Bumper Three Days at Southend!!!

Here’s quite a few photos from an excellent three busy days at Southend… The sun played ball most of the time as well!

Firstly the storms caused considerabe problems, and resulted in a few diversions. G-LCYD and G-LCYJ stayed at Southend on Friday night and departed early on Saturday morning:

G-LCYJ British Airways E190 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

G-CLYD British Airways E170 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

On Saturday, EI-FAV also made an appearance:

EI-FAV Aer Lingus Regional AT76 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Whilst very smart Icelandair 757 TF-FIY spent a couple of hours performing soem sort of test on the taxiway – in a perfect photo position of course!

TF-FIY Icelandair B752 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

A further surprise on Saturday was G-LCYJ diverting in, again. After departing Southend in the morning, it was running late on its London City flights so missed the Saturday lunchtime curfew. Once again the sun was out just in time: G-LCYD diverted in again too – but the photo isn’t worth posting!

G-LCYJ British Airways E190 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And finally to round off Saturday, the Titan Airways 737 G-ZAPZ departed to Stansted on a post maintenance test flight. The sun wasn’t so obliging this time!

G-ZAPZ Titan Airways B733 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

G-ZAPZ Titan Airways B733 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Sunday brought amazing weather and the departure of 4 diverted aircraft within 50 minutes, including a couple of Cityjet RJ85s – which are less common diversion visitors:

EI-RJN parked on stand by the old terminal (with sistership EI-RJZ just visible on the right).

EI-RJN Cityjet RJ85 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

EI-RJN leading the exodus back to London City, taxiing out for a remarkably quick takeoff roll from Runway 24:

EI-RJN Cityjet RJ85 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

G-LCYD departing for the second time in the weekend!

G-LCYD British Airways E170 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And finally EI-RJZ departs:

EI-RJZ Cityjet RJ85 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Another (long) shot of an Arann ATR, making a customarily steady landing rounded another excellent day!

EI-FAU REA AT76 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And finally today, Titan Airways 737 G-POWC was an early morning visitor for maintenance – once again the sun wasn’t very obliging:

G-POWC Titan Airways B733 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Despite the poor forecast, the gloom did not last. The sun appeared just in time for TF-FIY departing to Manchester for a swap over after maintenance:

TF-FIY Icelandair B752 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And finally, later on in the day, TF-FIZ arrived from Manchester for maintenance, really nice and low to Runway 24:

TF-FIY Icelandair B752 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

So all in all, a remarkable few days for Southend! I hope these are of interest.