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Last weekend I flew to Corfu to enjoy the sun and do some spotting. The weather in Germany was horrible the last weeks so a change in temperature was pretty nice.
I left our house at 1.30pm and drove to Stuttgart airport. I parked my car and went to the terminal and checked-in.
My first out of three flights to Corfu would bring me to Budapest. Malev had a superb offer for 150€ routing Stuttgart-Budapest-Athens. My friend took Norwegians cheap fare and flew Dusseldorf-Copenhagen-Oslo-Corfu.
Anyways, we boarded our Dash 8-400, HA-LQC in Stuttgart. After a smooth flight and an even smoother transit in Budapest I was already sitting in my next flight. HA-LOI, a 737-700, would bring me to Athens. The service of Malev is ok, nothing special. Cabin crew seems pretty old compared to other european airlines. I got some sleep onboard and woke up during decent. The city of Athens was nicely lit and I really didn't know there were actually mountains.
After deboarding, I looked for a spot to sit down and relax some more hours until my flight to Corfu would be ready.
Eventually, I ended up in a rainy and cold Corfu (wth?) at 7.00am. My friend already landed a few hours earlier and welcomed me.
Now, onto the pictures. Saturday was crap. It just wouldn't stop raining until the late evening so we got soaking wet and ended up spotting from our hotel room.
One of the first aircraft to show up was this Monarch A321. On this day, there were 3 Monarch flights, one scheduled, one to pick up passengers for a broken 321 (it got fixed and returned home on a ferry flight in the night).
Monarch Airlines - Airbus A321-231 | G-MARA
Condor and the Peanuts:
Condor (Thomas Cook) - Airbus A320-212 | D-AICE
Malmö Aviation:
Malmo Aviation - Avro RJ100 | SE-DSU
One of many Air Berlin flights today:
Air Berlin - Boeing 737-86J | D-ABKH
Air Berlin (Belair) - Airbus A320-214 | HB-IOW
Austrian Airlines - Airbus A320-214 | OE-LBS
Haribär:
TUIfly - Boeing 737-8K5 | D-ATUD
One of my personal favourites:
EasyJet Airline (Air Finnland) - Boeing 757-2K2 | OH-AFI
Nightshot overview of the airport from our hotel room:
The other day was just perfect. Sun and around 25°C.
Aegean leaving for Athens:
Aegean Airlines - Airbus A320-232 | SX-DVV
I love that background:
JAT Airways - Boeing 737-3H9 | YU-ANF
Sunday is the day were lots of french charter airlines fly into Corfu:
Europe Airpost - Boeing 737-39M(QC) | F-GIXT
Solomons Airlines (Strategic Airlines) - Airbus A320-212 | F-GSTR
EasyJet:
EasyJet Airline - Airbus A320-232 | G-TTOJ
On of two big business jets on that day:
Untitled (TAG Aviation) - Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy | G-CMAF
This one being the other business jet:
Untitled (Global Jet Concept) - Airbus A319-115X CJ | P4-VNL
Travel Service - Boeing 737-8BK | OK-TVN
Travel Service - Boeing 737-8BK | OK-TVN
Winglets on a classic look sexy:
Ukraine International Airlines - Boeing 737-5Y0 | your-GAK
This livery looks cool:
Viking Airlines - Boeing 737-36N | SE-RHU
The same Stratetic Airbus with the isle of Pondikonisi:
On Monday I had to fly home again. I was looking forward to fly Olympic again. The airline is awesome, the cabin crew is really young (and attractive!).
Olympic - Airbus A320-232 | SX-OAP
Cabin enroute Budapest-Stuttgart:
Malev - Hungarian Airlines - De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8 | HA-LQD
My 8 hours layover in Athens sucked. The airport really doesn't offer anything apart from a few shops before security check and some more behind. I called my dad to rebook me on Aegean via Dusseldorf but apparently ended up booking me for October. Boy, the girls at the Aegean check-in had a laugh when they saw my booking haha.
Again, Malev was OK. Got the exit row on Athens-Budapest which was really good to get some sleep.
Thanks for watching, see the gear in my signature and if there are questions about Corfu or anything else, just ask
Edited by Pierre., 08 September 2010 - 09:14 AM.
