Planes and stuff

A couple of shots of Boeing 737 MAX8 PH-TFO arriving at Madeira, from Amsterdam, on runway 23. First time I publish this registration...haven't been paying to much atention to another Tui Blue, lately...

A few shots of the other Sunwing B738 on summer service for TUI Nederland, which also looks nice...C-FTDW Second time I got it...the first was already almost dark (check HERE ) arriving on runway 23 entering trough taxiway "Charlie"

Time for a new photo of the week...almost at the end of summers season (probably not long for this one to return to Canada) finally managed to make a few shots on this great livery. Leased to Sunwing Airlines by TUI Nederlands, B738 C-FDBD is carrying the Sunny Cars livery, which looks really nice and colorful. Allways a great catch! Seen here arriving from Amsterdam, about to land on runway 05

Yesterday the TUI Nederland flight from Amsterdam was made with Sunwing's B738 C-FTDW. Looks like that sun was on the spot for the landing but, unfortunatelly didn't manage to get it on the arrival... For the departure the sun was already gone with that kind of crappy light that's neither sun nor dark... starting to taxi... A 1/40 panning of the departure from runway 05

TUI Nederland has been using for many flights other planes, including its sister company TUI Belgium... On this day, the AMS-FNC-AMS flight was made with TUI Belgium B738 OO-JBG with a very nice captain...as he was taxiing we noticed the open window as he was already waving to the spotters :) Hope you had a great flight back! Holding off runway 05 while other traffic takes off (notice the taking off plane?)

TUI Nederland (Arke) B738 PH-TFF pushing back at Amsterdam Schiphol  One of the boring blues that comes to Madeira (or at least came, back then), seen on the other end of the route, as it was pushing back for a departure from AMS. On the back...the omnipresent blue home team...KLM B738 PH-BXV

Back to June 2018, TUI Nederland B738 PH-TFB departing from runway 05, to Amsterdam. Back when the TUI Group started using this livery I tought it was really nice but after getting once more the same livery to all the planes of the group it's just simply boring...come on!... They could at least change the colors, like Tuifly made, with the yellow...or use the green or pink or whatever for the diferent airlines of the group...

It's not the first time we have Euroatlantic's B738 CS-TQU performing TUI flights to Madeira. The first time I was still expecting the plane to have the regular Euroatlantic livery...it was quite a deception to see it with TUI titles and just a small Euroatlantic titles...(check HERE ) Anyway, the "guy on the left seat" deserved some shots for its personal record so, well worth the trip :) Was expecting a runway 05 landing for some more interesting shots on final but, with runway 23 in use, in the morning, the public balcony was the best place for some pics, even if just getting it entering the apron and taxiing to the gate....

Allways liked those action pics where you can fit a few planes on the framing...lately hadn't been doing many of those. On the day I went photographing, for the first time, the B738MAX (Tui Belgium OO-MAX, check HERE ), managed to get this one also, more interesting specially because Transavia usually makes short take-offs and on this day, it made a real slow departure up in the air...also...no Airbus on the pic :) That's dificult, here... Transavia France F-HTVJ departing with Luxair's LX-LGV finishing push-back and TUI Netherlands PH-TFB and TUI Belgian B738MAX OO-MAX on the stands

Tui Belgium OO-MAX was the first B738MAX at Madeira. Came for the first time last week but didn't manage to get it. This week, with a nice weather and runway 23 in use, got it, arriving from Brussels...  Comparing the regular B738 (Tui Nederland PH-TFB) with the B738MAX.... The departure was way earlier than the previous traffic so only maneged a belly shot of the departure....

You know you're getting lazy on the pics when you realise you are about to delete a card with the pics of a one time catch and still haven't copied them to you HDD....almost one month later... Still, managed to save them... Tui Nederlands (Arke) made some flights to Madeira using Sunwing hybrid planes. Already had caught C-FTOH (check HERE ) but after spotting C-GOWG over Amsterdam (high on the sky) they finally brought it to Madeira at least a couple of times...got it once... Landing on 05 A colorful TUI apron :) (Tuifly's CEWE, D-ATUH still with the white nose, after its birdstrike the previous week, at Madeira)

During summer, many airlines lease planes from far away places but you don't expect to see many of those birds around here...after all, many do come with their own crews and certificating a captain for a couple of flights to Madeira isn't very common...they just do other flights to other destinations with no certification needed... So, it was a great surprise and definitely a moment to register the presence of the "Canadian Dutch" TUI Family life special livery that is also a Sunwing hybrid.... On the push-back to Amsterdam with the Sunwing titles on the inside of the Scimitar Winglet and the Canadian flag... Definitely a diferent livery for this TUI Family Life...the hybrid parts of the Sunwing with the Netherlands national color suit pretty well on an Arke (TUI Netherlands) plane.... The full plane revealling a very nice livery ;)

Uniformization of procedures, colors, branding, etc...may be a smart and good economic measure for a company but, it gets reall boring for spotters... After boring blue for the TUI Group planes, now we're getting boring TUI...(at least, before the planes had diferente airline titles...)... TUI Netherlands B738 PH-TFC landing on runway 05... former Arkefly / Arke planes now only have the flag and registration to differentiate from other TUI airlines