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Saudi Arabian At London Stansted

Avion757 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1084 times:

On Monday, when I was at Stansted at 17:55, I saw a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777 at the holding point at the runway. Why was this aircraft there?

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Avion757 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1023 times:

Does anyone have ANY ideas?

Richardw From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 3712 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1019 times:

Cargo of some kind possibly?

TR From UK - England, joined May 2001, 952 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1014 times:

I saw it as well as I flew out on SK2502. Wasn´t it parked outside the FLS hanger? Maybe some kind of maintenance? All cargo doors were open at that time.

Cheers
Thomas

Dufo From Slovenia, joined May 1999, 752 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 998 times:

I actually saw that 777 taking off while waiting for my flight to Trieste. It was interesting to see that bird at Stansted..

Jernej

I seriously think I just creamed my pants without any influence from any outside variables.

Ikarus From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 3524 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 983 times:

Actually, I have noticed Saudi Arabian 747SPs and L1011s at Stansted several times, and the Dubai government 747SP, too. I don't think it's anything special. The Arabian VIP planes are regular visitors in London - Heathrow and Stansted (I have not flown out of Gatwick or Luton lately, but I would imagine they are not too uncommon there, either)

Regards

Ikarus

Lufthansa404 From Germany, joined Aug 2001, 138 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 968 times:

Its not unlikely that it was a VIP transport.
We had Saudi 777 at cologe and 743 at Duesseldorf recently - both some kind of VIP.

Cheers,

Jan

Jiml1126 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 943 times:

I think you can see Saudia Arbian's plane all over the world with their Kings, Prince...(the royal family)'s VIP travel Smile

Ryanair From United Kingdom, joined Jul 1999, 654 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (11 years 8 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 921 times:

Saudi Royal flight regularly use the airport on shopping trips to London. If it was a 777 it would have been a minor royal, if it's one of the 747's then it's more likely somebody from higher up the ranks.

Certainly the Kings wives use 747-SP's for shopping trips fairly regularly into STN.

I tried to convince airfield ops to stick them and an El Al 744 next to each other once, oddly enough they declined!

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