Well here’s my latest shots. Flew Taba-Egypt to Leeds/Bradford. In an Astreaus Boeing 737-700NG. Flight Took about 6 hours in total.

Astraeus will be operating this route for real from October.

Take-off from Taba

Flying over the desert with the red sea in the back ground.

Over flying Cario

Heading out towards Cyprus

Just passing Rhodes

Over flying the Austrian Alps

Heading over the top of Amsterdam for the North Sea.

Final Approach to LBA’s runway 32

Landed LBA’s runway 32. Coming to a stop short of Alpha 1

Taxi-ing pasted a busy apron at LBA.

Heres a few more shots from another test flight from this morning. flew a Excel Airways Boeing 737-400 from its new base at Humberside on a short Positioning sector over to Cardiff Airport.

Well heres my first lot of pic’s since i reloaded fs9 back into my computer. Not posted in here for a while.

Anyway for a test flight i took a Flybe/Astreaus B737-300 G-STRE on a short domestic run from Leeds/Bradford down to Southampton.

Anyway here are 5 shots i took on departure and in flight. did’nt get any landing shots as i forgot after doing a visual approach.

Bmi regional could actully make a 4th daily rotation work at LBA using the CWL Slots at CDG. The Embrear 145 aircraft that use to work the Jersey rotation could work an late morning-mid-day return sector.

the bmi embrear fleet work as follows at LBA

MONDAY TO FRIDAY

AIRCRAFT 1 ERJ145
LBA-EDI-LBA
LBA-EDI-LBA
LBA-EDI-LBA
LBA-EDI-LBA
AIRCRAFT 2 ERJ145
LBA-GLA-LBA
LBA-CDG-LBA (This use to operate the Daily JER Run)
LBA-CDG-LBA
LBA-CDG-LBA
AIRCRAFT 3 ERJ145
LBA-CDG-LBA
LBA-GLA-LBA
LBA-GLA-LBA
AIRCRAFT 4 ERJ145
LBA-BRU-LBA
LBA-ORK-LBA
LBA-BRU-LBA
LBA-BRU-LBA

LBA – Taba-Egypt by Astraeus

So that’s another new route been operated by the LBA based aircraft and Crews. They just can’t get enough of new exciting destinations by Astraeus at LBA.

Is it a first? Egypt available from the Yorkshire region??? Because I know that Thomsonfly’s flights to Egypt from DSA got cancelled for this winter

They (Jet2.com) have gone to last resorts getting this aircraft to make the Manchester base work. It’s a well know fact its struggling at MAN. Compared operations else where in the north.

Just look at all the expansion from its new base up the road at Blackpool and other the hill at its original base at Leeds.

Jet2 don’t want to be seen dropping routes from Manchester. It’ll make them look bad. So they have got an aircraft in to operate the flights instead of operating it with there own B737-300’s

End of the day them Gatwick flights would have been better been operated from its LBA base.

By the way i have been told some LBA-Dussledorf flights have been upgraded to Boeing B757-200 instead of the smaller B737-300’s

Hi

Anyone noticed the problems up at our beloved airport this evening. The Arrival boards says it all.

T34714 ABERDEEN 1630 FLIGHT DIVERTED TO HUMBERSIDE
BD406 EDINBURGH 1705 FLIGHT DIVERTED TO TEESIDE
BD496 PARIS CDG 1705 FLIGHT DIVERTED TO TEESIDE
MYT354 TENERIFE 1705 FLIGHT DIVERTED MANCHESTER
T34705 SOUTHAMPTON 1710 CANCELLED
BD614 BRUSSELS 1715 LANDED 18:14
BD295 GLASGOW 1725 FLIGHT DIVERTED TO TEESIDE
BD418 HEATHROW 1815 LANDED 18:35
WOW486 NEWQUAY 1830 NOW DUE 18:40
LS232 BARCELONA 1915 NOW DUE 19:17
BE733 BELFAST CITY 1930 EXPECTED 19:30
BD408 EDINBURGH 1955
LS328 BELFAST INTL 2000
LS266 MALAGA 2010 EXPECTED 20:20
BD297 GLASGOW 2015
T34716 ABERDEEN 2015
KL1543 AMSTERDAM 2020 EXPECTED 20:25
T34707 SOUTHAMPTON 2025
BD616 BRUSSELS 2050
BD498 PARIS CDG 2100 CANCELLED
LS206 AMSTERDAM 2100
BD420 HEATHROW 2150
FR156 DUBLIN 2150
LS224 TENERIFE 2340
BY740B BRIDGETOWN 0450

And the departure boards as follows

FR155 DUBLIN 1630 DEPARTED 17:27
LS205 AMSTERDAM 1800 DEPARTED 18:12
LS327 BELFASTINTERNATIONAL 1750 DEPARTED 18:18
T34704 SOUTHAMPTON 1420 GATE CLOSED
T34715 ABERDEEN 1715 COACHES TO HUMBERSIDE 17:20
BD407 EDINBURGH 1735 COACH TO TEESIDE
BD497 PARIS CDG 1735 CANCELLED
T34706 SOUTHAMPTON 1740 DELAYED
BD615 BRUSSELS 1745 GATE CLOSED
BD296 GLASGOW 1755 COACHES TO TEESIDE
MYT353 TENERIFE 1820 DIVERTED COACHES TO MANCHESTER
WOW487 BRISTOL 1850 DELAYED EST DEP 1900 DELAYED EST DEP 1900
BD419 HEATHROW 1855 Proceed to Gate
BE734 BELFAST CITY 1955 CHECKING IN A2-A3 Proceed to lounge
FR157 DUBLIN 2215