Late afternoon traffic

Late afternoon traffic from this tuesday.

 

D-AHFZ / Boeing 737-8K5 / TUIfly (Cewe Fotobuch)

Madeira Airport apron overview

CS-AIC / Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee C / Aeroclube da Madeira (Airclub)
Take off to perform a local flight under a fantastic sunset light.

D-ABLA / Boeing 737-76J / Germania

A Blue Travel Service and a Falcon 50

After a few years trying to add Travel Service's HA-LKE (which was the O2 logojet) to my collection, finally today it happened. The airplane arrived from Warsaw as flight QS 7324 and flew back to Warsaw as flight QS 7325.
Another surprise of the day was the visit of the Portuguese Air Force Falcon 50, that performed a few touch-and-go landings before heading to Mainland.

HA-LKE / Boeing 737-86Q/W / Travel Service Hungary

17401 / Dassault Falcon 50 / Portuguese Air Force (FAP)

OY-PSA / Boeing 737-8Q8 / Primera Air Scandinavia

CS-TRG / De Havilland Canada 8-402 Dash 8 / SATA Air Açores

CS-TKJ / Airbus 320-212 / SATA International

Closing Spotting Season 2012

And there it is, the last plane spotting day of 2012, at least for me.
Unfortunately there wasn't any last hour surprise traffic, like an A310 or B767 or something more eye catching than the regular airplanes that we are used to have in this part of the world. Yet the regular traffic together with the sunny weather and the company of fellow spotters was even better than a different traffic movement.

LN-NGD / Boeing 737-8JP/W / Norwegian Air Shuttle

CS-TTQ / Airbus 319-111 / TAP Air Portugal

D-AIZK / Airbus 320-214 / Lufthansa

D-AIZH / Airbus 320-214 / Lufthansa

CS-TRD / De Havilland Canada 8-402 Dash 8 / SATA Air Açores

LN-NGA / Boeing 737-8JP/W / Norwegian Air Shuttle

CS-AIC / Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee C / Aeroclube da Madeira (Air Club)

CS-TNQ / Airbus 320-214 / TAP Air Portugal

LPMA - Tower and apron overview
On the apron from left to right; CS-TTQ, F-HBAO, LN-NGA.

G-EZTG / Airbus 320-214 / easyJet

Holidays Czech Airlines, Lufthansa, and Other Traffic

After being away from plane spotting for almost two and half months due to technical problems with my Sigma 50-500, and after repairing the lens, today I went till FNC/LPMA to catch some of the Saturday traffic under a windy, grey and rainy weather. The highlight for me was the A320 from Holidays Czech Airlines and Lufthansa. The later started operations to FNC a few weeks ago but yet a first for me, at least in FNC.

OK-HCB / Holidays Czech Airlines / Airbus 320-214
After checking the registration history I found that I've already photographed this one while it was flying in First Choice fleet with registration G-OOPX / G-OOAX.

D-AIZK / Lufthansa / Airbus 320-214

D-AIZH / Lufthansa / Airbus 320-214

Now the come of the other traffic on this Saturday afternoon.
LN-NOH / Norwegian Air Shuttle / Boeing 737-86N/W

OE-LBD / Austrian Airlines / Airbus 321-211

Nice to see the Austrian Airlines again.

G-EZFZ / easyJet / Airbus 319-111

D-ABDR / Air Berlin / Airbus 320-214

CS-TTD / TAP Air Portugal / Airbus 319-111

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso jet blasting the water off the runway as it starts the takeoff roll.

Ukraine International Airlines

Here's some photos of the return of Ukraine International Airlines on their first flight to Madeira Island for the 2012 Summer season.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) was established on 1st October 1992 and made their first flight on 25th November 1992. UIA is based at Kyiv Boryspil Airport and operates for more than forty destinations from Ukraine.
It also operates domestic flights within Ukraine.
They have a twenty one Boeing 737 fleet, with different models; B733, B734, B735 and B738.


UR-PSC / Boeing 737-8HX / Ukraine International Airlines

A few days earlier Air Nostrum also started their flights to LPMA. Seen here taxing for departure to Valencia, a few minutes after Ukraine International arrival.  

EC-JCG / Bombardier (Canadair) CL-600-2B19 CRJ-200ER / Air Nostrum

TUIfly's Logo Jets

On this post I bring to you two of the six TUIfly logo jets. 

After missing them on their first visit to Madeira Island, I had some luck last Tuesday since both the CEWE.de and the ÜBÄRFlieger logo jets returned to FNC / LPMA, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.

D-AHFZ / Boeing 737-8K5(W) / TUIfly

D-AHFR / Boeing 737-8K5(W) / TUIfly

Some photos of other traffic of the day.
CS-TRB / De Havilland Canada DHC-8-200 Dash 8 / SATA Air Açores

CS-TTD / Airbus 319-111 / TAP Air Portugal

D-AHFW / Boeing 737-8K5(W) / TUIfly

LX-WAE / British Aerospace ATP/F (LFD)