Olympic Air Airbus A319 registered SX-OAJ heading from Athens to Shannon for cabin rearrangement

Olympic Air Airbus A319 registered SX-OAJ (c/n 3905) departed today at 17:30L on course to SNN (Shannon, Ireland) as NOA007P. It is going to have the interior layout reconfigured, as this was originally a plane for Mexicana and the cabin layout (including configuration, seats color & material etc) was already prepared for them before deciding not to take this plane up. It might also have the Olympic Air circles repainted to bigger ones, as SX-OAN had (see post).


Airbus A319 / SX-OAJ / departing from ATH on course to SNN (photo 5/9/2009)

Thanks to Vasilis for the following video.

Airbus A319 / SX-OAJ / departing from ATH on course to SNN (video 5/9/2009)

Olympic Air takes delivery of the first Airbus A319 registered SX-OAJ in Athens today

Olympic Air took delivery of their first Airbus A319 registered SX-OAJ in ATH today. It arrived in full colors at 13:45L, having been painted in SNN (Shannon, Ireland) just yesterday. This is an ex Mexicana plane (c/n 3905) not taken up, that was ferried from XFW (Hamburg, Germany) to SNN in order to be painted (see post). The strange with this flight is that on the FMC of the plane the callsign of the flight was AEE001, which is an Aegean Airlines callsign. On the radio communications though it used callsign "Olympic SX-OAJ". Upon arrival it went directly into the Olympic Air Hangar. The plane is leased from RBS Aviation Capital.


Airbus A319 / SX-OAJ / about to land on rwy 03R in ATH (photo 5/8/2009)

Olympic Air Airbus A319 registered SX-OAJ in Mexicana colors

Another Airbus A319 due for Olympic Air registered SX-OAJ was ferried from XFW (Hamburg, Germany) to SNN (Shannon, Ireland) in order to be painted to full Olympic Air colors. It is an ex Mexicana plane not taken up (c/n 3905) with test registration D-AVWS.

Thanks to Gerry McCready (aerspace.blogspot.com) for the photo.

Airbus A319 / SX-OAJ / arriving in SNN in order to be painted to full Olympic Air colors (photo 24/7/2009)