11/06/1998

[kirmingtonuser]

1998 was a year of significant change at HUY following the acquisition of AirUK by KLM. The name was changed to KLMuk and the airline's sole purpose was to feed the Amsterdam hub. Other Stansted routes were hived off by creating a low-fares airline called Buzz, which produced losses and was sold to Ryanair.
KLMuk dropped the HUY/ABZ route, resulting in the resurrection of Eastern Airways with the assistance of the Icelandic airline Islandsflug and their Swearingen Metro fleet. There was also a British Airways service on the Aberdeen route with a single weekday J41 rotation.

[kirmingtonuser]

The Air Europa 737-300 was operating on behalf of Thomson, arriving from Palma and departing to Faro. The Airtours A320 was arriving from and departing to Malaga.

[kirmingtonuser]

Taken in the same month, these photos show the final dark blue AirUK colour scheme. There were three weekday Fokker 100 rotations to Amsterdam.

[pug]

Great photos, a time when the airport was much busier and things were looking up!

[kirmingtonuser]

Thank you - until I recently discovered Focus Magic, they were in no fit state to be posted!

[pug]

If you have more please keep em coming..!

[bamf]

Brilliant! These are wonderful photos!

Does anyone know the largest number of big jets ever on the apron?

Regards

Mike

[filton75]

This photo is from 30th August 2013 - 2 A320s, 2 F70s (one of them must have gone tech), an Eastern and a Gulfstream and the airport is pretty much full! It looks like passengers are queueing to get into arrivals, too.


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[Humberside]

In terms of 'mainline' aircraft, I do have a photo of two Air Europa tails 'sandwiching' an Airtours tail (plus an Eastern Jetstream 32). Must have been early 2000's. Not scanned in though

[kirmingtonuser]

Three more photographs from 11/06/1998 if you don't mind repetition of the aircraft shown in the first post. There are some photographs in the pipeline from various other dates, but you will probably find them disappointing as I don't think any of the aircraft have more than 50 seats!