I had a very good 2 hours at Heathrow on Tuesday last week – here’s some of the results…
Royal Air Maroc 737, with Arabic titles on this side…
CN-ROU Royal Air Maroc at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Air Astana 757 from Almaty – an old friend which I;ve photographed at Southend before!
P4-FAS Air Astana B752 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Air China A330:
B-6113 Air China A332 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
A Tunisair B737-600 was an unusual visitor, in place of the usual Airbus:
TS-IOK Tunisair B736 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Now all 5 daily Emirates flights into Heathrow are operated by the A380:
A6-EDI Emirates A388 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Transaero 737:
EI-EUY Transaero B735 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
The Malaysian A380 has now also placed the 747 on the second daily flight. Can’t quite understand why the front third is perfectly clean and the rest of the aircraft filthy!
9M-MNB Malaysia Airlines A388 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
SAS 737 in the Star Alliance scheme:
LN-RRL Scandinavian Airlines (Star Alliance) B738 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Vueling A320 in special commemorative scheme to mark 50 million passengers, it’s in English on the other side:
EC-JZQ Vueling A320 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
The very smart Korean 777:
HL7574 Korean Air B772 at Heathrow EGLL. by AeroPics, on Flickr
LOT 737:
SP-LLG LOT Polish Airlines B734 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Ghastly new Finnair liveried A319:
OH-LVB Finair A319 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
The Arik A340-500 from Lagos leased from HiFly -amazed this aircraft is still flying for Arik with their financial problems:
CS-TFX Arik Air A345 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
Excellent to see a British built airliner in the form of the Brussels RJ100. The morning flight is operated by the A319.
OO-DWF Brussels Airlines RJ1H at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
And the KLM Fokker 70 is also a nice sight – must be the smallest scheduled airliner into Heathrow after the loss of bmi Regional.
PH-JCT KLM Cityhopper F.70 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
And to finish an ‘arty’ shot of a SAS 737 in the flare above 27R.
SE-REU Scandinavian Airlines B737 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr
I hope these are of interest – fantastic variety in just 2 hours.
By: AeroPics - 3rd March 2013 at 21:13
Thanks Culpano and hope you have a bit more luck with the sun in Tenerife!
By: Culpano - 1st March 2013 at 22:33
Great shots. Love the last shot. Nice sunshine as well. In Tenerife at moment and it’s been raining half the time !
By: AeroPics - 1st March 2013 at 21:58
Thanks MSR777, Matt-100, Doors4 and EGTC – glad you like them.
Excellent explanation for the dirty A380 Matt-100 – that makes a lot of sense.
Doors4 -unfortunately its impossible to determine the load factors from the CAA statistics as there a few airlines on the LHR-DXB route – but the 77 ooperated flight must have been doing relatively well for it to be upgraded to the A380. Now how will Emirates be able to expand further from LHR – be interesting to see whether they acquire any more slots.
By: EGTC - 28th February 2013 at 00:52
Nice set. Very good indeed 🙂
Doors4, perhaps you’re thinking of the likes or Luxair or Adria? They all dropped LHR some years ago.
By: Doors4 - 27th February 2013 at 22:43
Great set of pic’s.
I had it in my head that LOT had dropped London.
I wonder what EK’s load factors are like on 5 A380s to and from DXB every day.
By: Matt-100 - 26th February 2013 at 18:58
Fantastic set 🙂 The ‘filth’ on the Malaysian A380 looks like de-icing fluid stains, although why only the rear two thirds are dirty beats me.
Maybe the forward section is made of a different composite material which is less prone to static charging, so less dust is attracted to it during flight? Just a thought.
And you are correct, the Korean Air 777 does look very smart.
By: MSR777 - 26th February 2013 at 18:43
Of interest? Definately, great pics. I love the Malaysian A380, and the Arik 340.
More pics like these anytime:) Thanks for posting them.
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