Just looked on the CX website and put in for a MAN-HKG departing on Thursday 6th April. The options were splendiforus: shuttle to LHR and non-stop ex LHR! No sign of a MAN-SVO-HKG routing.

Now what would be interesting would be if BA decided to codeshare the service…

1st BY Rovaniemi service I’ve seen was today’s BY835B which was operated by G-BYAK.

If you wanted to know which Thomsonfly B757 operated a LGW-TFS flight on a particular date; the acars search function will give you this info.

Not seen too many BY 757s in ACARS listings – seen 767s though. However, it’s not just locos + regionals that might not have ACARS, aircraft within the same fleet do not e.g. todays FCA267D to MAN was operated by G-OOBF (as confirmed on a couple of ops frequencies and on that site) but have not tied up FCA725D though.

David

Snow and Manchester are words not generally connected in the same sentence (though for some unknown reason, another form of precipitation is?); the last time I can remember some really serious snow was back in 1981 when it was feet deep; however, all it takes is 3 to 6 inches covering runways to cause a bit of havoc at any British airport!

Those people who seem to think someone else ought to have got that donated liver should remember that you do need to have a good match between the person who needs it and the actual liver. If that liver was not suitable for anyone else than George Best then I assume it would have been “died” a 2nd death.

MAN might not have terminal/gate/ground handling capacity

Might be something to do with poor viz – when I left for work, it was 175m with sky obscured and RVRs around the 400m mark and ATC were giving aircraft expected approach times some 20 to 25 minutes after they made initial contact with approach.

CO has sent the BRS 757 to MAN on one occasion within the last couple of weeks.

David

Having looked at the TAFs and STAFs for around the country, tonight and tomorrow could be “interesting”! The BBC forecast shows the fog south of Birmingham covering almost the entire southeast and spreading to the west to a bit past Bristol and a large chunk of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to be fog-laden until well into the afternoon (the forecast only went up to 3pm).

at least a couple more divs to LBA = SDR05B (from MAN) and SDR15E (from BHX) – both City Airlines from Gothenburg. Not too sure if XLA7037 is also a div from MAN: it should be as the XLA charters in winter from here normally begin with “7”.

One for MAN= BCY140L (or AF5140) from BHX, whilst LHR grabbed the UZB211 from BHX.