Comment / My first photo of a Jet2 Boeing 757, this example being of Air Holland heritage, to whom it was first delivered as PH-AHF in 1988. Looking its serial up on the web, I make Jet2 to be it's ninth operator!

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 / Shannon handles a fair amount of transatlantic flights, primarily as a result of long standing bilateral agreements aimed at holding on to traffic at the airport, which would otherwise prefer to route straight to and from Dublin. As a result, at present 50% of services between the USA and Ireland must stopover at Shannon, although motions are in place to relax this arrangement over the next two years.

Comment / This Boeing 757 is a relatively new addition for Loftleidir Icelandic, joining the fleet from US Airways earlier in May this year. Previously she flew with America West Airlines as N907AW and was painted up for a spell, you may remember, in the purple Phoenix Suns basketball team scheme. Here she is rotating away from runway 24L at Manchester operating the Monarch 532 to Palma de Mallorca.

Comment / G-MONB was one of the first Boeing 757s around, delivered to Monarch on this very stretch of tarmac on the 21st March 1983. With the first deliveries of the aircraft from Boeing only beginning at the end of December of 1982, only two carriers - British Airways and Eastern Air Lines - were flying 757s by this time. Today Monarch continues to operate seven examples of the type to all sorts of destinations.

Comment / The weather forecast for this evening was supposed to be nice and clear, but a few lingering thunderstorm cells around Stansted meant that it was anything but. G-ZAPU arrived just as a bright shaft of sunlight pierced through the clouds giving this atmospheric shot against a dark, stormy backdrop.

Comment / One of two Monarch Boeing 757s operating out of Luton at the moment, G-DAJB touches down back at base as a heavy rain cloud passes to the north east of the airfield.

Comment / I last photographed this aircraft exactly one day less than a year ago, standing in exactly the same place at Stansted. El Al have been running a couple of flights from Paris through Stansted and on to Tel Aviv recently, with 4X-EBT seen here arriving from Charles de Gaulle early this morning.

Comment / G-ZAPU returns back to Stansted as an easyJet A319 departs in the background.

Comment / Astraeus' 4th Boeing 757 which entered service last month (ex. G-OOOG with First Choice).

Comment / There's a 757 in there somewhere…