Blue Air starts Dublin.

Blue Air the Romanian carrier started its twice weekly service into Dublin the afternoon with B737-800 YR-BID.The service will be on Monday and Wendesday and arrive at 17.15.

Blue Air Transport Aerian S.A is a low-cost airline based in Bucharest, Romania. It started operations in December 2004 and operates services to European destinations. Its main base is Bucharest Baneasa.The airline recently focused also on other Romanian airports, such as Arad, Cluj-Napoca, Bacău and Sibiu.

The airline has been characterised by rapid expansion, a result of the deregulation of the air industry in Europe in 1992 and the success of its low cost business model. Blue Air is one of the largest airlines in Eastern Europe in terms of passenger numbers.

At its founding, it also operated a domestic Bucharest-Timişoara flight, though this was discontinued in March 2005 due to low demand and competition from TAROM as well as rail travel. Blue Air began domestic flights to Cluj Napoca International Airport from Bucharest on 29 October 2006, operated with a Boeing 737.


The Blue Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 17 January 2010):[1]




Blue Air Fleet Aircraft In Fleet Orders Notes

Boeing 737-300 3 0 Being phased out: 2012-2013

Boeing 737-400 2 0 Being phased out: 2015-2016

Boeing 737-500 1 0 Exit from service: November 2015

Boeing 737-800 4 3 Replacing: Boeing 737-300

Boeing 737-900ER 0 3 Replacing: Boeing 737-400 and Boeing 737-500

Saab 340 2 0 Operated by Direct Aero Services

Total 12 6



At 17 January 2010, the average age of the Blue Air fleet is 14.9 years.[2]



The company is currently replacing its 737 classic fleet with 737 NG aircraft.

EI-DOY

EI-DOY, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

The EADS Socata Rallye was a light aircraft manufactured in France during the 1960s, originally by Morane-Saulnier as the MS.880. It was eventually replaced in production by the Socata TB series in the 1970s, but continued in production in Poland under licence by PZL as the PZL Koliber.


EI-DOY was seen at Weston today.


Airframe Info
Manufacturer: Eads-pzl, Warsawia-oke, Cie S.a
Model: PZL-, KOLIBER, 150A
Construction Number (C/N): 04940072
Number of Seats: 2
Number of Engines: 1

C-GFHR

C-GFHR(1), originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Manufacturer: Bombardier
Model: BD-100-1A10
Year built: 2003
Construction Number (C/N): 20016
Number of Seats: 8
Number of Engines: 2
Engine Manufacturer and Model: Honeywell AS907-1-1A
Also Registered As: N777VC
Dublin in the sun and a very nice biz jet does it get any better.

SAS CRJ

Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200LR

                        
                              This CRJ was a visiter to Dublin this morning opperating for SAS.
                                             Shots show it landing and lining up runway 28.

Air France Cargo

Air France had its weekly visit with B747F F-GIUA this morning.Picture shows head shot of same.

N800KS

N800KS, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

BBJ,s are nice visiters to any airport so when this one arrived into Dublin from the States it was great.
Manufacturer: Boeing
Model: 737-7BC
Year built: 2000
Construction Number (C/N): 30782
Number of Seats: 149
Number of Engines: 2
Engine Manufacturer and Model: Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES
Owned by Aej Services Llc

EI-STA

Ok were do I start?

This shot shows a Europe Airpost B737 in an Irish reg working for Air Contactors

It is ex G-THOG of Tompson

Anyone has info on this frame please contact me.

Shot shows it lifting from 28 Dublin as the ABR001 to Lourdes.

Erik Bye

Norwegian Air Shuttle sent in a first timer today in the sharp of  LN-DYA.




                           
 Photos are taken of aircraft lining up runway 28 Dublin.

Model: 737-8JP/W

Year built: 2009

Construction Number (C/N): 39162
                                                      Jp Airline Fleets International 2009/2010
Line Number (L/N): 2994

Number of Seats: Unknown

Number of Engines: 2

Loganair Saab 340 was leased in today to work for Aer Arran

and when last seen was working Aer Arran REA23CK .

Air Scotland

Air Scotland Citation G-HEBJ arrived into Dublin today for a quick stop and of again.

G-OCJZ

Today also seen this Citation G-OCJZ in Dublin.

G-LORR

G-LORR, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Weston had the above visited today.

Airframe Info
Manufacturer: New Piper Aircraft Inc
Model: PIPER PA-28-181.Year built: 1996
Construction Number (C/N): 2843037

Qatat C-17 visit to Aldergrove

Mark Shields is thanked for his photos.



Photos were taken with a "point-n-shoot" camera at the threshold of runway 25 at Aldergrove. It is rumoured that the C17 is taking "escalator-type aircraft steps" out to Qatar for a member of the Qatari Royal Family whom is having difficulty mounting the standard airstairs to his private airliner!!

Canon BP511A 1390mAh Lithium Ion Battery Pack for Select Digital Cameras and CamcordersCanon EOS 50D 15.1MP Digital SLR Camera with EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom LensCanon BG-E2N Battery Grip for Canon 20D, 30D, 40D & 50D Digital SLR Cameras

Cork gets a lift.

Many thanks to Paul Daly for the shots and the info.




Falcon 900EX N501MK was a visitor to Cork from DUB yesterday.

Gulf 550 G-JCBB mad 2 trips to Cork yesterday from EMA.

Super Puma HB-XVY of Heli-Swiss was a visitor to Cork today. It was in Cork to Lift a digital antenna on the Cork / Kerry Mountains. The helicopter arrived from Birmingham and departed to Cherbourg. From Cherbourg it will depart to Paris on Monday to do some lifting in the Paris city centre and back to birmingham after that.

Cork Today

The news from Cork Airport is with many thanks to Paul Daly.

NEWS
Apparently Super Puma HB-XVY is due into Cork later today. N501MK DA900EXdue at 1745 out 1845 and G-JCBB Glf 550 due 1645 out 1730.

Beech 200 G-FPLD of COBHAM FLIGHT INSPECTION LTD, previously Fight Precision UK, was in Cork on the 22nd and 23rd of March and is pictured on stand 3 at Cork.

Aer Arann have leased Scott Airways Dornier 328 G-BYHG to operate for them this week and the aircraft still wears basic Blue Island colours of the Channel islands. The aircraft is seen departing Cork as the RE624 to Dublin.

N10HZ

N10HZ, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Its getting quieter and quieter in Dublin these days with people jumping out of there cars and getting camera ready for an Easyjet from the hangers.So if you are wondering why I am putting up this Falcon 900 N10HZ owned by Heitz and a very regular visiter to Dublin its because I have nothing else to show you.
As the song goes (Things can only get better) fingers crossed.

G-EZJY

G-EZJY, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Easyjet B737 G-EZJY was seen leaving Dublin this morning after a couple of week in the hangers for mantenance.

N935UW

N935UW, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Its nice to see this US Airways B757 N935UW in the Star Alliance colour scheme.

OY-RJF

OY-RJF, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

SAS used this Cimber Air CRJ100 this morning on the SK537.
Seen landing 28 in the sun.

Weston Today

Weston this morning had a couple of interesting visiters in the shape of the following.

G-CDXK is a Diamond Da42 Twin Star. The only thing of interest about it was its delivery date which was 6/6/06. I will let you make up your own mind.

The PC 12 above was also on the ramp and this manx registered aircraft M-SAIL is ex HB-FSH and owned by Grant Glenn Gordon.

N6452S

N9452S, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

Seen today was this Hawker N6452S.

G-TOYM

G-TOYM, originally uploaded by Colins plane pics.

The weekends ruby did not turn up much. This BMI Baby B737 G-TOYM was doing a charter from Wales and is seen lining up 28.
The only other flights of note were a couple of Monarch flights with A321s.

Aer lingus regional

Aer Lingus Regional have now get two of the three ATR 72 painted in the new scheme

The Shots show EI-REL and EI-REO at Dublin this morning.

The third is in Shannon getting painted.

Its a very nice scheme but as always will be boring in a couple of weeks.

Just the way it goes in the ever changing airline business.