Paris-Charles de Gaulle 31-08-2012

[LifelinerOne]

It was time to do some spotting again. I first planned to go to Frankfurt, as I haven't visited that place for quite some time now. However, the weather forecast looked terrible and also Lufthansa was going on a strike.

So, I cancelled my hotelreservation near Frankfurt and set course to Paris. On Friday the weather was a little cloudy, but Saturday was great and sunny. Here is an impression of the planes seen Friday.

I started in the approach for runway 26L.

1. When arriving, I needed to look twice as I first thought an Air France B737 was coming in... But it was Air Italy:

B737-ITA-EIIGU-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

2. Always nice to catch some local charter traffic, like this Air Mediterranee A321:

A321-MED-FGYAP-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

3. Emirates is also sending the big beast to CDG:

A388-EKA-A6EDI-CDG31aug12-2 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

4. Very nice XL A330-300, leased from Orbest:

A333-XLA-ECLEQ-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

5. Aigle Azur, normally only to be seen at Orly, is now also operating from Charles de Gaulle:

A319-AIG-FHCZI-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

Next I decided to go to Le Bourget, which was a disappointment. While driving at the small road behind the Air France Industrie hangars, I was stopped by the Gendarmes and asked to leave, despite my spotting license. So, no pics from LBG..

Back at CDG, I went to the approach for 27L/R:

6. Hello, Hello!:

A320-HEL-HBJIZ-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

7. Still going strong, these A310's from the Armee de l'Air:

A313-FAF-FRADA-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

8. Still to be seen at Paris, JAL, this one in the old colours:

B773-JAL-JA736J-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

9. Nice to catch this A330 from TAM in Star Alliance-colours:

A332-TAM-PTMVM-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

10. Another long Triple from Japan:

B773-ANA-JA734A-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

11. Friday was a little slow with FedEx, but always nice to catch a MD-11F:

MD11F-FDX-N576FE-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

12. One of the reasons to go to Paris, the Air France WhaleJets:

A388-AFR-FHPJF-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

13. Great looking Qatar A340-600:

A346-QTR-A7AGD-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

14. Turkish A330 arriving in nice early evening light:

A333-THY-TCJNP-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

15. This airline was flying to Schiphol some years ago:

B735-ZEN-4LTGI-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

16. And my day ended with this chrome B767 from AeroMexico, with those nice looking winglets:

B763-AMX-XAAPB-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

Stay tuned for the pictures from September 1st from De Gaulle and Orly. But, I still need to edit those, so bear with me!

Cheers!

[Sky]

15. This airline was flying to Schiphol some years ago:
B735-ZEN-4LTGI-CDG31aug12 by LifelinerOne, on Flickr

This airline never stopped flying to Schiphol. Flying on day 1,3,6 as A9651/A9652 (07:45/10:40). With an incidental cancellation due aircraft shortage.

Nice pics by the way!

[Pancake]

Nice pictures and planes.
Regards,
Johan