14th to the 15th January 2024
Madrid & Lisbon
The 14th January saw us depart MAN at 07.44 on FR3187 (Ryanair B737-800 EI-EKP) for Madrid arriving just before 11am local time. This was our first visit since February 2020 (just before Covid19 hit Europe!). As it had been nearly four years I needed a fair amount of the based airliners, nearly thirty from Iberia and almost twenty of the Air Europa fleet. We did very well on those with almost all of the required frames seen, the remainder of them being sat out in South America awaiting their return flights the next morning. Sadly the weather was pretty awful all day so we remained airside for the day photographing through the windows.
Our main target for the day, BOA Bolivian Airlines A330-200 CP-3209
Registration of the day .... definitely Pilatus PC12 OH-FUK!
A successful day with 67 new numbers in Madrid and another 6 added on arrival at Lisbon.
Up early morning for breakfast and we made our way over to the spot opposite the terminal that overlooks the runway, we spent the whole day here but again, sadly, the weather wasn't on our side.
The following were taken with a few highlights amongst them .....
Our flight home was on board Ryanair B737-800 EI-DCR, departing a little late at 22.18 thanks to the late arriving inbound flight, finally landing back at MAN at 00.43!
A great couple of days slightly dampened by the poor weather but my thanks to Ashley, Gary and Fraser for their company and for all the laughs.
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