Air Bridge Cargo B748

[Anmer]

Heading east towards Isle of Man, flight ID ABW602, hex 4249EA, Air Bridge Cargo's new B748 VQ-BLQ.

[Seagull]

Landed here in Amsterdam and will leave sundaymorning 09:30 to Moscow.

[Anmer]

Heading east towards Shannon, flight ID ABW602, hex 4245FB is Air Bridge Cargo's latest B748 - VQ-BLR, destination Amsterdam.

[viking9]

Anmer,

Is this Air Bridge a successor to Air Bridge Carriers, which belonged to my former employer, Hunting Aviation?

Tom

[Anmer]

From what I can find on the Internet it looks like a Russian start-up in 2003 and is a subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Airlines.  ICAO ABW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirBridgeCargo_Airlines

I can't find any connection with Air Bridge Carriers, ICAO ABR.  Air Bridge Carriers was started in 1972 at East Midlands Airport and changed its name to Hunting Cargo Airlines in 1992 and then to Air Contractors in 1998.

Air Contractors still operates as ABR.  Well that's what Wikipedia says! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Contractors

[mhm]

http://www.aircontractors.com/

Hope this helps Mike

[viking9]

Many thanks guys.