Bratislava looked like a big international airport, when aircraft in Emirates and Etihad colours parked next to each other. However, even the latter B787-8 was a government aircraft from Abu Dhabu Emirate.
Football players of DAC Dunajská Streda will be transported for their Conference League match from Bratislava to Bosnia Herzegovina by this colourful Tyrolean Jet Services Embraer 145.
In this year´s summer season aircraft of Air Anka frequently substitute on the flights of Mavi Gök Airlines, paradoxically they still served for Mavi Gök last year. This B737-800, which operated for Luxx Global and therefore carries special colours, premiered at Bratislava.
This Embraer ERJ-135 of Travelcoup, which has a full business class interior and is operated on the AOC of German Arcus Air, arrived today for a short maintenance to Bratislava.
For me one of the most elegant special liveries at the moment is on this SAS A330-300, commemorating 80 years of the creation of the company. Currently it operates from Copenhagen mainly on flights to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
During my recent visit to Istanbul the president of African state Niger came also to visit his Turkish friend Erdogan, so I could not resist to visit the old Atatürk airport to photograph it on departure.
Finally on the 5th attempt and after almost two years this old Boeing 707-300C Re´em of Israeli Air Force appeared today at Bratislava. Since his last visit he received some (white) spare parts from another airplane.
Towards the end of the working week the government aircraft of president Erdogan usually transfers for the weekend from Ankara to Istanbul. However, it was never the case when I was in Istanbul. This time finally yes, however the aircraft prepared moments of stress for me, first it was delayed into risky evening hours and then, few minutes before its arrival, a big cloud came and it looked hopeless, luckily in the last second and for the last shot the sun came out a little bit.
