Planes and stuff

 This week, we got some losses...(aviation related...): The shutting of Great Dane Airlines.... (Embraer 190LR OY-GDA at Madeira, in March 2020. Check more Great Dane pics, HERE ) The last Tui Airways flight with the B757... (B757 G-OOBD landing at Porto Santo (PXO/LPPS), with Thomson titles, back in September 2014) and the last flight of Alitalia (now being replaced by ITA Airways as the new flag carrier)... (A320 EI-IKL at Barcelona, back in 2019)

On the last days, Europe has been shutting down due to the Covid-19 and Madeira is also taking more hard measures regarding the movement of people, on the island and to the island. Currently (at the time of this writing) there are still no confirmed cases of Covid-19 but a lot of thinks are getting shut on an effort to keep it like that (not likely..) or at least prevent a worst case scenario... Denmark is also one of the countries that will be shutting its frontiers. Great Dane was the only new airline coming to Madeira this winter and despite it made today's flight, from Aalborg, I guess next week it won't be coming and the traffic at the airport will not be the same as in this week's pic.... Let's hope for better days...  This week's pic, taken last Saturday, with Embraer 195 OY-GDA landing on runway 05, with a lot of traffic in the back...

Yesterday we had the first flight of Great Dane Airlines to Madeira. A flight from Aalborg, carried in one of the airlines Embraer (OY-GDA, an Embraer 195LR) Arrived by the end of the afternoon, on runway 23 A nice saturday afternoon apron.... Refueling...didn't wait for the departure, as the sun light was already gone and a bit of rain was coming...