On Friday morning, I set out for Hamburg. Unfortuntaely, I could only get Aisle seats both ways, so I don’t have onboard pics. However, I did manage to do some photographing out the Terminal.
The Aircraft for the outbound flight, EZS1023 was A319 HB-JZK, which was easyJet’s first based Aircraft here at Basel just over a year ago. The Aircraft arrived back from the overnight flight to Istanbul while we were waiting at the Gate, but the turnaround was pretty quick (considering it needed to be refuelled and the easyKiosk restocked for the day).
Here it is after arrival at Ham (note the HLX special c/s, and wingletted CO 752 just pulling onto the Apron in the background)
Welcome indeed!
Anyway, the reason I was in Hamburg was I had tickets to the Italy v Ukraine Quarterfinal. A quick glance around the rather impressive AOL Arena
The following day, I headed back to the Airport for my return flight. Hamburg of course has rather a big Airbus plant, and there’s some stuff on display. Unfortunately, the lights in the terminal provide terrible reflections
Proceeding through Security, I had a look over the Apron, with Lufthansa Regional CRJ700 D-ACPK the first thing on offer.
BA A319 G-EUPL arrived at this point, too
By: SHAMROCK321 - 4th July 2006 at 22:34
Fantastic pictures. I love going to Germany. I had never been up until last October and have since been 3 times wit 2 more weekend planned over the next 2 months.
By: T5 - 4th July 2006 at 21:39
Superb shots – not see keen on the DBA football colour scheme though. But nice to see G-BPEE in there. That was the ship that took me up to Manchester last summer.
By: G-CDFF - 4th July 2006 at 17:23
Great report and pics! 😀
By: tomfellows - 4th July 2006 at 15:17
A nice report with good pictures there:)
By: Manston Airport - 4th July 2006 at 14:07
Nice picture report there and some good pictures awell and good too see an easyjet flight for once 😀
James
By: Bhoy - 4th July 2006 at 12:34
You know those wee flags that are EVERYWHERE poking out of Car windows? well some Pilots were obviously not wanting to be left out, as modeled by this Air Berlin 737.
Everyone’s seen those Pele Puma ads? dba are involved in that, too, as demonstrated by F100 D-AGPD and 737-300 D-AGEB:
I was a bit surprised to see that the BA 319 had docked at the same Gate that easyJet had used the previous day, and that, in fact, we were to use later on, too. Note again another of those Flags.
Next to arrive was Germanwings A319 D-AKNU
And then, the pièce de resistance, Pulkovo Tu-154M RA-85836
the Lufty Regional CRJ from earlier was soon on it’s take off roll
before Air Berlin A319 D-ABGD arrived.
A Lufthansa A300 was next in, unfortunately I didn’t get it’s Registration. 🙁
Then, with a 25 minute delay, our Aircraft for the return flight (EZS1026), HB-JZM arrived. the delay was attributed by the flight deck to it being the 1st of July and the first day of the Holidays, so congestion had been inevitable all day (It was a scheduled 18:35 departure).
While we were waiting at the gate, another BA flight arrived, this time 757 G-BPEE, which docked at the gate beside us.
After another uneventful flight back, I was left just wondering one thing…
When did easyJet stop serving slimline Tonic? 😉
Back home at BSL, while walking back to the Terminal, I managed to squeeze off one last shot, Lufthansa Regional ATR72 D-ANFJ
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