Aigle Azur: Old colors, still...

The last couple of Saturdays, Aigle Azur brought planes with its new livery.
Still haven't photographed any of it so, decided to publish the only Aigle Azur I photographed this year, F-GJVF still with "old" colors.

Smoke on, landing on 05.
Honestly, the only thrill of getting the new livery is just because its new...
This one looks rather nice (for me...)

entering the stand with a nicely filled apron of German traffic...

XL France

The same day of Air Europa's ERJ-190 (check HERE), right after the Embraer's departure we had the usual XL France flight (the XLF had to extend the downwind leg to allow the ERJ taxi and departure).

Haven't got much of these so, despite the crappy wheather, made some shots...

Rampa do sr.Manuel, one of the big spotting places at LPMA, with XLF's B738 entering final
Some tourists and a local spotter were on the area ;)

Lucky shot with the beacons and the small fishing boat

F-HJER

From Russia with...B738

Transaero resumed its summer flights from Russia (Moscow, Vnukovo) to Madeira last week.

Yesterday went by the end of the afernoon for some pics of its arrival.
With clear sky, it's a nice time for some pics but, yesterday was not the day...

Still, some last rays of sun were still around in the plane's final path to runway 05

on the back "GELO" with the ferry-boat (Lobo Marinho) that connects Madeira to Porto Santo on its way to the other island

aka...Transacaspa... ;) (direitos reservado ao Tovarich Pagoda)

EI-RUB...burning rubber...

The first Arkefly....

....of the season, for me...

Like I've mentioned a few times, Tui regular colors like the ones used by Arkefly are definitely not a thrill to catch so, haven't made much effort to get Arkefly since they started making the summer season flights.

But, in this day, it happened to catch PH-TFD, arriving and departing from / to Amsterdam...

Landing on runway 05

Madeira flowers......

The take off was made from runway 23

Foto da Semana: ERJ-190 da Air Europa

A foto da semana foi tirada ontem, dia de Portugal...apesar de tudo destaca a presença de um espanhol por estas bandas...sacrilégio? Ná....apenas spotting...

EC-LLR

Apesar de não me lembrar de ver a Air Europa por cá, consta que já andou por estas bandas, há já muito tempo (provavelmente será fácil de encontrar mas, ainda não procurei...).

De qualquer forma, esta operação charter marcou a estreia do ERJ-190 deles pela Madeira, com um primeiro voo, de Madrid, na passada sexta-feira e ontem, o voo que veio buscar os passageiros.

Acabei por não conseguir chegar a tempo da aterragem, pelo que  ficam umas fotos do taxi para alinhar na 05 e descolagem de regresso a Madrid.

Por sorte, o beacon, num tipo de avião que é uma raridade por cá...

Small Planet indeed...

I guess the name of an airline called "Small Planet" suits perfectly when you got the polish branch of a Lithuanian airline making flights from France to Portugal...

It's one airline that was in my whishlist for some time.
Only caught them a couple of times, none of wich I made a wow pic but, here's a few ones from last month, with runway 23 in use at Madeira international (FNC/LPMA)

just landed at runway 23

Taking off from runway 23, back to France

Foto da Semana: As coisas importantes...

Depois de uma semana sem muito tempo e acima de tudo vontade para colocar algumas fotos,
especialmente neste dia, nada melhor que eleger esta foto como foto da semana.

A minha pequena spotter acha muito mais piada aos navios de cruzeiro que por cá passam mas, ninguém consegue ficar indiferente ao velho G.91 Tiger....