West Air Sweden operate the Fedex Paris CDG “hot standby” aircraft now from CDG, operating wherever fedex require them, whether it be due tech aircraft, excess freight or even to carry a small spare part for say an A310 or MD11 tech in europe. This is possably the most likely explanation, however i know there has been a lot of Fedex contract shuffles going on recently, Emerald lost the 2 standbys for CDG-VIE, CDG-PRG and also gained MXP-PSA.

Sad to see – i almost flew on her, but was changerd to another few sectors on TF-ATE instead – last i heard of that it was in US storage – presumable going the same way!

how dare you say that – i flew em first!!! Good piccys too!

G-OPFW is operated in “Skynet” Parcelforce colours,
G-BEJE used to be operated in “Skynet” Royal Mail colours, before her retirement in 1997. She was use dwidley in the early 1990s for royal mail advertising on TV.

Other customer aircraft of Emeralds include G-OSOE in Securicor Omega, G-BVOU in Lynx and G-ORAL in Reeds.

Brit World also used to have a Viscount in Parcelforce colours too…

I was surprised at how busy BHX was when i visited for my first time on a Sat in Junewith work – had a couple of hours there to potter around – great variety of stuff there! Was a shame Duo had ceised ops by then tho, and all the aircraft had dissapeared too. I had only managed to log two of them at MAN or a BHX divert day, but thats a differant story!!!

Wow! Certainly some variety in there, and with the expansion of the ryanair operation it set to continue growing again!

TF-ATE was an aircraft i had the pleasure of jollying on several times in oct 2002, an ex JAL aircaft which at the time was operated by Air Atlanta out of Manchester. Must have been one of very few -100 pax aircraft flying at the time!