Only on 29 May 2024 Hainan Airlines opened regular flights Shenzhen-Vienna and already 2 different logojets appeared on 2 of the 3 flights so far. While B-1499 on 01 June 2024 deceived all spotters when it insisted on request for RWY 29 for landing, despite RWY 34 being used, today the Chinese boys were satisfied with the usual RWY 16 in use.
Creator of endless colour versions Mavi Gök Airlines presented just another piece today at Bratislava, Boeing 737-800 UR-SLG of the sister company SkyLine Express Airline flew last year as TC-MGD.
This Boeing 727 flew every day during my stay between Panama City and San Salvador, but to catch it was not an easy task, as it was not among planned flights on FR24 and also not visible during the whole flight, moreover it landed always on RWY 03L, which is used mostly for departures. Luckily I succeeded on one afternoon.
The king of chaos on the Turkish aviation scene, Mavi Gök Airlines, premiered today at Bratislava yet another version of their paint scheme on an aircraft delivered at the end of April, however this was already superseded by TC-MGN. B737-900 TC-MGT parked for a short time at Prague and until last year it was used by Fly Baghdad.
The largest airplane operating regular flights from La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo is this CRJ-200 of Air Century. One of the destinations is Curacao island, where it taxied right in front of the viewing platform.
There are several logojets in the fleet of Copa Airlines from Panama, including this "retrojet" HP-1841CMP, which received historic colours in 2022 to commemorate 75 years since the inaugural flight of the carrier.
Marcos A. Gelabert International is a small airport on the southwestern outskirts of Panama City in Albrook district. Besides General Aviation it is used as a base for regional airline Air Panama with their Fokker 50s, one of them is photographed in the morning after sunrise.
The capital of Panama has 3 airports. The former US military airbase Howard is today called Panama Pacifico International Airport and serves mainly as a hub for low-cost carrier Wingo, the only other airline serving it is Aeroregional from Ecuador. Noteworthy is the ATC tower located in the hills on the opposite side above the airport.
On the edge of the Panama Pacifico International Airport (sometimes called also Panama City / Balboa or before Howard Air Base) this DC-3 rests with slowly fading title Aereo Vias Centroamericanas S. A., even the internet does not say much about it in these colours. Probably it is not in airworthy condition, however during my visit some people were walking around. However, as at this airport one is sent away from the fence always and all the time, I could not find out any details.
Austrian Airlines joined Lufthansa, Eurowings and Brussels Airlines in promotion of European Parliament elections 2024. Special greetings to Petr Juriš who loves all logojets and stickers :-)
After a really long time the aircraft type MD-11 visited Bratislava today, the cargo version of Western Global Airlines will transport cargo for US Army tomorrow.
Long gone are the times, when around 21:30 Tatra Air´s Saab 340 used to appear above our house before landing from Zürich... But in the Caribbean Saab 340s still soldier on with passengers between islands, as is the case with this EZ Air example, its operator recently omitted the letter E from its name.
This Boeing 757-200F on MIAT Mongolian Airlines visited Ostrava for the second time on 13.-14.5.2024, a reason for me to visit them again. Original departure time 8:00 in beautiful light was rescheduled to 15:20 due to some airspace reasons and when it started to move for departure with assigned CTOT 16:02 I survived maximum stress due to a large cloud covering sun on TWY E right in the most important moment...
The first Boeing 787-9 in the fleet of Austrian Airlines visited Bratislava today on 5 training flights, for the moment it is all white without any carrier markings.
Another memory of the past back home and the beginnings of SkyEurope Airlines... Venezuelan carrier Albatros Airlines uses their sole EMB-120 Brasilia on short hops to Curacao, which are visible neither before nor after on FR24, the more interesting catch for me it was.
On the second flight of Mavi Gök Airlines in this season this B737-900 of a sister Ukrainian company Skyline Express Airline visited Bratislava today, last year it operated as TC-MGH in Mavi Gök fleet.
During whole May every Wednesday and Friday shall A340-600 of European Cargo make intermediate stop at Vienna on its route Haikou-Bournemouth. First two flights were in bad weather, so I decided to catch this rare aircraft during its 3rd rotation despite high May sun and some clouds.
Another Omni Air International B767-300 arrived under US Army flight number to Bratislava todaz, this time in beautiful colours of US football team New England Patriots.
