Top 5

Today had a photo that managed to get to at least the #2 at Airliner's Top5 of last 24H...
It's allways nice and even best when it's a pic of the kind I really like

Luxair 's LX-LGR taking off from runway 05

New Photo of the Week - Luxair

One of the plane I got last monday was LX-LGR, from Luxair.
It's one airline I haven't photographed in quite a long time and definitely one that I really like the livery.

Looks like many people (spotters) don't really like it but, althought I tought the old one was nothing special, the "new" one looks rather nice, specially the tail.

I find this to be a particular nice angle for this plane as it allows to have a look at the top of the plane, and the detail of the tail livery.

landing on 05

departing also on 05 with the eastern part of the island on front of it...

Luxair

Jorge called my atention today on a new plane to Luxair (info on Skyliner Aviation), so in lack of new traffic (still processing the pics from last monday, with a couple of nice catches, specially G-OOBA, with new colors, Thomson ones, and winglets...) decided to share some Luxair pics, remembering old and new colors...

The next two are definitely my favorites on this airline:
Taking off from runway 23, in the afternoon...

Landing on runway 23, on the afternoon...

Taking off from runway 23 in bad weather...This is the only pic I have published on paper for this airline:

Still old colors and another take off from runway 23 on the late afternoon...

New colors landing on runway 05 by the afternoon...

and taking off, from runway 05, also on the afternoon...

Want to know how to get into these locations? Have a look at Madeira Spotters Webpage...it's mostly there.

SAS retro and Flyglobespan / Oman Air

So, here's the rest of the traffic for the Monday, 11th May.
As I said a very nice day for spotting with some really interesting traffic.
On the afternoon, besides the more interesting traffic, the sunlight was also better (on its location and quality).

In little more than half an hour there was a lot of traffic. Good, that's the way I like it, specially if I was supose to be "somewhere else" :))

Anyway, we had the SAS with retro livery, which is always a nice catch. Until now had only caught it once and the photos were real crappy...




This Flyglobespan returned back to its operator just a few days, after a lease to Oman Air and it's still wearing hybrid colors (very nice ones, be the way...)






Transavia, as usual, with the regular livery...no PH-XRA...


It made a bit of a longer and...


...quite a smoky landing...


And at this time, it even looks like its orange time with lots (for our kind of traffic) of Easyjets...









Luxair new colors is allways a nice catch. Much better looking than the old livery...
Right wheel touchdown


A bit of an overview.
The national airline showing Portuguese colors on the most internation day at LPMA:



All in all, some very nice moments with on a well worth quick trip to the airport...