Stockholm Arlanda - Sundsvall Sweden 16th - 19th September       Dave Anderson

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On a recent business trip to Sweden, I managed to log the following, sadly no photo's, not enough time or opportunity. The following are the decent bits noted at Manchester during the afternoon before departure.

We left on SAS2550 a Boeing 737-600 LN-RRR, the route took us straight over the top of Teesside towards Scandinavia, as usual it was cloudy, 2hours later we landed at a very wet and dark Stockholm Arlanda airport, nothing much to see as we didn't have long before be were off again to Sundsvall in the North of Sweden. The flight should have been a Dash 8 but due to the two recent crashes, other types are being used on local flights until the Dash 8's are all returned to service. Our flight was combined with an earlier cancelled flight to Sundsvall and we left on the 30 minute flight on SAS058 Boeing 737-800 LN-RPN.

Sundsvall is a small airport, similar in size to Teesside, though looking at the departures board on Wednesday only 6 schedule flights were shown for the day. The Bucker Jungmann is hung from the roof in the terminal and in addition to the bits noted below an unidentified Challenger and Saab 2000 were parked up. Once again a substitute aircraft was used in the shape of MD81 OY-KGZ.

Stockholm Arlanda was a little different in the daylight, on landing the first sight was three stored Caravelles and an old Transwede 747, a busy airport, and as you would expect lots of SAS, with no bins the following were logged from a quick walk along the piers and as we taxied out. Our return flight was on the SAS2549 to Manchester on Boeing 737-600 LN-RRP. On take off the other Caravelle was seen in the trees, the freight area had a mix of UPS, DHL, Fedex and the Ethiopian 767

                    Stockholm Arlanda Wednesday 19th September

Back at Manchester the following bits were noted on arrival.

                                Manchester Airport Wednesday 19th September