Planes and stuff

Back to December 2025, a few shots just for the record. It's not my favorite kind of shots but, always nice to have some records...specially the Sunclass airplanes...the first ones I publish from 2025... Runway 23 in use. Sunclass A321 OY-TCE arriving from Helsinki Sunclass A321NEO OY-VKE arriving from Copenhagen Condor A321 D-ATCC British Airways A321 G-EUXL, from London-Gatwick Tui UK B738 G-TUKT, from Manchester

Window seat view of a Tui winglet...doesn't matter which, when or where to...just that feeling of vacation and freedom from everyday routine...

The TUI group made yesterday its good-bye to the Boeing 767, at Amsterdam, with the departure of PH-OYJ to Istambul. This plane was use in several of the Tui Group airlines (UK, Belgian, Dutch) and a cerimony of farewall was held at Amsterdam. Around here, we had Tui 767 a few times but it wasn't a common plane to see around... G-OBYE back in July 2017

 From last Sunday, Tui Blue D-ABKM arriving at Madeira's runway 05, from Frankfurt.

 Boring blue livery but on a MAX version.... Tuifly D-AMAY B737 MAX8 departing from Madeira's runway 05, back to München ...

From last year (June), a couple of shots of  Tui Airways B752 G-OOPB that I had taken and never published... Curiously, this plane already has another "life", beeing converted to freighter and about to enter service with CargoJet Airways, as C-GCJB The only other pics I had published of this bird was still with Thomson titles...

Already miss flying... A shot I hadn't published, taken some time ago, departing from Brussels Zaventem Airport (BRU/EBBR) on a TUI Belgium B738

 Was checking some earlier pics from this year and found a few shots that I still hadn't processed, back from June on what should be the last B757 I got from Tui Airways before the airline retired the model... G-OOBP, arriving from Manchester...

From last week, the first time I got some decent shots on this hybrid ... Actually, a Tui Airways flight from UK - Manchester carried by B738 G-FDZY with Sunwing titles and tail. Landing on runway 05...

 It's been quite a while since I last got a Boeing 757... With TUI Airways flight resuming to Madeira, we started getting some of these birds flying here (unfortunatelly due to idiotic UK decision to put Portugal back to amber list, including Madeira, that has around 4 daily new Covid cases, some of them detected and isolated on arrival, may stop these flights again...) Anyway, last monday the main purpose was to get the first flight of Sunclass with new livery (also the first flight from Copenhagen, after the lockdown) but, still managed to get a couple of TUI Airways B752... G-OOBN arriving from Birmingham...

This week we had the return of the flights from UK, by TUI Airways, WizzAir, British Airways and Easyjet. Unfortunatelly, only managed to get 3 of TUI Airways flights, on Friday afternoon. Was expecting to manage to get a 4 TUI row at the airport but on time schedulle of TUI Belgium and the delay of the TUI Airways from London Gatwick only allowed me to get 2 TUI planes in a row... A few shots of B738 G-FDZX, arriving and departing from/to Manchester (MAN/EGCC) Departing with 3 stored TAP's on the back The arrival, to runway 05, with some wind... touch down with TUI Belgium B737MAX OO-TMB taxiing to the holding point on Charlie Push-back and positioned departure back to Manchester...

Apesar do título inglês, esta entrada vai mesmo em Português...mas, quem quiser saber mais sobre o que me lembrou o título, Googlem sobre o Paul Revere...(ou vejam esta página, por exemplo...) G-FDZZ, 29.Nov.2016 De qualquer forma, após muito tempo, tivemos hoje, finalmente, o regresso dos voos com origem no Reino Unido. Não tive qualquer oportunidade de ir ao aeroporto hoje mas, para registo futuro, fica a entrada: 3 voos da TUI UK (todos em B738, durante a manhã): - G-FDZS, de Birmingham - G-TAWS, de Manchester - G-TAWX, de London Gatwick e que fica em night-stop, saindo amanhã. 1 BA: - G-TTNF, de Londres Gatwick Para amanhã, temos o regresso da WizzAir, de Londres - Luton...

TUI Airways (TUI UK) made its first after-Covid flight to Madeira on October, 26 but that route didn't last long... Due to last British Goverment restrictions on vacations abroad, yesterday (a couple of weeks after restarting...) was the last flight, at least for a few more weeks, suspending the only route they began...London Gatwick B738 G-FDZF on final to runway 05...

From the same day of Great Dane Airlines premiere (08.Feb.2020, check HERE ) some shots of the arrival of TUI Belgium OO-TNB, arriving 5 hours late, from Tenerife South, on a direct entry to runway 23, when the visibility over Ponta de S.Lourenço was quite bad... It came in quite fast coming to a stop after taxiway Charlie, going to the end of the runway for the backtrack... reverses and spoillers on after landing on runway 23 despite the black clouds and bad visibility to the east of the island, at the airport there was a nice late afternoon sunlight still closing the reverses, after a fast landing on runway 23

From September, a couple of shots of the arrival of TUI Belgium special livery Family Life, B738 OO-JAF. Had already published a few pics of the departure (Photo of the Week), taken from a spot I usually don't go, check HERE

Allways great to see some special liveries! Not many coming to Madeira these days. For TUI Belgium's B738 with the Family Life livery (OO-JAF) decided to go to a spot where I hadn't been for quite a while...turned out the right choice, as it took off right in front of me, back to Brussels OO-JAF rotating...

TUI UK B752 G-OOBE ready for push-back Always a pleasure to see a B757...it's been a while since I last got a TUI Uk 757...looking at my files, this year still hadn't processed any TUI plane photo...don't really know if I didn't get any or got it but still are on the unprocessed folders...still, a nice catch anyway... On the back, Jet2 B737 G-JZBM taxiing to runway 05

For this Week's highlight Photo...a window shot on board a TUI plane, while passing by north of Porto Santo Island! This one goes for the local spotters ;)

A first for me... Inflight shot from a TUI B738, departing from Madeira's runway 05...

Another batch of pics from the day of the visit of the Portugal Spotters at Madeira: The arrival and departure of Travel Service B738 OK-TVS... landing on runway 05 tails on the apron, not as blue as it used to be on monday mornings--- Meanwhile, the runway changed and the take-off was from runway 23