After additional equipment installation the first of two newly delivered L-410s for Polish Border Guard left Kunovice today bound for their homebase in Gdansk.
This B767-300F of Sky Taxi visited Bratislava. It arrived yesterday 19 August 2025 in the night with cargo from Helsinki and departed today 20 August 2025 ferry to Geneva.
This A300-600F with additional stickers "Simply Delivered. Simply Saxony" landed today at Bratislava on the DHL flight. On the other side it promotes Chemnitz - European Capital of Culture 2025.
The latest arrival to the fleet of Freebird Airlines, A320 registration TC-FHZ, paid also visit to Bratislava today. First, colours of Kuwait Airways have been removed at Bratislava in 2024 and then maintenance and re-spray into Freebird Airlines colours has been done at Prague.
Firefighting AN-32P of Xena departed this morning from Piešťany after maintenance to Türkiye, where it will join wildfire fighting. During maintenance some logos and titles were added to the aircraft.
For the summer season Pegasus Airlines leased in several aircraft, including two A320s from Smartwings (OK-HEU and OK-IOO). This A320, registration 9H-AMH, from Avion Express Malta received also titles and it premiered at Bratislava today on a flight from Antalya.
On 25 June 2025 I finally caught this special Hainan Airlines B787-9 in Vienna, promoting IHG Hotels and Resorts, it successfuly escaped me for more than a year. It arrived to Vienna already on the second flight, however unexpectedly requested and was assigned the other runway. Then it came in bad weather. Then it came exactly when I was in Japan. It also visited Budapest several times, for example 1 day after I was there and again two days ago, when I was away again in Rome. It finally went well today... :-)
Not only at Bratislava, but also at several Czech airports, the new addition of this summer´s charter season are the flights of Electra Airways from Bourgas, which usually operate with too anonymous looking B737-400s of 4 Airways.
For the King of Spain departure from Bratislava on 11 June 2025 finally everything went right, the sun was shining and also the runway was the "correct" one.
This aircraft was one of those so-called enchanted for me. First it landed on the northern runway at Munich despite coming from the south and afterwards taxiing through the whole airport to the cargo area in the southwest. And then, during my numerous Budapest visits, it either did not fly when I was there, or it operated in absolutely inconvenient times. Only now, when I already have almost everything that operates to Budapest regularly, I decided to go solely for it to finally catch it.
Air Europa aircraft visit Bratislava quite often on flights for the Spanish Armed Forces, the today´s flight was operated by B787-8 in non-standard colours, which at least does not operate completely all white anymore.
The King of Spain Felipe VI. came for a visit to Slovakia today. Unfortunately 15 seconds were missing for the sun to shine also on a side-on shot of his A310-300.
