Comment / With the recently announced tender for 34 new long-haul aircraft to replace its ageing 747-400s and 767-300s, could we be seeing more 777s join the British Airways fleet, and some perhaps some 787s too? Or will it be Airbus' day with an order for a mixture of A330s, A350s and A380s? We look forward to outcome in the new year, and the first deliveries at the end of 2008 or early 2009.

Comment / MyTravel have announced that their last Boeing 757, G-WJAN, shall be leaving the fleet at the end of November, ending the airline's long association with the type. G-WJAN was first delivered direct to Airtours International Airways in March 1997, and shall be leaving for Canada to fly for Skyservice.

Comment / After a being an all-too-common sight at Stansted for a number of years, easyJet finally withdrew its last Boeing 737 series -300 last month. Seen here at Stansted in golden evening sunlight late last autumn, G-EZYM arrives on runway 23 - she is now flying for Virgin Nigeria as 5N-VND.

Comment / First photo of Tarom in the database - we're now up to 181 different airlines, 84 different aircraft types and 657 different registrations online!

Comment / Another PIA Triple Seven departs runway 24L at Manchester, on a very soggy January morning last winter! A month after this photo was taken, PIA took delivery of a pair of 777-200LRs, with the first aircraft AP-BGY passing through Manchester on its delivery flight from Seattle on the 26th February.

Comment / This 737 started her career in the UK with British Midland as G-OBMB, before joining Ansett Australia as VH-CZW in 1993. She is now back on the British register where she started, flying for Jet2.

Comment / Departing away from Newcastle's runway 25, destination Aberdeen.

Comment / My first glimpse of the new Eastern colours - a great improvement over the old scheme! As it happens, it was on this aircraft, G-MAJL, that the new livery first appeared last month.

Comment / The first KLM arrival of the day into Newcastle - flight 957 from Amsterdam.

Comment / Those Ray Webster stickers haven't lasted long!

Comment / Flybe have a number of daily services through Newcastle, with G-JEDK seen here arriving on runway 25 from Belfast's City airport on a lovely autumn morning.

Comment / Jet2's Boeing 737 G-CELG has been flying with this hybrid dark grey nose cone for this last two months or so - any ideas where it may have come from?

Comment / Eastern flight 4031 arrives at Newcastle after a short hop down south from Aberdeen.

Comment / The Boeing 747 freighters of Air France Cargo are regular visitors to Stansted in connection with the Formula 1 races. This series -400ER F-GIUD visited this evening to pick up some cars for the upcoming race in Shanghai, with a Malaysian 747 stopping by yesterday to pick up TV equipment.