The Belgium Gnome

Last Saturday morning we had at LPMA a Thomas Cook Belgium logojet, dedicated to a character named Plop, more precisely Kabouter Plop or in english, Plop the Gnome. After a little research I've found out that Plop is a well known Belgium TV celebrity, on a children TV show.
OO-TCP / Airbus 320-214 /Thomas Cook Belgium
The photo is not the best due to backlight, sorry for that.

Air Berlin oneworld and other traffic

Here's some photos from this afternoon. Highlight for the Air Berlin oneworld logojet, in its second visit to LPMA. Tuifly also brought a logojet, DB Air Two, only this one is a regular visitor. 

D-ABMC / Boeing 737-86J|W / Air Berlin

Air Berlin afternoon at LPMA.

OK-TVL / Boeing 737-8FN / Travel Service

F-GZHA / Boeing 737-8GJ|W / Transavia France 

A different perspective of the aircraft.

HB-IOW / Airbus 320-214 / Air Berlin (Belair Airlines)

D-ABKM / Boeing 737-86J|W / Air Berlin

D-ATUC / Boeing 737-8K5|W / Tuifly

D-AHFH / Boeing 737-8K5|W / Tuifly

A few inches from touchdown.

G-EZAO / Airbus 319-111 / easyJet

Condor 767-330ER

After last Thursday a Condor flight performed by a B753, that had to stay grounded, at Madeira airport, due to mechanical problems (hydraulic system), today we had a B763 also from Condor to take back to Germany the passengers from the B753 flight.

It arrived from Frankfurt as flight CFG 900 and about one hour later departed to Frankfurt as flight CFG 887.

D-ABUD / Boeing 767-330 ER / Condor

Rolling for takeoff on rwy 05.

G-EZBB / Airbus 319-111 / easyJet

CS-TTJ / Airbus 319-111 / TAP Air Portugal.

10 Years of Thomas Cook Belgium

Last Monday, April 16th, we had a nice visitor at Madeira airport. A A320 from Thomas Cook Belgium with the color scheme celebrating the 10 year of the airline.
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium was founded on December 2001 and started it's operations on March 2002.
OO-TCH / Airbus 320-214 / Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
Don't worry, on the starboard side everything normal, just the regular color scheme.

On that same day, Jet2 was also here, as usual.
G-CELJ / Boeing 737-330 / Jet2

G-LSAA / Boeing 757-236 / Jet2

And here's two easyJet's. Curiously I can't remember the last time I photographed one.
G-EZBK / Airbus 319-111 / easyJet

G-EZTL / Airbus 320-214 / easyJet

Smartwings

Some afternoon traffic from this Friday, with the highlight for the Travel Service flight QS2042, from Prague, performed by Smartwings.
OK-SWX / Boeing 737-76N / Smartwings

CS-DPA / Beechcraft Hawker 900XP / MadJet

CS-TJF / Airbus 321-211 / TAP Air Portugal

PH-HZD / Boeing 737-8K2 / Transavia Airlines

Icelandair

This Tuesday we had a visit of a B757 from Icelandair. This is not a first at Madeira airport, the last time this airline stopped around here, with a B757, was in May 2010. Unfortunately the last time I photographed this airline was in March 2008.
As I've already mencioned, the flight was made by a B757 with registration TF-FIP.
Arrived at LPMA/FNC at 13:45 from Reykjavik and about one hour later took off to the Canary Islands, more precisely to GCLP/LPA. From Gran Canaria it would fly back to Reykjavik this time without stopping by Madeira Airport.
TF-FIP / Boeing 757-208 / Icelandair

The shortest takeoff I've ever seen performed by a Boeing 757, just used 800 meters of runway.