A Morning at Birmingham Airport

[Vaqar Khan]

It was a cold (1 Centigrade) but bright Saturday morning today. I had to drive in to Birmingham and decided to take a detour through Birmingham International Airport. Here are some of the photographs from the trip.

The Control Tower


The Radar (note the cars in the long stay car park with a layer of frost)


KLM Boeing 737-800 (PH-BXC) departing for Amsterdam from Runway 33






Air France Airbus A319 (F-GRXE) departing for Paris








Rotate!




Runway Inspection


Contrails from an aircraft overflying BHX


Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (EI-FEH)






CFM56 Power Plant on Ryanair's Boeing 737-800s


More Photographs to follow....

[Vaqar Khan]

Some more photographs

Birmingham International Airport Fire & Rescue Service




Scandinavian Airlines (OY-KFG) Canadair CL-600 Regional Jet departing for Copenhagen






Flybe Embraer ERJ-195LR (G-FBEF) on stand at Birmingham Airport


Another Flybe Embraer ERJ-195LR (G-FBEI) arriving from Paris


Flybe De Havilland Canada Dash 8 (G-ECOA) departing for Cologne - Germany

Flybe De Havilland Canada Dash 8 (G-JEDW) in Flybe's purple livery arriving from Isle of Man




Clear for departure to Cologne from Runway 33


This photograph was taken from the other side of Runway 33 and shows Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (EI-ESO) on take off roll, departing for Malaga, Spain


VLM Fokker 50 parked at a remote stand


British Aerospace BAe 146-200 (G-RAJJ) private jet operated by Cello Aviation with a Monarch Airlines Airbus A321 in the background


Another Monarch Airlines Airbus A321 parked outside Monarch Maintenance Hanger

[Abrardh1]

Thanks for these top notch photo's

[Vaqar Khan]

Thank you for the kind comments Abrar.

[Vaqar Khan]

Visited Birmingham Airport on the afternoon of Sunday, 22 March 2015. Here are some photographs from the trip (quality not very good as at that time of the day the camera was facing the sun):

West Atlantic Boeing 767-200 Freighter (SE-RLA)





Air Explore Boeing 737-400 (OM-CEX)



Monarch Airlines Airbus A320





Air France Airbus A320 (F-GKXO)





Brussels Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-8 (G-ECOI)




Thomson Airways Boeing 737-800 (G-TAWM)







Thomson Airways Being 757-200



Ryanair Boeing 737-800



Turkmenistan Boeing 757-200







Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-300ER (AP-BHW) arriving from Islamabad

[mac777]

thanks for sharing these excellent pictures. interesting mix of airlines/fleet.

[Vaqar Khan]

Thanks mac777! Yes BHX does have a good mixture of long haul carriers, European scheduled airlines and charter flights to popular tourist destinations.

[Vaqar Khan]

A few aircraft movements at Birmingham International earlier this afternoon:

Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner













Air France Airbus A320









Flybe Bombardier Dash8 - Q400





Various Business Jets and Police Helicopter







Monarch Airlines Airbus A320







Ryanair Boeing 737-800







Emirates Airbus A380





























KLM City Hopper Embraer ERJ-190