We were on a remote Stand at T4, so after a short bus trip, I got to take a pic of boarding A319-131 G-EUOF, which was operating BA754 to BSL that afternoon (I gather from other threads that the aircraft was diverted to LGW on the way back due to Thunderstorms last Thursday).
I was in row 15 this time, so missed out on the legroom, although it was still passable.
Takeoff was from 27L, and on the way there, I got some more shots, a BA 777 also heading to 27L, Air India 747 in teh distance, as well as B-Med A321 G-MEDG on 27L. Also on 27L was bmi RJ G-RJXA, which I hadn’t expected to see at Heathrow, being such a small aircraft, and considering the gold dust quality of slots.
We then overtook KLM 737 PH-BTB, which was also taxi-ing from terminal 4 to 27L
There was also a BA 744 on the far side of the runway
After a pretty quick takeoff, looking out to the left, I managed to get a pretty good pic of the Southern half of Heathrow as we banked left.
As we continued our climb, I wondered just who exactly thinks that Stansted is in Kent?
It was a pretty uneventful flight, so I had some time to get worked up about my favourite bete noir, the All Day Deli.
But eventually, I just sat back and enjoyed the vivid colours outside
Before commencing our descent over the forests of Alsace towards Basel
Having landed on 16, with the Breaks pretty hard on, due to the displaced threshold (which work is however finished again now), so I had some difficulty getting the camera straight to get a picture of DHL 757-236 G-BIKP
Leaving me with just one last photo opportunity as we turned onto the Apron, with hello MD-90-30ER HB-JIE parked on Stand, alongside African Safari Airways A310 5Y-VIP.
Hope youse enjoy!
So, for the return trip on Thursday morning, flying on BA1479, I’d checked in online the night before, and managed to get myself the overwing exit row. Check out the leg room. 🙂 The flight was operated by A319-131 G-EUPB
As we taxied towards the holding point for 23, I squeezed a couple of shots of G-BVVK off.
Also at the Terminal was Aer Lingus A320 EI-DEB
BA A320-111 G-BUSE was parked by the BA Maintenance facility.
There were some pretty impressive Cloud formations as we climbed
And with Airshow displaying maps all the way down, time seemed to fly by, as did the cuppa.
Anyway, I mentioned football grounds before, and we passed over one or two as we made our approach to 27R at Heathrow. I knew Ashburton Grove was close to Highbury, but I didn’t know it was this close…
a closer look at just the brand new Emirates Stadium
it is nice to see London, though, but don’t ask me to pick out landmarks, you’ll need to get locals to do it, I try to avoid the place as much as possible.
But that place over there, I can name. Still don’t understand why it takes so long to build it.
Having landed, I took a couple of pics, bmi A321 G-MIDK and EI A321 EI-CPE, notably.
After parking, I had a quick opportunity to snap a picture of the aircraft that’d carried me down to London in 54 minutes.
I had been hoping to get some pics at LHR as I got the transfer bus to terminal 4, but the Bus had BA logos all over the windows, and was too close to get decent photos without a fisheye lens, anyway.
I did manage to get a bit of a video as we lifted off. It was a little bumpy, climbing through the heat layers.
http://www.youtube.com/?v=gQGa65haH0I
In response to my question after my last set of easyJet flights about whether or not they’d done away with the Slimline stuff, it appears it’s only on the Swiss based aircraft this is the case. Hardly surprising, no one here has heard of the stuff.
There were some Thunderstorms forecast over the German/Dutch border, so we skirted around it and headed straight out over the North Sea.
As we commenced our descent, there were some threathening looking clouds
But it soon cleared, and left nothing more worring looking than Fir Park, Motherwell, the first of several Football stadia I got pics of on approach that Week.
We came in over the West End, landing on 23.
As we taxi-ed in, I saw easyJet A319 G-EZEK at the International Pier, so I assumed we’d head there to join her.
There’d been a KLM cityhopper Fokker70 holding short as we’d landed, and, being sat on the Port side of the Aircraft, I saw it lift off during our Taxi.
Surprisingly, however, we taxi-ed to the LoCo pier, where the crew informed us they had 8 minutes to turn the Aircraft around before it’s subsequent Domestic mission, and we’d be bussed round to International arrivals.
While awaiting disembarkation, I managed to get a couple more pics, Loganair Saab SF340B G-LGNE and Air Contractors ATR72 EI-SLG
It took ages to reclaim our luggage, as it, too, had to be bussed over.
I’ll go into the return flights later.
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