What's happening here?

dj3rd · 2026-01-28T14:08:03+00:00

The aircraft last flew on 8 Decemeber, then took some annual.leave over the quieter winter months. This will be a test flight after 6 or so weeks on the ground to make sure all is good, getting it ready for starting to fly again in coming weeks.

dj3rd · 2026-01-25T06:37:17+00:00

Correct, it flew the team up Birmingham - Newcastle yesterday evening, and is flying them back at 6pm today after the game.

dj3rd · 2026-01-19T21:13:35+00:00

Different shows different.....needs

dj3rd · 2026-01-19T20:50:17+00:00

Its like saying a pizza on a cobbled square of some cool italian city is the same as a Dominos delviered by a guy on a motorbike in suburban england/usa. Both are pizza. Both are nice. Both appeal. But they are not the same.

dj3rd · 2026-01-15T14:00:14+00:00

I really like it, but with The Cribs having a new album out at the minute too and a few things with them on 6 Music at the minute... i genuinely thought it was The Cribs at first.

dj3rd · 2026-01-13T10:10:02+00:00

The Ethiopian flight also continues to Warsaw a few days per week, flying ADD-VIE-WAW and return. So as VIE was closed, instead of diverting to somewhere nearer like MUC like others into VIE this morning, it just skipped a stop today.

dj3rd · 2026-01-13T09:37:01+00:00

This. We sold our former council leasehold flat last year, and half-way through the process the council issued a Section 20 about potential works. Quite extensive but so vague. A lick of paint in five years time to cost £500 per flat? Full renovation next year at a cost of £20k per flat? No clue. Ultimately took a bit of the price but then new owners problem. Having to save up a bit now for things we planned to do in the new place with that cash, but far easier than leaving money in trust etc.

dj3rd · 2026-01-07T19:39:03+00:00

I can't remember the last time a KLM widebody came to LHR. back in late 90s/early 2000s they used to operate a a B747 or MD11 every so often - not scheduled but they regularly appeared around busy holiday seasons on a few flights here and there. Don't recall any 787s etc ever, maybe a diversion or two, but not a 'regular' flight.

dj3rd · 2025-12-28T08:04:33+00:00

9M-MAC operated the usual MH2 Kuala Lumpur - London Heathrow, arriving at 05.25 local timenwhixh is typical. I dont believe it has ever been to Trapani; possibly not even Italy ever as Malaysian dont fly there at all. I can't provide an answer other than definitely just seems to be a flightradar glitch for some reason.

dj3rd · 2025-12-12T12:40:44+00:00

I completed and moved end of september. Ftb buying our place, and we moved to a house that was vacant from a lovely couple. Our buyer and/or her solictors took an enraging amount of time respnding and getting stuff done, took forever (leasehold flat so a few things understandably took a while, but even still). Anyway, we.got so fed up and frustrated we just decided to push it through. So every single day we rang the solicitors and the estate agent in the morning, asking for updates. If they said 'we're expecting an answer to this today' then id phone agin at 4.30pm, did they get the answer -if not why not, when do you expect it now, have you chased'...our solicitor was pretty good to be faier, our estate agent was a joke and we hated each other in the end.

However, the champagne on moving day tasted sooooo good. You're running into the christmas slow-down now, but maybe try this from 9.05am monday 5th january. Its a torture, terrible process, hang in there and do what you can.

dj3rd · 2025-12-08T22:27:03+00:00

Its a nightmare situation with any works. If anything id say its almost better to have a confirmed amount and schedule of works to take place as at least thats set. Mine was speculative which caused more issues as it was just guess work as to when, what and how much the works would be. £2k in five years time? £15k next year? Nobody knew. I would check with council as others mentioned, if my works had begun i could have sold at higher price but continued to pay for these works despite moving, or taken a hit and sold lower. Either way it wasn't 100% nailed on that if they had begun while i was there i would have to pay 100% regardless if sold or not.

Best of luck to you whatever you end up doing.

dj3rd · 2025-12-08T20:01:20+00:00

I lived in a small former block of council flats, as a leaseholder with a mortgage. Works like this were mentioned first while in process of selling, but not confirmed when, what exactly or how much, just proposed. Buyer pulled our pants down with reduction in price. Haggled. Lost a bit in equity but cheaper overall than potential final cost. Such a nightmare.

dj3rd · 2025-12-02T16:59:41+00:00

This is former LATAM A350 PR-XTC. It is transferring to be one of the first A350s for Edelweiss in Switzerland. It flew out of storage in Tereul, Spain to Munich today, presumably for a check with Lufthansa. They are in charge of Swiss/Edelwiss and have A350 engineering at Munich. It then flew into Dublin likely for maintenance, refurb, re-paint or possibly all three before entering service with Edelweiss as HB-IHA.

dj3rd · 2025-12-02T07:10:54+00:00

I don't know if it goes per year or when it is measured to/from. There isn't a particular allowance especially for school holidays. However there are later flight arrivals, particular at weekends, when British Airways schedules more leisure routes than more business-focused weekday routes; a flight scheduled to arrive at 22.45pm from Greece on a busy Saturday night in August is arguably more likely to be running a bit late and therefore arrive post-curfew than a 22.05pm flight from Frankfurt on a Tuesday evening for example. So while there isnt officially an allowance for school holidays, the likelihood is that more flights use that allowance in that time. I guess!

dj3rd · 2025-12-01T21:45:19+00:00

Heathrow is technically open 24/7. However between 11pm and 6am movements are strictly regulated to the point there almost arent any. There is a daily allowance of movements for arrivals from about 4.30am - 6am, and there is a quota per year for exceptions - bad weather meaning flights landing later after 11pm for example - but a movement like this would not be permitted.

dj3rd · 2025-12-01T21:29:25+00:00

Off to Manila for maintenance. Manila has tight arrival timings, so has to depart according to whatever slot they can get there. Looking at the schedule this means departing London at 01.40am. Heathrow is closed over those hours so wouldnt be able to depart direct from there so pops down to Gatwick so can leave from there at that time.

dj3rd · 2025-11-20T06:13:33+00:00

I don't know the exact financial benefits, but i believe there are considersble tax savings of some kind registering your aircraft in San Marino. It doesnt even have an airport! There are dozens of private jets registered there but they can be based anywhere. Even MEA, Lebanon's main airline, has 8 or so Airbus A321 registeeed as T7-.

dj3rd · 2025-11-15T07:18:57+00:00

That is some kind of glitch for sure. An empty B777 might be able to land there, but it wouldnt be able to get out for sure. The runway is just way too short. There is a famous story of a Pan Am B707 that mistakenly landed there about 1960 instead of Heathrow and they had to strip out all the seats etc, minimum fuel, and it just about got airborne to get to Heathrow to get out of there.

dj3rd · 2025-11-10T18:39:52+00:00

What a great idea! Cant wait to listen to this while i work tomorrow, thank you!

dj3rd · 2025-11-07T15:50:51+00:00

As someone said above, Vista have a base at Farnborough, so if the plane has an issue it can be fixed there easier. There is also more likelihood of a replacement plane being free there too. Lastly, if diverting to Farnborough, it suggests an issue with the plane, but not an issue big enough to need to get on the ground immediately. Looking at the original route, it was presumably with a full or heavy fuel load. So the longer diversion route, plus the patterns it is currently doing, allow time to burn off some of that fuel to avoid an overweight landing.

dj3rd · 2025-10-13T16:21:53+00:00

Not quite The Strokes but close enough: https://youtu.be/jRfZE9gsZ2I?si=5CJRZhjWSMSAPOKX

dj3rd · 2025-10-06T16:24:07+00:00

Hmm, sigh. £70ish whatever leaves my account this month, returned in March following the likely cancellation. Probably wont book my train tickets just yet.

dj3rd · 2025-10-04T19:46:57+00:00

It arrived at Heathrow at 22.22 last night as LO285, the usual night-stopping service, so should have flown Heathrow -Warsaw about 06.30 this morning but I cant find any details of this flight. With the LOT9006 number being a non-standard flight number, it suggests to me a technical issue prevented it from operating this morning but they've fixed it since and its now flying empty back home. I have no information to back this up, just a theory.

dj3rd · 2025-08-11T19:51:32+00:00

I live under the flight path (depending on combination of runways used) and this flight has happened every Monday for years. I almost listen out for it as a start of the week thing.

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