Gatwick Yesterday (29th) + good news!

Well yesterday I went up to LGW minus A330Crazy who decided a job interview was more important :rolleyes: 😀 I turned up at the spectator gallery at 10:30 and was presented with all the mornings American arrivals, and about one hour later the first Easyjet A319 touched down on 26L. Sadly the viewing facilities at LGW are poor, and so I got only a 2 second glimpse of her, hardly enough time to take a photo! Also yesterday was the last day of BA ATR operations, and I managed to get some photos of the 2 remaining ones, before they are retired today.
Also, before I give you the list of things I saw I’ll give you the good news! While I was up there a group of “suits” gathered at around lunchtime. They were standing very close to myself and another gentleman I had met up there, and of course we earwigged their conversation! After having listened intently for 5-10 minutes I am now reasonably confident that the Gatwick Skyview WILL close, however this will only be in the short term. The closure will allow building work and expansion of the South terminal for passengers, but when the spectator gallery opens again next year it will have been expanded. We couldn’t quite work out how it was to be expanded as the only plan we saw was for emergency exits, however considering the gallery already has these, we came to the conclusion that it should be vertically rather than horizontally! However as I have said this is only based on snippets of the conversation we managed to hear, so please don’t take it as the gospel truth!

Right, here is the list of exciting sights:

OY-VKF A330 Mytravel leased from Premier
VP-BBR B752 Azerbaijan
F-GRGB Regional ERJ145
N101UN B733 Transaero
A6-EAG A330 Emirates
F-GJVX A320 Volare
G-FJEA/B B752 Flyjet
LY-AGZ B733 Lithuanian
N401JR DC10 DAS
Z-WPE B762 Zimbabwe
SX-BOC B717 Olympic Aviation (My first 717!)
EC-IOU B738 Futura
OO-DWB RJ100 SN Brussels
OY-CNR A320 Mytravel? All white
C-GPTS A330 Air Transat
C-GATM L1011 Air Transat
ES-ABC B735 Estonian Air
LN-BUG B737 Braathens
OY-APR/B B735 Maersk
D-BCRS ATR42 European Air Express
HB-JZA A319 Easyjet Swiss

Mark