MAN 09/09 & 10/09/2012

Hello everybody!

As you might know after having read the first part of this report on a week-end in Belfast, this second part concentrates on the two spotting sessions I did in Manchester Airport. For those wanting to read about the flights, please click here. And if you want to read on the visit of Belfast and the Titanic exhibitions, please wait a few days, it will be soon published...

Conditions for spotting were far from ideal. Indeed, I stayed inside Terminal 3, as I did not have enough time between the flights to go outside. So, this meant shooting through windows, and backlit (on Saturday).

Anyway, here are the less worse pictures I could take :-)

Manchester Airport – 08/09/2012 (11:00 to 13:00)

Thomas Cook – Airbus A330-200 – G-OMYT

FlyBe – Bombardier Dash8 Q400 – G-ECOJ

BMI – Airbus A319/20

Virgin Atlantic – Airbus A330

British Airways – Boeing 737 Classic

US Airways – Airbus A330-300 – N275AY

British Airways – Embraer E170

Blue Islands – ATR42-300 – G-ZEBS

G-ZEBS

First Choice Airways (now Thomson Airways) – Boeing 767-300ER

Delta Airlines – Boeing 767-300ER – N152DL

N152DL

Private – Piaggio P-180 Avanti – D-IIVA (great to see one flying!)

D-IIVA

D-IIVA

Air Transat – Airbus A310

Thomson Airways– Boeing 737-800

Thomson Airways – Boeing 757-200 (sorry for the reflection)

United – Boeing 757-200 – N12109

Cathay Pacific Cargo – Boeing 747-400F

Emirates – Airbus A380-800 (thanks to my flight delay ;-) )

First Choice Airways (now Thomson Aiways) – Boeing 767-300ER – G-PJLO

Manchester Airport – 09/09/2012 (17:30 to 19:30)

BMI – Embraer ERJ 145 – G-RJXA

British Airways – Dornier 328Jet – OY-NCN (very happy to see one!)

OY-NCN (and Ryanair B737-800)

OY-NCN

Swiss – Airbus A320 – HB-IJS (“Niederhasli”)

KLM – Boeing 737-800 – PH-BGB

PIA Pakistan International Airlines – Boeing 777-300ER – AP-BHV (“Thar”)

British Airways – Dornier 328Jet – OY NCL (sweet, a second one!)

EasyJet – Airbus A320 – G-EZUM

OY-NCN and OY-NCL : 2 Do328 in a picture, love it!

SAS – MD83 – OY-KHU

Aurigny Air Services – ATR72-200 – G-COBO (love the colors and tail!)

Ryanair – Boeing 737-800 –EI-EVC and the competition: EasyJet Airbus

British Airways – Airbus A321 – G-EUXI

Brussels Airlines – Bombardier Dash8 Q400 – G-ECOI

Thomas Cook – Boeing 767-300 – G-TCCB

Flybe – Dornier 328 prop?

Air France – Airbus A321 – F-GTAU

Ryanair – Boeing 737-800 – EI-ENL

Conclusion

Although the conditions were far from perfect from a photography point of view, I absolutely do not regret my stopovers in Manchester, as I enjoyed a big diversity of airlines and plane types!

Thank you for reading, and hope you will enjoy part 3 of this report (coming soon), as well as you enjoyed part 1!