Passing moment

Just to prove the sunshine does work now and then ! With a vertical separation of 3,000 ft are Air France flight AFR 682 (top) operated by B777-200 F-GSPM on it's way to Atlanta and  AFR 439 (bottom) operated by B777-200 F-GSPD at FL 390 routing Mexico - Paris, pictured this morning over Barefield Co. Clare.

Ryanair receive two new 737s

An Atlantic storm that passed through Ireland Saturday played it's role in the delivery of the latest Ryanair aircraft. The two latest aircraft are EI-DYX, msn 37517, hex code 4CA6FB and EI-DYW, msn 33635, hex code 4CA6AA. Since Ryanair 737s started receiving ETOPS certification the aircraft have flown Boeing Field direct to Dublin but in yesterday's case the aircraft had planned Boeing - Keflavik - Dublin. 

Before lunch time on Saturday the winds in Ireland picked up with Shannon showing a direction of 180 degrees and gusts hitting 50kts. This forced two Ryanair flights inbound to Shannon to divert to Dublin  - RYR1175 operated by EI-DCF and RYR1147 operated by EI-CSW. By 14.00 hrs the wind at Shannon had swung around to 240 degrees, straight down the middle but Dublin had gone out of limits for some aircraft which resulted in the weekly Air France Cargo flight, AFR6547 operated by B747 F-GIUC diverting from Dublin to Shannon.

Only one of the Ryanair deliveries made it into Dublin - EI-DYW with EI-DYX diverting to Shannon where it landed at 16.49, closely followed by Austrian Airlines flight 9733 operated by B737 OE-LNT which was also a weather diversion from Dublin. 

Pictured above, EI-DYX taxis onto R24 in Shannon for it's positioning flight ot Dublin , Sunday morning.