Hi all. At about 5:50 this evening an Iberia 346 flew over my house on the normal aprroach line into LHR. I thought that it was wierd to see it… I didn’t know it was operating this route. Practise run perhaps?
The next flight that flew over was an Iberia 757… seemed a little weird?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
By: Mark L - 31st July 2003 at 21:06
Ah well, I must have been standing right next to that photographer then!
By: MSR777 - 31st July 2003 at 20:49
Nice one Andrew…Have just witnessed the far east rush heading out to CLN and beyond. Tonight they were 747-400s of KAL, ANA, JAL and BA, sometimes a Malaysian as well but not tonight and the usual Finnair A321, SAS MD80s and BA 319s heading to near Europe I guess. These new binos are brill……Could’nt get any regs though!
By: A330Crazy - 31st July 2003 at 20:46
Thanks for all the Info and pics guys. 🙂
By: Saab 2000 - 31st July 2003 at 20:11
I think the Iberia A340-600 was also flying Madrid- Tenerife flight so Heathrow doesn’t surprise me. If you look on A.net there is a picture of it landing at LHR.
By: Mark L - 31st July 2003 at 18:47
Well it certainly startled a few people yesterday, including me. The plane came in in the afternoon, with a 320 ahead of it and a 321 directly behind, so I’m not certain it even had passengers on at all. It taxiied around for a good 20 minutes before they parked her up too. EC-INO is the latest one, so it was most likely a running in flight.
I sort of got a photo of it, although it turns out the camera I was using had no film in. D’oh!
By: Ren Frew - 31st July 2003 at 17:52
Here’s a shot from A.net of EC-INO arriving in Mexico City on it’s first international operation for Iberia. The only date given is July 2003.
By: KabirT - 31st July 2003 at 07:03
I know most airlines in Europe try out there aircrafts on over-land routes first before making trans-atlantic or any long haul flight. Probably same with Iberia.
By: theplane - 30th July 2003 at 23:48
Remember that most european airlines will fly at least one BIG plane into LHR (usually at about 9 in the morning)…SWISS (MD11/A330), KLM (767 usually), etc do this… so maybe Iberia are just catching on? wouldnt be a^bad idea to just do a quick “turnaround” in MAD and send it on its way down south, since im guessing most of the passengers are transit to LatAm anyways…
and TAP used to fly the A340 into GVA back in 1994/95 on a regular basis, so it waouldnt really surprise me to see it at LHR
By: A330Crazy - 30th July 2003 at 23:29
Hey Neil, thanks for that, sounds as if its a very good reason. I managed to get the number off of the wing… EC-INO. The new binnoculars are proving themselves… so far managed to read 4 numbers of aircraft overflying my house… the other day I got 3B-NAU of Air Maritius.
Thanks Again
By: MSR777 - 30th July 2003 at 19:08
Possibly route familiarisation trip? That happened to me a couple of years back when I flew in a TAP Air Portugal A340 from LHR to LIS. At least that was what the Purser told me. I think that there was all of about 60 to 70 pax on board.
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