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030 – Dubai 2009 – Part 2

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             There were plenty of interesting planes at DXB. It’s hard for me to believe that this was just nine years ago. I was in hog heaven.

IN 2009, Pakistan International Airlines was still sporting its variety of tail colors, and the A310 was still the mainstay of its long-haul fleet.

Pakistan International Airways was just beginning to add Boeing 777-300s.

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Karachi-based Shaheen Air International is Pakistan’s second-largest airline.

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Aramavia operated a small fleet of Airbusses into DXB.

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Iran was represented by several airlines covering an entire spectrum of aircraft.

Iran Aseman Airlines operated a variety of aircraft types into DXB, including the Fokker 100…

and the ATR-72

 Caspian Airlines operated TU-54Ms to DXB

  Yas Air was probably the most colorful of the Iranian airlines, as illustrated by one of its IL-76TDs.

Iran Air flew its 747 freighter into DXB along with its all-cargo A300

 Kish Air flew Fokker 50s in and out of DXB all day long

Fars Air Qeshm flew one of the more interesting airliners into Dubai, the Yak 42D.

Taban Air was another TU-154M operator based in Iran.

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Asia Airways showed up with its AN-12.

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Global Supply Systems operates a small fleet of Boeing 747 freighters, several of which had been flown in British Airways colors.

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Saudia flew just about every aircraft type in its fleet into DXB, including its Embraer 170 and McDonnell-Douglas MD-90

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Royal Falcon Air Services operated this single ex-Air Canada Boeing 767-233

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Conquistador Helo Services, operating on behalf of Evergreen, brought this Sikorski S-92A demonstrator

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Middle East Airlines flew this A320 between Dubai and Beirut

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Kazakhstan-based Airlines 400 showed up with this IL-76

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Azerbaijan Airlines Boeing 757 in the carrier’s old colors.

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Airbus brought this NasJet ACJ-318 as a demonstrator for the show.

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Air-India Express ran flights in and out all day with its fleet of Boeing 737-800s.

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Indian Airlines was the only airline to utilize the option offered by Airbus of the four-wheel main landing gear. I have to wonder why Airbus did not offer this option when it was designing the “neo” line of narrow-body airliners,

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Safi Airways began flying between Kabul and Dubai in 2007 using a single 737-300, YA-HSB.

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Pamir Airways was another new airline from Afghanistan. The carrier used this ex-Delta Boeing 737-200

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Al Naser Wings flew this ex-Piedmont Airlines 737-200 between Baghdad and Dubai.

028 – Zurich – Part 1

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Zurich (ZRH) has always been a crossroads between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, not to mention the countries formerly under the Soviet Union. ZRH also has (or at least, had) some excellent photo locations. It has been years since I’ve been there so hopefully things have not changed for the worse.

Perhaps the highlight of the year is the World Economic Forum, which occurs in late January or early February. The event can bring a hundreds of VIPs ranging from Heads of State to infamous arms dealers, in aircraft ranging in size from 747s to PC-12s. You can AWAYS count on some surprises.

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Viva Air was a Spanish charter company which was based in Palma. This is one of its Boeing 737-300s with a temporary registration. It was later registered EC-FHR.

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Management Transport Munich was a German charter company that used a pair of Do-328s.

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Ganalf Air was one of several German airlines that flew the Do328 into ZRH

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Air Alps operated a modest fleet of Do328s on behalf of KLM until 2001

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ContactAir acquired a fleet of Fokker 50s from DLT-Lufthansa Cityline and rebranded itself under the Team Lufthansa banner.

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Deutsche BA had a fleet of Saab 2000s which were regular visitors at ZRH.

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Deutsche BA also used Fokker 100s into Zurich

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Lufthansa Express had a big operation into Zurich, and used mostly 737-200s, including this one with Nordam hushkits.

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Air Canada had daily flights to ZRH from Toronto.

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1997 was the 50th anniversary of Singapore Airlines, so the airline had this 747-400 in special markings. Today, all of Singapore Airlines’ 747s are gone, except for cargo.

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Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, JAT was replaced on some routes by Croatia Airlines.

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For many years, Air Algérie used Boeing 737-200 on its service to ZRH.

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Kenya Airways served Zurich with A310s for many years.

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Nigeria Airways DC-10 was also a regular visitor into ZRH.

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El Al served Zurich with a combination of 737s and 757s, primarily.

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Tristar 500s made up the bulk of Airlanka’s long-haul fleet until they were replaced by long-range Airbusses.

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Here is a special visitor during the World Economic Forum in 1995

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This was the real surprise at the 1995 WEF. As I looked through my binoculars at the plane on final approach, I could not believe what I was looking at!

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More photos to come from ZRH…