Aircraft positioning flights, maintenance and storage thread

G-VKSS positioned EDI-LHR earlier as VS878P and then operated VS379 LHR-ISB. This is the first time an A330-300 was used on this route.

G-VWND is positioning MAN-LHR as VS812P.

Does anyone know why G-VZIG is positioning to Manchester?

Extra movements coming up:
22 APR 22 VS847P TLS-LHR G-VLIB A1630 (changed from 24/4)
25 APR 22 VS832P MAN-LHR G-VLNM D1300 A1340

As usual, all movements are subject to change.

[mitchja]

Anyone know why G-VWOO is on her way to CPT (Cape Town) from MAN as the VS615 this evening?

Anyone know why G-VWOO is on her way to CPT (Cape Town) from MAN as the VS615 this evening?

It’s apparently a one off charter. There were rumours of MAN-CPT becoming a permanent route, but they appear to be false.

I see G-VLNM has been doing circuits off the Cornish coast for most of the afternoon, is this part of her end of lease process?

Due to delays yesterday, the following will happen today:

G-VEVE is currently in MCO after positioning in to take over last night’s delayed VS136 and will return to it’s usual flying routine on Tuesday.

G-VLIB will position to Heathrow at 10:05am after being on the ground yesterday and will operate today’s VS135 to MCO and then VS74 to MAN.

G-VJAM is currently operating VS74 MCO to MAN and will operate today’s VS73 MAN-MCO and then VS136 LHR-MCO.

G-VWAG is currently significantly delays on VS363 to MAN. This will have a knock on with today’s VS127 which will likely be delayed at least 2 hours.

With the last update from VS Trade published it looks like none of the traditional leisure routes have been allocated the A351, do we know if EVE and LIB are going into storage for the winter?

[mitchja]

At a guess, I would say they will more than likely they will be deployed on other routes based on demand and loads. It's now far easier for VS to send the 'leisure' config A351's to many other destinations compared to when they had their fleet of 744's.

Overall I think we need to try and forget about calling the new A351's (EVE & LIB) 'leisure fleet'. It's just a different config and not necessarily an A/C VS send to just leisure destinations such as MCO.