-THOO (a B737-300 with Winglets!) which is to be Coventry based, there have been problems occasionally should an aircraft go tech or get delayed.

The newest B737-800 G-FDZA was rumoured to position to Coventry to help out till THOO gets delivered

FC

Training flight using a thomson call sign

The Hapag Lloyd actually arrived on a service flight, namely TOM968T from Paris Orly. It then positioned out as TOM968F after around an hour on the ground.

Recently arrived has been B737-300W G-THOO from Shannon as TOM9223

FC

Coventry gets another new resident.

Viscount F-BGNR is hoping to take up residence in the not to distant future:ok: :ok:

She certainly is my friend:)

We have actually started moving her, albeit small components, but the main bulk of the airframe will be on the move in the not to distant future so keep your eye's peeled.

Don't be mistaken in thinking she's is going to Coventry Airport cause she's actually going to the Midland Air Museum and being restored by us as a live exibit.

Happy dayz! I love British aviation heritage:ok: :ok:

All the best with the move look forward to seeing her in place

TUI/First Choice merger
 

Following on from the TUI/First Choice thread where a poster asked if the
738 was too big for Coventry assuming that the 733's are eventually
replaced.

It was not clear if "too big" was in terms of aircraft size for landing at Coventry in all conditions or if it was about seating capacity.

I posted some 2006 stats showing the best routes, the worse and
a couple what I thought were in the middle, on the lines of seating capacity.

I calculated the PISA incorrectly at 10 rotations a week for seven months
rather than 8 but other than that the flights average around the 100 - 110 mark (estimate!) except for Paris & Amsterdam at 80 ish (estimate based on 12-14 rotations a week).

I don't think the recent TUI order has been split and I suppose that the 73G might be a possibility but if it is the 738, is it likely that this is too much capacity for four units at Coventry unless of course some flights are moved from BHX (again a possibility).

It will be interesting to see what Coventry, Birmingham and East Mids end up with when the dust settles. I am sure BHX are worried with FCA
long-haul at EMA already and a TUI with a LOCO base at Coventry but
surely it is too big an area to ignore completely but will three bases in the Midlands be too much in this day and age?

OP