The fleet of Southwind Airlines slowly grows and contains a colourful mix of different aircraft types usually in 1-2 pieces. The biggest type is Boeing 777-300, which currently operates almost exclusively from between Antalya and Düsseldorf.
Football players of Slovan Bratislava departed today for the rematch of Champions League Qualification against FC Swift Hesper to Luxembourg on board this Embraer 175 of Marathon Airlines.
Not only European holiday-makers fly to Antalya, but also many aircraft from the Middle East, most of them unfortunately during the midday hours, when the sun is very high and especially with southerly winds sometimes also clouds develop. But the retro livery of Royal Jordanian Airlines pleased me anyway.
In late June/early July right two B777-300 logojets of Korean Air appeared at Vienna. While HL7204 "Black Pink / World Expo" landed with dark clouds of approaching cold front, the other HL7203, which is devoted to its own employees, arrived under cloudless sky.
An airbridge with automotive parts takes place in these days between Piešťany and the Belgian airport Ostend. Besides aircraft operatedy by Vulkan Air, Fleet Air International, Cavok Air and RAF-Avia, this ATR-72F of Zimex Aviation, which still carries colours of ASL Airlines, also takes part on it.
Charter flights of Mavi Gök Airlines are thanks to missing own planes source of interesting subcharters. Today this B737-8 MAX of Southwind Airlines appeared at Bratislava.
Turkish carrier BBN Airlines operates four Airbus A321s, two of them are leased to various airlines in white colours, while TC-GPA and TC-GPB operate exclusively for Freebird Airlines and carry their colours, also on some charter flights to Bratislava.
Boeing 737-400 of Air Horizont will transport passengers of several travel agencies to the seaside this summer season, for this reason it received corresponding stickers at Bratislava.
Boeing 757-300 of Ukrainian operator Skyline Express Airline, which was only delivered yesterday, appeared today at Bratislava as a subcharter on Mavi Gök Airlines flight. Titles on the aircraft remain a mystery for the moment and the weather was as usually poor.
Military transport Embraer KC-390 was presented today also in Slovakia. Display for the dignitaries of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic took place at Kuchyňa airbase, arrival and departure via Bratislava airport.
Budapest airport did not have enough capacity for parking of widebody aircraft during UEFA European League Final and so several aircraft had to depart empty, for example this A350-900 of World2Fly to Vienna, from where it transported Sevilla fans directly back home.
Ahead of re-entering into service of A380 Lufthansa operated numerous training flights with aircraft D-AIMK from Munich apart from Leipzig and Prague also to Vienna. I waited till runway 34 will be in use in nice weather.
The new Ukrainian operator Supernova Airlines flies in cooperation with RAF-Avia with their ATR-72F on the route Riga-Rzeszów for Ukrainian post. Between these flights it sometimes manages to perform some charter flights, as for example today with automotive cargo from Sweden to Piešťany.
Hot new stuff in the rich potpourri of cargo flights at Budapest is Chinese operator Air Central, formerly China Central Longhao Airlines, which currently operates twice weekly on Wednesday and Sunday from Zhengzhou.
This A319 is operated by HiFly Malta, its registration resembles the former contract to transport employees of Airbus, its colours are from the now defunct Icelandic operator Nice Air and currently flies on behalf of Air Malta.
Leased B737-800s of KlasJet, still wearing basic Ukraine International Airlines colours, operate sometimes on charter flights of FlyEgypt. Aircraft LY-PMI appeared today at Bratislava.
