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A very nice visitor at Jena-Schöngleina Airfield (EDBJ), yesterday - coming from Vannes (VNE), France.
Later the aircraft flew to Mannheim (MHG) and Palma (PMI).
My week's highlight:
The German Air Force Transall during take-off on its goodbye tour at Altenburg-Nobitz Airport (AOC/EDAC, also known as Leipzig-Altenburg Airport).
Incredible surprise above my hometown, yesterday: A short flight of this beautiful bird from Hamburg (HAM/EDDH) to Munich (MUC/EDDM) at FL290 above Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
A nice Boeing 777 approaching RWY 25L at Frankfurt Airport (FRA/EDDF) coming from Sao Paulo (GRU/SBGR).
Caution...black ice ahead
Icelandair Boeing 757-256 TF-LLL named 'Prihnúkagigur' ( after an Icelandic volcano ) has been operating the morning Reykjavík to Dublin FI416/FI417 lately, sporting its unique black & white livery which was applied in late 2021.
TF-LLL dates back to 2000 when delivered to Iberia named "Honduras " & has been with many carriers, including Icelandair as TF-IST , Titan & swanky La Compagnie as F-HTAG.
A nice visitor at EDBJ - coming from Zurich (ZRH) via Erfurt (ERF). Later, the aircraft flew to Mannheim (MHG).
A beautiful and very aged 767-200 at its final approach to RWY 26R at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ). The 37-years-old airframe came from Tel Aviv (TLV).
Welcome home, the comeback kid
Lufthansa brought home their first A380 from deep storage in Teruel, Spain as D-AIMK "Düsseldorf " as LH9921 on the 2nd December, the three hour flight the beginning of reactivating some of their A380 fleet since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alan Joyce, Qantas CEO revealed lately that it takes around 4,500 hours of maintenance work to re activate their A380 from deep storage in the Californian desert as they begin to return 10 of their 12 double deckers to service.
Another brand new Airbus taxiing back to its parking position at Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF/EDDE) after some engine runs and movements.
The pond crosser, one of the new Airbus A321neo long ranger, specially dedciated to routes between Ireland/ UK & the United States.
With 16 business & 168 economy seats, currently 8 in the fleet, 7 based in Ireland & 1 in Manchester, UK.
The Airbus A321neo is fast becoming a gamechanger on flights between European & US cities on the east.
EI-LRE
Aer Lingus
Dublin Airport
Runway 28
Cityjet Avro EI RJX " Scattery Island " in its special unique Leinster rugby livery as proud sponsor of the team, Cityjet used this type of aircraft on services from Dublin to London City & Paris.
Exactly 20 years ago today, I took this picture at Corfu Airport (CFU/LGKR).
LTU flight LT300 shortly after arrival from Dusseldorf (DUS/EDDL). Over an hour later this 12 years old airframe took my back to Munich (MUC/EDDM) as flight LT303.
During the International Cessna Meeting 2020 at Airfield Jena-Schöngleina (EDBJ), Thuringia, Germany ...
Flybe has now ceased trading and all flights from and to the UK operated by Flybe have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled.
28th January 2023
FlyBe had 7 active aircraft in its fleet operating to destinations in the UK, Geneva, and Amsterdam.
Another sad day in the airline industry, regional airline FlyBe.