Comment / The new PIA regional tails look even better courtesy of some superb early morning sunlight! AP-BHX is a new Boeing 777-200ER for the airline (delivered just a month ago) and is no doubt flying overtime at the moment whilst the rest of PIA's long haul fleet is banned from EU airspace.

Comment / After landing on runway 05 and then back tracking all the way down the parallel taxiway, N777AS crosses the 05 threshold again enroute to the busy business aviation terminal at Stansted.

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 / 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 / Saudi Arabian Airlines operated two flights into Stansted today, with this Triple Seven HZ-AKF arriving from Jeddah late on in the morning, and then MD-90 HZ-APF from Malaga mid-afternoon.

Comment / It doesn't get much better than this - an executive Triple Seven arriving during a warm, crystal clear summer's evening. Superb! N777AS arrived from Nice as part of a large entourage of Middle Eastern traffic passing through Stansted, possibly in connection with the Farnborough Airshow.

Comment / Either N777AS has recently been fitted with a new pair of engines - note those blue exhaust cones - or it is still one of the most under-utilized aircraft around!

Comment / A closer look...

Comment / A nice surprise arrival just after 8pm at Stansted yesterday as SV7049 - although with some tricky lighting conditions in play! The setting sun had disappeared behind a bank of low haze by this point, but the result is not too bad never the less.