Probably the most precious catch among Venezuelan carriers, somehow main aim of this Latin American trip, is this MD-83 operated by Venezolana. As it is not visible on FR24 and operates really unregularly, it flew over my head around noon when I already gave up my waiting at the seaside near the airport. Luckily later, during an apron visit, it was still parked there in its full beauty and they even removed the stairs for us :-)
Low-cost carrier Arajet has its seat in Santo Domingo and operates not only in the region, but also to Canada. I used it for my transport back to Bogota and thanks to a stop in Santiago (de los Caballeros) I discovered that the city of such name exists also in the Dominican Republic, where most people recognize only seaside locations such as Punta Cana, Puerto Plata or La Romana.
Many people left Venezuela for work abroad due to poverty. One of such countries is also the Dominican Republic, visited thanks to a large Venezuelan workers community by many local airlines, among them Laser Airlines.
For reasons unknown to me this Boeing 737-900 of Wind Rose Aviation visited Bratislava for a few hours today, otherwise it operates on flights of Moldovan airline FlyOne.
Flights between Venezuela and Dominican Republic are often irregular and some of them are not visible in the history on FR24. During my visit I was pleased by two Boeing 737-300s of Rutaca Airlines within a short time.
There are also numerous cargo flights, especially from the USA, to the Las Americas International Airport in the Dominican Republic capital Santo Domingo. One of them during my visit was also this converted B767-300 of Northern Air Cargo.
The first two Boeing 787-9s for Austrian Airlines come from the former Bamboo Airways fleet. The arrival of the first of them, OE-LPM, wanted Austrian Airlines keep so secret that after several delays it arrived in the dark. But on 14 April 2024 they showed it unintentionally to the whole spotter community during pilot training on a Sunday morning... :-)
Once a very diverse aviation scene in South America is now strongly dominated by two megacarriers - Avianca and LATAM. Luckily at least Avianca pays tribute by its retro colours to smaller airlines they swallowed in the past, in this case TACA from El Salvador.
Aerosucre is a cargo airline based in Bogota that still pleases spotters by the operation of a diverse aircraft fleet. This Boeing 737-300F belongs with year of manufacture 1985 to the "younger" ones.
Boeing 747-8F with the 50th Cargolux Anniversary logo operates already for some time, but I managed to catch it only recently at Vienna during evening´s arrival from Hong Kong via Ashgabat.
This 43-years old Boeing 737-200 started its career at Lufthansa and today still flies, after modification into cargo version, from Bogota with Aerosucre.
Avianca, the second oldest airline in the world, celebrated 100 years of existence in 2019 and for this reason applied retro colours from the 1960s to this A320.
There are 3 Boeing 737-400Fs in the fleet of AerCaribe and they operate from Bogota to other countries of Latin America. In the background of the taxiing aircraft is part of the airbase of the Colombian Air Force.
The first landing of Air Canada logojet "Disney Wish" C-FVLX at Vienna on 04 April 2024 did not work out, as the weather was awful. Today it luckily repeated the same route and with success, although it was very close call, 5 minutes after landing the light "switched off"...
Two L-410NGs, registrations OK-NGB and OK-NGC, which served before as demonstration aircraft for the manufacturer, departed on 25 March 2024 on delivery to Air Senegal. Further aircraft already from new production will follow.
The third cargo Boeing 737-800 (not counting the OM-EDB, which already left the company) joined the fleet of AirExplore this month. Aircraft OM-EDG kept its original Bluebird Nordic livery, a company which also belongs to Avia Solutions Group (ex TF-BBR), and departed today to Leipzig/Halle from where it will join OM-EDA and OM-EDI in services for DHL.
Product of golden Czech hands in far away Uzbekistan. The duo of Uzbekistan Airways L-410UVP-Es awaits its next deployment next morning on the apron of domestic flights of Tashkent Airport.
Although the wind was more for RWY 08, due to flight inspection of ILS of RWY 26R they used direction 26 at Tashkent this afternoon, which brought good opportunity to photograph aircraft before touch-down, including this rare Kam Air B737-500 with its additional titles commemorating 20 years of the airline.
