Best of 2013
The first highlight of the year was EC-LRT, an A320 from Orbest, making a Transavia flight, it was the first time we had Orbest around here. Check HERE
In February had the oportunity for a visit to Portuguese Air Force detachment of Squadron 751, which operates the EH-101 Merlin helicopter at AM3, at Porto Santo in order to make some pics for an article published by "Revista Cruzeiros" (Cruiseship Magazine) regarding the rescues made from cruiseships.
Check HERE
March's military highlight was the Portuguese Air Force C-130, operated by Squadron 501 with the special markings of the fleet's 70501 flight hours. Check HERE
In April we had at Madeira the first A320 with sharklets.
It was OE-LER from Niki (Air Berlin). Check HERE
April was also the month for getting Thomas Cook Belgium new logojet, advertising Gra-Canaria (A320 OO-TCI). Check HERE
In May, finally, after years of wait, Austrian brought its plane with the retro livery (OE-LBP).
On that day, also got, for the first time, a Small Planet.
Check HERE
Also in May, got for the first time Travel Service's special livery "Prague loves you". It was special on the double as they brought the logojet B737 in the morning and the other "Prague loves you" Airbus logojet in the afternoon. Check HERE
On June, we had the first Embraer ERJ-190 from Air Europa around here. It was a very nice catch as I love the ERJ-190 look and that airline livery looks really nice.
Check HEREIn February had the oportunity for a visit to Portuguese Air Force detachment of Squadron 751, which operates the EH-101 Merlin helicopter at AM3, at Porto Santo in order to make some pics for an article published by "Revista Cruzeiros" (Cruiseship Magazine) regarding the rescues made from cruiseships.
Check HERE
March's military highlight was the Portuguese Air Force C-130, operated by Squadron 501 with the special markings of the fleet's 70501 flight hours. Check HERE
In April we had at Madeira the first A320 with sharklets.
It was OE-LER from Niki (Air Berlin). Check HERE
April was also the month for getting Thomas Cook Belgium new logojet, advertising Gra-Canaria (A320 OO-TCI). Check HERE
In May, finally, after years of wait, Austrian brought its plane with the retro livery (OE-LBP).
On that day, also got, for the first time, a Small Planet.
Check HERE
Also in May, got for the first time Travel Service's special livery "Prague loves you". It was special on the double as they brought the logojet B737 in the morning and the other "Prague loves you" Airbus logojet in the afternoon. Check HERE
OK-TVX taking off from runway 23 |
The first day of summer brought us rain...and also a new TCW Logojet (Air Flair, on OO-TCJ)
Check HERE
July was the time for another special livery, by Travel Service.
OK-TVL carrying a Moravian Silesian Region livery. Check HERE
In July, also got, for the first time, Smartwings new colors, with look rather nice.
Check HERE
OK-TVW on final to runway 23 |
Luxair's LX-LGU looked nice with the movie stickers. More HERE
It was the first Luxair of the year for me and also the first time I got LX-LGU |
Check more on that HERE
According to latest news, the Goverment already approved the shut down of EMA that operated these helicopters for the Goverment and God knows (?) what will happen to these helicopters (I said God because, I'm pretty sure that those guys in the Goverment don't....) |
Fortunatelly it stayed for a few days at Madeira and I was back to the island in time to get its departure.
More on that HERE
Despite beeing on duty with SATA since May, September was the month I made the first inflight shots of SATA's latest plane, CS-TKP.
Check HERE
It was with F-HBIB (was also the day I made my last Lufthansa pic's at Madeira, before their retirement from the Madeira flights...
Check HERE
Yet in October we had the beggining of SAS flights from Oslo.
It's been quite a few years since we had SAS around here and even then the last flights were made with A319, so it was great news to see the airline's B737 back to Madeira.
It was great news on the double, to get LN-RCY with Disney Planes special livery. Check HERE
Also in October finnally caught the first Easyjet with sharklets (G-EZWN). It wasn't an Easy catch with lots of delays and problems with the flight but, managed to get its departure from Madeira.
More on that HERE
October was the time for another expected premiere: Finnair brought, for the first time its A321 from Helsinki. It was also the first time we had an A321 with sharklets at Madeira and also the first time Finnair brought a plane with its most recent livery. 3 premiers in a row ;)
Check more on that HERE
OH-LZG departing back to Helsinki, from runway 05 |
Check more on that HERE
In November had the oportunity to get (finally) OO-TCH, from Thomas Cook Belgium with the ICE Watch special livery. Check HERE
By the end of the year, in December, 17th, we had another premiere, the new portuguese charter airline Windavia with Smartlynx A320 YL-LCL operated for White, which is the certified airline under which Windavia operates...
Plane and passengers were received with water canon salutes and flowers
Check more on that HERE
The last highlight of the year was provided by Aerovip.
As from January 2014, the flights between Madeira and Porto Santo are beeing carried through by Aerovip, replacing Sata and its Q200.
They're using a Dornier 228, one of my favorite litle passenger planes, which is back into Madeira after many years.
The plane beeing used arrived at Madeira on December, 30th.
Check HERE
CS-TGG first landing at Madeira with Aerovip colors. |
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