Planes and stuff

 Air Baltic A220 YL-ABX, special livery, arriving at runway 05, from Riga. Despite beeing one of the most beautifull liveries around, it's the only one they have brought to Madeira so, for a change they should try to bring another one...pretty sure they would get a lot more attention and marketing feedback...

 Back to December 2025, Air Baltic A220 YL-ABW from/to Riga with a cew change and a jolly F/O on arrival. Happy New Year to you too! Coming to a stop, after a runway 23 landing... entering A05 stand Captain signaling ground staff New crew boarding... runway 23 take-off back to Riga...

A couple more shots from Venice - Marco Polo Air France is definitely a usual (or even rare...) bird at Madeira so, it's allways a nice catch, specially with the Laguna background and an Air Baltic A220 on the back . A320 F-GKXR with Air Baltic A220 YL-ABS, arriving, on the back...

Once more, another shot of another day of Air Baltic Baltic Heritage special livery . With runway 23 in use, was only able to get the final part of the landing and taxi to the stand so, decided to try a diferent shot of this beautiful A220 special livery... On the stand with Eurowings A320 D-AEWV departing on the back, to Dusseldorf...

  After a whole winter season, finally Air Baltic brought us a special livery. YL-ABX,  the most recent special livery, celebrating its 50th A220 and a stunning one... Unfortunatelly, wasn't able to get the arrival With a variable wind, was hoping for a runway 23 departure which would make the shots a lot more interesting but, it was 05...anyway, got it! Last Air Baltic flight will be on March, 28th so, there's still time for a few more special liveries or another flight with this one ;) A random selection of shots of the push-back and taxi... If TAP had the A220 this could almost be the look of it, on this perspective.... :) 

 As much as I like the A220 with the Air Baltic livery...it's about time they bring to Madeira one of its special liveries....... Anyway, YL-ABV arriving at Madeira's runway 05, from Riga...

For the first post (and photos) of the year, a first.... The first time I got Air Baltic at night (also believe it was the first time they flew here during the night but, not sure on that...their flights arrive at Madeira in the morning...) Unfortunally we're still waiting for one of its special liveries... A220 YL-ABT about to start the push-back, for the return flight to Riga... finishing the push-back...runway in use, 23... An extra...on a night-stop, an hybrid: Air Horizont with Air Seven livery, B734 9H-TIA..too bad about the stairs in front... The only other time I got an A220 during the night was back in 2022, with Swiss A220 HB-JCB ( HERE )

With 3 weekly flight from Riga, still no signs of any of their special liveries, around here.... Still, it's allways nice to catch an A220 around here. Also first pics I got of Air Baltic with runway 23 in use... YL-ABU arriving from Riga Departure back to Riga, also from runway 23

 Air Baltic made its first flight to Madeira yesterday. It was quite dificult to make its firs landing at Madeira as it was one of those out of limits winds days... Good for me :) It should have arrived form Riga during the morning, when I couldn't be at the airport but due to the winds it diverted to Las Palmas and only came to Madeira during the afternoon...even then, it didn't land at the first atempt, with a go-around in the begining of long final... Finally it managed to land after another go to the IAP and full approach... A220-300 YL-ABU, on 05... It's been quite a long time I wanted to see this one around here, specially with the beautiful A220 A part of the apron during the last sunlight, with BA, TUI UK and Condor A321NEO Condor A321NEO D-ANMX and YL-ABU...quite a lot of green :) And a shot on the go-around of the afternoon...

There are some airlines that really don't have anything with a special meaning to you...not even the livery but you allways like to photograph it once, just for the record... Air Baltic is one of those...still, that green tail looks rather nice... Air Baltic's YL-BBK