Air Méditerranée bankrupt...

Looks like French airline Air Méditerranée is down, or as stated in their website, in Judicial Liquidation....

To the memory...a set of pics taken at Madeira...

B735 F-HCOA

A321 F-GYAQ

A321 F-GYAJ

Quick stop on the afternoon

This week while heading to Funchal, at the end of the afternoon, made a quick stop at the Airport just in time to get the arrival of Easyjet's A319 G-EZDU with a great light...

final to runway 05

F-GYAQ, Air Méditerranée A321 getting ready to depart to Nantes

and the usual A320 from Sata, based at Madeira, CS-TKJ

New Photo of the Week: Spotting runway 23

Last monday, went, for the first time on these vacations, to the airport for an afternoon of spotting.

Lucky me, runway 23 was in use so, decided to try out a few diferent spots for the take-offs.

The best framings didn't turn out as good as I wanted (out of focus and some heat haze) but still, these points turned out to be some good locations, to explore further more...

My favorite of the day...PGA's Foker 100 CS-TPC climbing out from runway 23, to Lisbon (LIS/LPPT)

One of the targets of the day...it's been a long time since I last had photographed a Luxair and I really do like its livery...
LX-LGQ landing on 23

and the take off...too bad the best framing pics, with the airport in the back turned out too crappy...

Very early take off for Easyjet's  G-EZIO, photographed from the most usual spotting point...

Another of my favorite pics of the day... F-GYAQ, the red tail A321, from Air Méditerranée

The landing

another view of the take off, side-by-side with me...

Yet on another spot, the Sata's Q400 CS-TRG take-off to Ponta Delgada (PDL/LPPD) provided some nice shots...

The surprise of the day: G-CMAS, from Execujet, an ERJ-135 Legacy that landed on runway 23 while I was on the  side, waiting for the take-offs

G-OZBB, another target of the day as I still hadn't photographed any Monarch this year.
Also my first Monarch with the new lettering

G-EZFW, just arrived at the stand...

The red tail...

No, not talking about the WWII movie (quite crappy, even for an aviation fan...)

This morning was checking out traffic to Madeira airport (LPMA/FNC) when I noticed that the Air Méditerranée of the morning was an Airbus A321 that I had photographed last July and still hadn't processed: one with the red tail, F-GYAQ

Taking off from runway 05 ( digg a little tractor spotting, in the mix?lol)

Managed to get it on the afternoon, on its 2nd flight of the day but that's stuff for another entry....

The French Palmtree

Air Méditerranée has been coming to Madeira for some time but until last monday I still hadn't caught any plane other than the B735 F-HCOA...

On monday, the planned model was an A321, so an extra, besides all the other planes I wanted to get...

When it was coming on the downwind leg to runway 05 noticed a diferent tail...it was an extra on the extra....red tail with the palmtree...

Despite the all white fuselagem the tail looks real nice

F-GYAQ

Touchdown was a little bumpy...