By: T5 - 5th August 2003 at 18:03
Good pics!
The Dominican Republic is rapidly becoming a top-notch country fo aviation. 4 airports now have frequent charter flights flying into them from the UK in particular – Santo Domingo (the capital, south of the country), Puerto Plata (north of the country, nice, quite big airport), La Romana (south east-ish but very small, capable of holding about three large aircraft at a time) and then Punta Cana (don’t know much about this one). I’ve been to three of the airports and much of the time they have been crowded with a variety of holiday airlines from all over the globe.
By: Hand87_5 - 5th August 2003 at 15:18
Originally posted by galdri
The Air France A320 did not crash at BSL airport. It crashed at a small field just north-west of BSL called Habsheim-Mulhouse. It is a GA airfield that was staging an airshow.Basel is probably the only airport in the world to have two three letter identifiers. If you are planning to go out on the Frence side the identifier is MHL but if you are planning to go out on the Swiss side the identifier BSL! Kind of confusing
Galdri…….an old Basel rat 😀 😀
Bloody hell , you’re correct , it was Habsheim ….
sorry for the confusion.
By: galdri - 5th August 2003 at 14:49
The Air France A320 did not crash at BSL airport. It crashed at a small field just north-west of BSL called Habsheim-Mulhouse. It is a GA airfield that was staging an airshow.
Basel is probably the only airport in the world to have two three letter identifiers. If you are planning to go out on the Frence side the identifier is MHL but if you are planning to go out on the Swiss side the identifier BSL! Kind of confusing
Galdri…….an old Basel rat 😀 😀
By: steve rowell - 5th August 2003 at 09:51
“cheers”
By: Hand87_5 - 5th August 2003 at 09:49
Yep …. 🙁 Also called MLH since the airport is shared by Basel and Mulhouse
By: steve rowell - 5th August 2003 at 09:41
Is BSL the airport where the Air France A320 crashed while doing a demo flight a few years back
By: steve rowell - 5th August 2003 at 05:08
Nice pics
By: A330Crazy - 4th August 2003 at 18:59
Nice pics Bhoy. Nice 330 too! 😀
By: theplane - 4th August 2003 at 18:40
i can see why ure angry at SWISS pulling out….at least we have Saudia, Kuwait, Thai, IranAir, Royal Jordanian, Continental, etc……
By: Saab 2000 - 4th August 2003 at 18:28
Punta Cana is in the Dominican Republic. Like seeing the regional jets, different for the forum.
By: Ren Frew - 4th August 2003 at 16:45
Nice ! 😀
By: Bhoy - 4th August 2003 at 16:38
Ah, finally something with more than a hundred seats! LTU A330-200 D-ALPC on a weekly Charter flight to Punta Cana (no, I don’t know where that is, either)
By: Bhoy - 4th August 2003 at 16:35
And finaly, the new Swiss colours made an appearance, ERJ 145 HB-JAW landing from Hamburg
By: Bhoy - 4th August 2003 at 16:33
The good old Crossair colours made an appearance then, as Saab 2000 HB-IZW landed. I’m not quite sure where it was coming from, it was either Bruxelles or Vienna, I didn’t note down which of the two Saab’s that landed about the same time was which.
By: Bhoy - 4th August 2003 at 16:25
next to depart was Swiss ERJ-145 HB-JAR, off to Barcelona.
By: Bhoy - 4th August 2003 at 16:20
Next up was another Régional aicraft, ERJ 135 F-GOHA, departing to Nice.
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