The first Boeing 787-9 in the fleet of Austrian Airlines visited Bratislava today on 5 training flights, for the moment it is all white without any carrier markings.
Another memory of the past back home and the beginnings of SkyEurope Airlines... Venezuelan carrier Albatros Airlines uses their sole EMB-120 Brasilia on short hops to Curacao, which are visible neither before nor after on FR24, the more interesting catch for me it was.
On the second flight of Mavi Gök Airlines in this season this B737-900 of a sister Ukrainian company Skyline Express Airline visited Bratislava today, last year it operated as TC-MGH in Mavi Gök fleet.
During whole May every Wednesday and Friday shall A340-600 of European Cargo make intermediate stop at Vienna on its route Haikou-Bournemouth. First two flights were in bad weather, so I decided to catch this rare aircraft during its 3rd rotation despite high May sun and some clouds.
Another Omni Air International B767-300 arrived under US Army flight number to Bratislava todaz, this time in beautiful colours of US football team New England Patriots.
Patrolling over the waters of the Netherlands Antilles islands is done daily from the airport at Curacao by a pair of DHC-8s of the Caribbean Coast Guard.
Winair has its seat on the famous Sint Maarten island, but its pair of ATR-42s operates mainly from Curacao to the main base and also to Aruba and Bonaire.
Venezuelan carrier Avior Airlines used to operate also to Miami in the USA, however thanks to catastrophic economic situation in its home country it now operates only domestic flights and makes infrequent visits to Bogota and Curacao. I photographed its B737-400 on departure from Willemstad on Curacao.
This ERJ-190 of SkyHigh Dominicana carries interesting livery. Originally its basic colour was white and the company logo on the tail has been in the old style, now it was repainted into basic grey colour and it has a new style logo on the tail, while on the fuselage the old style logo has been retained. It is unknown to me whether the reason for logo style change has something to do with the fact, that the original logo resembled the one of the bankrupt Slovak operator SkyEurope Airlines...
This A321neo of French airline La Compagnie brought today ice-hockey team from the USA from New York-Newark to Bratislava, it later departed empty to Milan-Malpensa.
The so called "ABC Islands" consist of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, all former colonies of the Netherlands and today part of the Netherlands Antilles. Although sea distances are not long, practically the only mean of transport among them are local flights, operating nonstop between sunrise and sunset, also with this DHC-6 Twin Otter.
There is a small airport La Isabela International to the north of Dominican Republic capital Santo Domingo, which except for General Aviation also handles regional flights with small aircraft. This EMB-120 registration ZS-KLM has nothing to do with the Netherland´s KLM and even the company´s name does not reflect the conditions in which I took this picture...
After a long time Boeing 747 visited Bratislava again last night, this time Kalitta Air with cargo for the US Army. Unfortunately, the arrival was already in the dusk and today´s departure without any sun and even if there would be any, it would be directly from the top...
Canadian airline Jetlines does not fly very rich network and so during my recent visit to Toronto its aircraft were mostly parked on the ground. Luckily in Santo Domingo one of its A320s taxied right in front of me.
It is already very rare to see the "flying shoe box" in Europe these days. However, the US airline Air Cargo Carriers is proud of its fleet and uses them besides Continental US also from its base in San Juan around the Caribbean.
InterCaribbean Airways from Turks and Caicos Islands is almost unknown in our territory, however it operates twice daily to Santo Domingo not only from its home base but also from the British Virgin Islands with a mix of ATR-42, ATR-72, ERJ-145 and EMB-120 aircraft types.
SKYhigh Dominicana has its seat in Santo Domingo and its route network along Caribbean is based on the first generation of Embraer´s E-Jets, ERJ-190 and ERJ-175.
