Happy Birthday Monarch!

Looks like Monarch celebrates its 49th Aniversary today!
Happy Birthday and long life!

A small selection of Monarch pics around here...More? Check HERE

A320 G-ZBAP

A320 G-ZBAH on final to runway 05

G-ZBAH departing from runway 23

A320 G-OZBY entering the apron trough "Charlie"...

A321 G-OZBP with white tail on short final to runway 23

G-ZBAH

Monarch on 05

From one month ago, the sequence of Monarch's A320 G-ZBAH landing on runway 05

over runway's treshold, with some nice reflections on the fuselage

all out for the stop, sill with the front wheel up

Monarch from 23...

Like I mentioned many times before, love the late afternoon take-offs from runway 23, even if the take off is a bit early, like this one...

Monarch's A320 G-ZBAH from 23 with Ponta de S.Lourenço in the back

New Photo of the Week: Monarch on 05

It's been quite a while since I last made some shots on a Monarch that worked ok for me...

Last monday made a few pics of G-ZBAH's arrival that don't look that bad...

about to land 05

This one would look a lot better on a sharkleted Airbus...still haven't got any...

New Week Photo: Monarch on the double

Some from the first Monday of August...
Currently the traffic isn't that interesting on Monday afternoons but, still Monarch, Binter and Luxair are airliners that I haven't photographed much, lately...
A few shots of the Monarch flights, from London Gatwick and Birmingham ...

Monarch's A320 G-ZBAH landing on runway 05, with its "brother" A321 G-ZBAI ready to taxi for the return flight to London Gatwick.
In the apron, Sata's Q400 CS-TRD had just arrived from Faro (LPFR/FAO) and Binter's ATR-72 EC-KYI had arrived from Tenerife (TFN)

The landing of A320 G-ZBAH

Nice view of the couple of Monarch's

A321 G-ZBAI taxiiing to runway 05, for its departure to London-Gatwick.
In the back, Luxair's B738 LX-LGU and Transavia France F-GZHC