Spotting In Faro Airport

Photos and news from Faro International Airport – LPFR

Summer spotting part two – APS visit to the apron Terça-feira, Setembro 2, 2008

Arquivado em: Spotting — Manuel Brito @ 19:18

Hello. Summer spotting part two. This was my best spottin ever!!! Portuguese Assotiation of Spotters APS (Associação Portugal Spotters – Portugal Spotters Assotiation) organized a visit to the Airport apron. See the photos as they speak by themselves.

Ryanair
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easyJet G-EZJK
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The bmi Airbus that landed in emergency on previous day
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Friendly Thomas Cook crew waving to all present spotters!
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easyJet
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Sterling
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Aer Lingus
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Another crew responding to the participation of the spotters! This time a Transavia…
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… and can you guess the registration? :)
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Another easyJet landing
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Flyglobespan crew waving!
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Registration G-CEJO for Flyglobespan.
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This Monarch is known by me as “The Spirit of Monarch” because the aircraft was from Spirit Airlines and the other reason is the nice landings and take-offs sometimes different from the common!
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Jet2…
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… also waved!
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Futura Gael just landed!
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Light aircraft were also present! This is a Cessna from Aeroclube do Algarve an pilot’ scholl from Faro.
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Thomas Cook landing!
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And a lady in command waving for the spotters!
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Ryanair… no words! Fantastic day!
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First Choice landings
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Sterling OY-SED
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easyJet G-TTII landing
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Waving during the taxi to their stand!
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Thomas Cook G-VCED
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SAS Scandinavian Airlines LN-ROR
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NetJets Europe CS-DRS
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Thomsonfly G-THON
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Northern Aviation G-ONAL
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easyJet G-EZEF
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G-EZEF from easyjet in another perspective with a fellow spotter also cathed on the photo :)
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Monarch
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And another Monarch (G-MARA)
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Thomas Cook G-DAJC landing
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Sterling taxiing for departure
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And for my surprise this time it wasn’t the crew who had waved to the spotters but a passenger!!
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Thomas Cook – everybody waving :) G-FCLE
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Airlink Airways EI-REX — Sorry about the reflexions
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bmibaby G-TOYD
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Thomas Cook G-OMYJ
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Lufthansa D-AIPF
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NetJets Europe CS-DMQ
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Interesting detail of this Futura aircraft
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V5-DAC. Any information about this aircraft? Thank you!
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London Executive Aviation G-KSFR
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Jet2 G-LSAJ
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Another Lufthansa photo
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Jetairfly OO-TUB
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Gama Aviation G-XONE
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LTE EC-JIB
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Lufthansa Airbus A300 (the second flight of the day)
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easyJet G-EZDF “only lyon”
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Air Berlin D-AGEB
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Norwegian Air Shuttle
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Linxair Business Airlines S5-ABL
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And that’s the end of part two. My best day of spotting so far!! Thank you Faro Airport. Thank you ANA Aeroportos and thank you to all entities that made this day possible.
Part three of my summer spotting is under way…
See you!

 

Summer spotting part one Terça-feira, Setembro 2, 2008

Arquivado em: Spotting — Manuel Brito @ 18:46

Hello. Here I am now with much more time after my vacations. As I told before I was on vacation but not from plane spotting. So here you have the first part of my spotting photos:

Futura International Airways (Arkefly flight) EC-KQQ
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TUIFly Germany
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Monarch G-OZBI (ITV2/CelebAir)
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Transaero Boeing 747-200 (I can’t remember the last time I saw a Boeing 747 at Faro!!!)
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Dusty taxying!!
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easyJet
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Firefighters getting ready for an emergeny reception of a bmi aircraft (1st photo almost with no quality because no one was ready!)
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An emergency that ended safely (The faulty engine was shutted down and no bigger problem!) The aircraft is a bmi Airbus A321.
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All the ARFF trucks followed the aircraft until it’s parking position and until all people disembarked they were near the aircraft.
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This is the end of part one. Now get full ready for part two!!