Hello everybody,
this week I'm working to fix an item on my bucketlist; spotting at and visiting Tokyo. Here's an impression of my first afternoon at Narita. I arrived at 10.30 with SAS via Copenhagen from Amsterdam. After passport control and customs I went up to the observation deck on Terminal 1:
1. Narita is a heaven for Dreamliner-lovers with many airlines operating the type with ANA and JAL, like this one, are the most common:
B788-JAL-JA836J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
2. Korean Air B737-800 taking off from 34L on it's way to Busan:
B738-KAL-HL8244-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
As you can see the sun was almost to far around, so I moved to Terminal 2 and started on the left-hand observation deck:
3. FedEx has a large operation at Narita with many B777F's seen during my first two days:
B772F-FDX-N889FD-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
4. I had splendid warm spring weather, which was nice, but did ruin some pictures due to heat haze as is visible on this picture of this China Southern B737-800:
B738-CSZ-B5741-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
5. One of the three Japanese low-cost airlines operating A320s from Narita is Vanilla Air:
A320-VNL-JA06VA-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
6. My first Hello Kitty A330-300 from EVA Air:
A333-EVA-B16333-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
7. JetStar Japan is another A320 LCC:
A320-JET-JA14JJ-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
I then moved to the right hand deck to being able to take some more pictures of planes taxiing.
8. Not as much JAL B737-800s as I expected:
B738-JAL-JA305J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
9. Every departing plane gets a send off by three ground crew waving the plane goodbye as can be seen in this picture of this JAL B777-200ER:
B772-JAL-JA707J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
10. Ofcourse Dreamliners from ANA can also be seen:
B788-ANA-JA832A-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
11. Jeju Air from South-Korea B737-800 sporting the new livery:
B738-JEJ-HL8061-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
12. Sharp looking A321 from Philippines:
A321-PAL-RPC9914-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
13. Another South Korean airline is T'Way:
B738-TWY-HL8056-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
14. This is the old livery of Jeju Air:
B738-JEJ-HL8261-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
15. Yet another South Korean operator is Air Busan:
A321-BUS-HL7731-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
16. Another type of ANA and JAL pretty common at Narita is the B767-300ER:
B763-JAL-JA608J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
17. China Airlines came with this special liveried A330-300:
A333-CAL-B18358-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
18. And also uses the B737-800:
B738-CAL-B-18658-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
19. Peach is the third LCC flying A320s:
A320-PCH-JA815P-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
20. Colorful A330-300 of Hong Kong Airlines seen landing on 34R:
A333-HKG-BLNU-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
21. Nice to see Tigerair from Taiwan:
A320-TGR-B50008-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
22. Air Macau is a daily visitor with an A320:
A320-MAC-BMCF-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
23. As is HK Express, which operates several times a day:
A320-HKX-BLCI-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
24. One of many ANA B767-300ERs:
B763-ANA-JA620A-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
25. Polar Air Cargo is flying with B747-400Fs, B747-800Fs and the B767-300Fs on Narita:
B763F-POL-N644GT-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
26. ANA is operating a small fleet of A320s:
A320-ANA-JA8313-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
27. United B737-800 coming in from Guam:
B738-UAL-N37293-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
28. ANA B737-800s can also be seen:
B738-ANA-JA60AN-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
29. My first American B787 is seen here on arrivals for 34R:
B788-AAL-N810AN-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
30. Spring Airlines Japan is a subsidiary of Spring Airlines from China:
B738-SPR-JA04GR-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
31. And I end this set with this nice CRJ-700 of Ibex Airlines:
CRJ7-IBX-JA06RJ-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
Hope you liked my selection! You can see all 79 pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeliner ... 370874352/
Cheers!