Surprising Southend

Just had a very rewarding day at London Southend Airport, however I thought I would first post a couple of Swedish ATRs in the sunshine of last week first.

SE-MDC arriving from Helsnkifor maintenance, wearing a Transavia style coloured band..

SE-MDC Golden Air AT75 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

With sister ship SE-MDI in Blue 1 livery departing an hour and a half later:

SE-MDI Blue 1 AT75 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Now back to reality and today, however today was quite remarkable even by Southend standards. First, a Yamal Airlines A320 departing an airtest:

EI-ELE Yamal A320 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Next an arrival which turned up 2am in the morning, an OLT Express A319 parked on stand. I assumed it had been repossessed, as OLT had continued flying, claiming it was in good financial health, despite the regional arm, operating ATRs going bust. A nice livery on the Airbus, which was incidently delivered all white from SEN earlier this year, Former easyjet G-EZIG:

SB-IBC OLT Exspress A319 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Soon after the Yamal A320 returned, as I tried out a rather nice new spot:

EI-ELE Yamal A320 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

A further arrival soon followed from Lasham, a Variglog Boeing 737-400F, arriving for further maintenance and painting for Europe Airpost.

N563AC Variglog B734 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Just as the Variglog taxied in, there was another surprise, the OLT Express A319 called for start up under an OLT Express callsign. Inccredibly strange, and soon after it departed to Sofia, perhaps the final flight for OLT Express!

SP-IBC OLT Express A319 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

So all in all quite an eventful day at Southend, I hope these are of interest.