Finally on the fifth attempt the arrival of the converted freighter A321-200P2F of Titan Airways was in daylight, this time it arrived from Manchester.
Automotive cargo flights from Liverpool to Bratislava for Jaguar/Landrover continued over the weekend, although in less power. Unfortunately still rare A321-200P2F of Titan Airways G-DHJH visited 4x always in the darkness, at least this AN-12 of Meridian arrived in daylight, although without sun.
Bratislava enjoys in recent hours invasion of cargo flights with automotive cargo from the United Kingdom. Besides this Titan Airways B737-400F, which landed after several hours of delay only minutes before getting dark, also Titan Airways A321-200F, Meridian AN-12, Vulkan Air AN-26, Zimex Aviation ATR-72F and two Jota Aviation BAe146-300s showed up, unfortunately mostly in the darkness.
The last day of this year said farewell to us in Bratislava with nice weather and two charters with automotive cargo to Birmingham, this B737-300F of KlasJet, still wearing its former Bluebird Cargo colours, and AN-26 of Vulkan Air UR-CQE.
In a rainy morning this Boeing 737-300 of ALK Airlines left Bratislava today with tourists to Salalah in Oman (with a technical stop in Diyarbakir in Turkey).
In the pre-Christmas period several DHL flights to Bratislava have been operated by Boeing 767-200F of Star Air instead of the usual A300-600F, moreover RAF-Avia established a connection to Skopje with AN-26.
The first Sukhoi Superjet in Rossiya Airlines colours left Bratislava today after repainting from Aeroflot colours in horrible weather and with extreme steep take-off in strong headwind.
Finally Bratislava enjoyed after a long time intensed traffic with "automotive" cargo, too. After a nightly Saab 340 of Nyxair (ES-NSG) two more Saabs arrived in the morning, one of Fleet Air International (HA-TAG) and the other of Airest (ES-LSI), accompanied by this AN-26 of Aircompany Eleron.
The "automotive" cargo series continued with the premiere of this Fokker 50 of Amapola Flyg and in the afternoon it will be rounded up by a Vulkan Air AN-26 (UR-CQD).
After a week A330-200MRTT of Royal Air Force visited Bratislava again, this time registration ZZ343, which has slightly different markings from the previous one. Unfortunately, the arrival was once again shortly before "sunset" and in poor weather.
The sole AN-140 of Motor-Sich Airlines serves also as official transport mean for handball club HC Motor Zaporizhzhia, which is documented also by stickers on its fuselgae. It stopped at Bratislava for refuelling on its way to a match in Nantes.
Airbus A330-200MRTT of Royal Air Force transported soldiers from Bratislava to Riga yesterday, after crewrest it departed today back to Brize Norton. After yesterday´s rainy day today´s weather was not much better...
AirExplore leases this winter again one of its aircraft to Suriname for the company Fly All Ways, this time it will be (similarly to two years ago) OM-KEX.
After an interesting "sightseeing" flight from Kaliningrad this L-410UVP-E of Russian carrier Skol landed at Bratislava for refuelling and then continued to Venice.