A very early morning run down south to London Heathrow to try and catch a couple of visiting Azerbaijan Government airliners that were transiting on their way to New York. B777-200LR 4K-AI001 and A340-600 4K-AI08 were both seen over by the Royal Suite at sun-up, then departing off 09R a short while later. A couple of bonus catches saw Saudia's B777-300 HZ-AK43 in the special "Formula E" colours and a long sought after Bahrain Royal Flight B767-400, A9C-HMH.
Arriving late morning on its first visit (and the first of their type to visit MAN), Kuwait Airways A321 Neo 9K-AQA is seen on approach to 23R on another wet weather day.
Making its first visit to Manchester, Freebird A320 TC-FHZ was operating for Pegasus on this wet and windy afternoon.
Whilst visiting for the arrival of the Korean Air BBJ I was able to catch up with a few subjects I was still after, Titan Airways A321 Neo G-OATW was operating for TUI, Royal Air Maroc B737-800 CN-ROC wears the latest colour scheme variation and a slack catch of Lufthansa City A319 D-ABGK.
Arriving on a very wet 23R early evening, Korean Air B737-700BBJ HL8222 was making its first visit to Manchester.
Manchester this morning, Eurowings A320 D-AEWM wearing the latest version of the special "Borussia Dortmund" scheme.
Arriving 23 Right ......
And departing off 23 Left an hour later .....
Juneyao Air's newest B787-9 B-226N wearing another variation of their scheme arrived at MAN early morning just after sunrise.
An Eleven Night Holiday to Las Vegas allowed a little runway therapy to be had at LAS along with a good day out to the Californian Desert Storage Airfields of Victorville, Palmdale, Lancaster and Mojave.
Photos have now been added to the 2025 Trips page at this link
Nice to catch the new colours FlyOne A320 ER-00011 departing in the sunshine this morning, this being the penultimate flight on their soon to be axed Chisinau service.
Departing 23L after making its first visit to Manchester this morning, Juneyao B787-9 B-226M wears yet another variation of their scheme. Sadly the light was pretty awful.
Arriving back from Amsterdam in the evening, Drake's B767-200 N767CJ is seen here after vacating runway 23R.
Making its first visit to Manchester wearing the "Bilbao FC" scheme, Vueling A320 EC-LUO was arriving from Barcelona early afternoon.
Having made the effort to go down to Birmingham recently to catch the great looking Air Drake B767-200, it was ironic that N767CJ would turn up at Manchester anyway! Arriving early afternoon it was great to see it parking on stand 22, just below the Terminal One Multi Storey Car Park!
Making its first visit to Manchester, Royal Jordanian A320 Neo JY-RAK wears their version of the OneWorld scheme.
A literal "flying visit" down to Birmingham early morning to catch a few photos of the great looking Air Drake B767-200 N767CJ, belonging to the Canadian Rapper Drake. The aircraft was parked up by the Elmdon terminal having arrived the evening before. Also parked up were B737-800F SU-SFY of Egyptian cargo carrier Air Master and B737-800F G-NPTB of West Atlantic.
Making its first visit to Manchester late afternoon, FlyOne A320 ER-00011 is the first to be seen here wearing their new colour scheme. Sadly the sun had disappeared shortly before it landed!
Indigo (India) has recently commenced a 3x per week Mumbai to Manchester service using a Norse B787-9, LN-FNC seen here has just landed on 05R mid morning.
Finally making its first appearance at MAN in the special "Help Alliance" scheme, Lufthansa A321 Neo D-AIEP arrived on 23R early evening.
After hearing the news that they are going to pull their Chisinau - Manchester service from September I thought I'd better make some effort to get a photo of the full colours A321, seen here departing 23L late morning is ER-00009.
Arriving early afternoon on an inbound charter from Islamabad, HiFly Malta A340-300 9H-TQZ is seen here over Cheadle on approach to 23R.
Maltese charter operator Luxwing made their first visit to MAN today when Dash8-Q4 9H-LWA arrived from Bari and departed to Avignon. The ex Flybe Dash is seen here on approach to 23R late morning.
Making its first visit to MAN since acquiring this superb special "National Basketball Association" scheme, A380 A6-EOD is seen here just about to arrive on 23R.
