Planes and stuff

This week Condor said good-bye to its Boeing 757 with a special farewell flight carried by D-ABOM between FRA-VIE-FRA. Condor's B753 were quite an interesting sight around Madeira, for many years...so this deserves a special post with some photos taken over the years... D-ABOB D-ABOM, more HERE D-ABOE, the only 757 cockpit I ever went. 20 years ago, hope everything is running smooth with Capt. Eric Altendorf. Still one of the best welcomes I had. D-ABOI, more HERE D-ABOJ, more HERE Willi, D-ABON, more HERE D-ABOC, more HERE D-ABOA These were really special planes and definitely will be missed around here.

Germany is one of the most important touristic markets to Madeira. Lately the traffic from this country has been growing and this Tuesday that became a little more noticeable with the increase of Germania flights, adding another one (from Munich) to the already existing 3. Besides that there's also 4 Tuifly's and a couple of Air Berlins (from Germany and another, from Zurich). Also an hightlight to the return of Niki, with a flight from Vienna (made with an A320, let's hope we can see this airline's ERJ-190 again...) Anyway, most of these flights were in the morning while I was at work...(maybe next week...) Still a good ocasion to share a previously unreleased pic of a Germania B737 (the only one I got until now...) G-AGET landing on runway 05 and a few more Germans (and a French) from last Thursday... D-ABOA, the second B753 of that day. The week before Condor started bringing a couple of these planes and that would be really great, except all the Ma...