So excited.

[511Flyer]

We live under one of the Heathrow flight paths, and this afternoon we saw two aircraft. We saw one yesterday too.

[Scorpius]

Please send a picture. I have forgoten what a tubeliner looks like.

Nev

[Vancouver]

Huh! That is nothing, saw a garbage truck in my road this very morning.

[Globitz]

Living 1 mile north of the centre of Heathrow, you wouldnt believe how nice the last few days have been.

Sadly I am missing the activities in the air but the lack of traffic is sheer bliss.........

[simondix]

I am getting the cargo flights over her as they can now take a shortcut. See the odd Ryanair flight but we wont talk about that.

[Charlie Bravo]

I watched a Ryanair 737 depart with interest the other day at work.
I felt so ashamed

Luckily we had two C17's depart yesterday which made up for it.




Aviation is certainly a different world right now. STN usually handles 80,000 passengers a day and yesterday's inbound figure (on a Ryanair from Dublin) was just 11.
I imagine the outbound number was similar.

[simondix]

Yes we had a C17 look as if it was going into Brum the the other day. I wonder if it was bringing bits in for the Hospital they are building at the NEC.

[511Flyer]

Yesterday we saw an Emirates A350 going in to Heathrow, and it departed later for Doha.

Saw it fly over, and confirmed on the radar.

[Globitz]

It slowly apperars to be getting a little busier at Heathrow. Went for a couple of walks around the perimeter over the weekend and although nowhere near its usual standards there were quite a few movements. Quite a lot of A350 activity was noticeable!

[TSR2]

The virgin and BA A350’s seem to have been fairly consistent and with the 787’s seem to be getting more routes, I’m guessing due to better fuel burn? I think most of the older 777 will be bean cans soon.