Passing Moment (Part 5) N580UP delivered to UPS

N580UP operating delivery flight UPS 9131 this morning passes overhead Barefield Co. Clare at FL430.

Westbound aircraft transiting Irish airspace while the eastbound North Atlantic flow is still in progress tend to cause curiosity levels to rise. Such was the case this morning when a 4 engined wide body was noted approaching overhead Barefield, Co. Clare heading in the direction of DOGAL. Curiosity levels rose further when it turned out that the aircraft, a B747 was at FL430, rather high for normal commercial operations. Investigation identified the aircraft as B747-428F registered N580UP operating flight UPS 9131 routing Luxembourg - Bangor - Roswell. N580UP is the first of four B747-400F aircraft which UPS are acquiring from Cargolux and up to yesterday was registered LX-ICV to the Luxembourg based freight carrier.

UPS withdraw from Cork

UPS have confirmed that from Friday all export freight from the Cork area will be flown out of the company's existing bases at Shannon and Dublin. All other operations at Cork will continue as normal. The company is not planning redundancies in Cork at this time.