The last day of this year said farewell to us in Bratislava with nice weather and two charters with automotive cargo to Birmingham, this B737-300F of KlasJet, still wearing its former Bluebird Cargo colours, and AN-26 of Vulkan Air UR-CQE.
In a rainy morning this Boeing 737-300 of ALK Airlines left Bratislava today with tourists to Salalah in Oman (with a technical stop in Diyarbakir in Turkey).
In the pre-Christmas period several DHL flights to Bratislava have been operated by Boeing 767-200F of Star Air instead of the usual A300-600F, moreover RAF-Avia established a connection to Skopje with AN-26.
The first Sukhoi Superjet in Rossiya Airlines colours left Bratislava today after repainting from Aeroflot colours in horrible weather and with extreme steep take-off in strong headwind.
Finally Bratislava enjoyed after a long time intensed traffic with "automotive" cargo, too. After a nightly Saab 340 of Nyxair (ES-NSG) two more Saabs arrived in the morning, one of Fleet Air International (HA-TAG) and the other of Airest (ES-LSI), accompanied by this AN-26 of Aircompany Eleron.
The "automotive" cargo series continued with the premiere of this Fokker 50 of Amapola Flyg and in the afternoon it will be rounded up by a Vulkan Air AN-26 (UR-CQD).
After a week A330-200MRTT of Royal Air Force visited Bratislava again, this time registration ZZ343, which has slightly different markings from the previous one. Unfortunately, the arrival was once again shortly before "sunset" and in poor weather.
The sole AN-140 of Motor-Sich Airlines serves also as official transport mean for handball club HC Motor Zaporizhzhia, which is documented also by stickers on its fuselgae. It stopped at Bratislava for refuelling on its way to a match in Nantes.
Airbus A330-200MRTT of Royal Air Force transported soldiers from Bratislava to Riga yesterday, after crewrest it departed today back to Brize Norton. After yesterday´s rainy day today´s weather was not much better...
AirExplore leases this winter again one of its aircraft to Suriname for the company Fly All Ways, this time it will be (similarly to two years ago) OM-KEX.
After an interesting "sightseeing" flight from Kaliningrad this L-410UVP-E of Russian carrier Skol landed at Bratislava for refuelling and then continued to Venice.
The third and this year last B737-800 of NordStar, which in Bratislava lost its Universiade 2019 special colours and received the new scheme of the airline, left finally in daylight and in beautiful weather.
In the second half of October five AN-124s Ruslan of Volga-Dnepr Airlines appeared at Bratislava, most of the time the airport hosted two at the same time. But only the departure of the third one, RA-82047, was finally in a sunny weather.
The last from the series of five Ruslans of Volga-Dnepr Airlines brought the second part of automobile production line from Seoul to Bratislava, the cargo might be off-loaded only tomorrow.
Even with the third and last flight of IL-76TD of Maximus Airlines from Bratislava to Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates spotters were not delighted by sunshine, at least the sound and sight of a classic IL-76 was certainly appreciated.
