I've posted the pics a bit smaller than normal as some people don't have big monitors and complained about the picture width...
The day started well with an AirFrance Regional Embraer, instead of the ones I usually see in BritAir livery..
Unlike the last time i was there , not many bizjets this time. This Swiss Hawker was nice though...
Quite a new Airbus from Aer Lingus (7 months old), even the local spotters left the warm stationhall to get this one in a beautiful morning sun.
The next special paint -after the Iberia, Hapag, and SAS of the last to visits- I hope to get at Dussy would be the LOT Embraer. Today they sent a 'normal' one, still makes a nice picture...
For about an hour the sun disappeared, and ofcourse that's the exact time for Lufthansa to send their Retro-bird out...
..but to everybody's joy the sun soon came out again, just in time for Afriqiah's Airbus, last time I had the Slovenian one, now a Tunesian A-320. Really nice paintjob I think.
A not too common aircraft type on the European airfields, a Piper Pa-60 Aerostar.
They all look the same , but pay attention to the RJ-fleet well! This is Eurowings' latest addition to their fleet D-ACSC, delivered as recently as last December!
An Atlas Blue 734 on finals, CN-RND. They are used on RAM's scheduled service quite often.
Taxiing in the typical nose-up attitude,I still haven't made my mind up if I like the type or not... Finnair Embraer 170 OH-LEO
Turkish sends almost all types to DUS, I usually get B737's, but also A321, A330 or A340. This is TC-JMC, a A-321-203
To give people who have never been to Dusseldorf some perspective, this is the view from the Bahnhofterrasse..
I only had eight Condor A-320's digital so far, got two new ones saturday!
And there's airberlin's second plane in the new colors! D-ALTC, former LTU Bayer leverkusen special paint, on its first day of scheduled service.
I was told they usually fly later, that's probably why this was my first Jet2Com a/c ever here...
Thank you SAS for still using DC-9's... They really are becoming an endangered species in north-western europe..
The paintjob on JAT aircraft isn't that impressive anyway, but this one could use some paint on the titles.....
MAT quite often hires other aircraft, but today they send the long-RJ.. Like the Arizona ANG tail
S7 Airbus VP-BTU. The chances of seeing a Sibir Tupolev on the scheduled service are slim, my last one was in june I think. If I'm right only Rossia-Pulkovo may send some, and the year 2008 may be the last Tupolev year for Dusseldorf..
Than the light went out, time to take the skytrain to the terminal, there's a great viewing terrace as well. The sun setting over the VIP terminal area where all the bizzjets are parked.
After a bit of waiting, it got really dark and some night shots were made. Quite difficult, especially with longer lenses as there was quite a hard and gusty wind blowing over the terrace.
"we have ways to make you speak".. Turkish puts on his interogation light
A Regional jet ready for the pushback. The trick is to watch for pushbacked aircraft, they will offer a short photomoment when the stand still...
The first of the LTU A-330's is in the paintshop for the new airberlin colors, D-ALPH is still in nostalgic LTU striping..
British Airways types to be seen are Airbus 320family and boeing 767, sometimes B757.
D-ATUB at the gate, one of the last shots I made before the terrace closes at 20.00 hrs..
Next to the old, the newer and the newest paint-jobs that airberlin sports, this is the odd one out in yet another scheme... D-ABBW
Freshly painted D-ALTC being prepared for a nightstop...
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