The air res for the 2nd cell of AV-8`s to Lajes has been removed for today, there's an air res which looks like the dept of the first cell to USA.
Blue 72/83-0076 departed Sigonella early hours this morning and would guess to go and collect the last two AV-8`s from the middle East to Souda Bay so probably the 2nd cell will dept for Lajes Wednesday?
DBarty wrote:The air res for the 2nd cell of AV-8`s to Lajes has been removed for today, there's an air res which looks like the dept of the first cell to USA.
Blue 72/83-0076 departed Sigonella early hours this morning and would guess to go and collect the last two AV-8`s from the middle East to Souda Bay so probably the 2nd cell will dept for Lajes Wednesday?
Yes, I would guess the remaining cell of Harriers for Lajes on Wednesday.
DBarty wrote:Blue 72/83-0076 arrived at Souda Bay 03.05z, unclear yet if the other two AV-8`s also into Souda
Blue 72 arrived indeed at Souda early in the morning today. AV-8's were also there this morning, but they were more than two. I have seen at least 4 of them.
Air res back up for tomorrow,
A1656/17 - MOBILE AIRSPACE RESERVATION WILL TAKE PLACE ROUTE: LUTAK - 3838N 02000W - BAVAS - REGLA. LATERAL SEPARATION WILL BE APPLIED IN OCEANIC AIRSPACE: 60NM FOR MNPS ACFT, 120NM FOR NON-MNPS ACFT. FL230 - FL250, 17 MAY 15:37 2017 UNTIL 17 MAY 20:33 2017. CREATED: 16 MAY 15:00 2017
At a guess: Blue 62/79-1949 went Rota back to (McGuire) today so presume tomorrow will see 83-0076/Blue (72) out of Souda 9-10z and drag the AV-8`s 4/6? to south Spain through the Gib straights where 85-0032/Blue (61) out of Lajes will take over and drag the AV-8`s back to Lajes with 83-0076/Blue (72) following to Lajes leaving 10/12 AV-8`s + 2 KC-10`s at close of day at Lajes same totals that came USA > Lajes back in October.
Still had no confirm if the missing two AV-8`s did turn up at Souda?
As I said yesterday, Mazda21 flight included 4 aircraft and departed today from Souda around 10:30z to Lajes. It was followed by Blue72, cleared to LERT. Mazda21 flight included CG-04, 05 and 07. The fourth one looks like CG-00, but I am not 100% sure.
