Comment / With stickers on the nose promoting Germany's Ruhr region.

Comment / Diverting into Stansted from Gatwick, where a short whlie before Thomson's Boeing 757 G-BYAP suffered a bird strike and engine flame out.

Comment / Undoubtedly one of the most spectacular schemes around! Promoting the Oakland Raiders, 9M-XAC lines up on Stansted's runway 04 for take-off to Kuala Lumpur. Rumours have it that a link between Stansted and Oakland is next on Air Asia X's radar...

Comment / G-EZBR was the 100th Airbus aircraft to be delivered to easyJet, back in April 2007, and wears a special livery as such.

Comment / Photographed the night KTHY Cyprus Turkish Airlines suspended operations, TC-TCC arrives at Stansted from Turkey. At the time of writing the future of KTHY is uncertain - after many, many years, could this have been the last ever KTHY flight into Stansted?

Comment / FedEx's A300 N727FD arrives for a short stop at Stansted, enroute from Dublin to Paris.

Comment / Airbus A319 G-EZFH positioned up from Gatwick on 21st May to become the sixth aircraft for easyJet based at Newcastle this summer. Incidentally, sister-ship G-EZFF, which has been Newcastle-based since delivery in March, is down at Luton at the moment receiving attention from engineers after suffering a lightening strike.