Planes and stuff

A320 OE-LEU landing at Madeira's runway 23 last back in May 2016 Unfortunately (but, still as expected....) Niki Airlines annouced the ceasing  of its operations as from tomorrow, as stated in its webpage: " Dear guests, the flight operations of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH under IATA-Airline-Code HG will cease as of December 14th. Passengers who have booked their flight with a tour operator are kindly asked to contact their tour operator directly. The tour operator is responsible to accommodate his passengers. Several Airlines are currently looking into solutions for bringing back passengers on standby-basis for a small fee from abroad destinations back to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To our regret, TUIfly will not participate in this solution. We would like to thank you for your long-standing loyalty. Your NIKI-Team" The best of lucks for all the employees....

Happy New year everyone! Despite all the fuss about the renaming of Madeira Airport, it still remains as it was..."Aeroporto da Madeira" (Madeira Airport) with no schedulled date to happen any change... A previously unpublished pic of Niki's A320 OE-LEU departing from Madeira. Check a few more pics from that day, HERE

It's been quite a long time since I last photographed a Niki. Last Friday (the same day of Thomson's Family Life G-FDZG, check HERE ), got one, arriving / departing runway 23. Unfortunatelly was OE-LEU, already carrying the Air Berlin / Niki livery, which looks quite bad, specially comparing to old regular "Fly Niki" livery.... Still...here's the pics... Landing on runway 23 with Ponta de S.Lourenço in the back  And a couple of pics from the departure, also from runway 23 On the back, a British Airways A320 getting ready for the departure back to London Gatwick