BRU 07 and 09 July

[Smoketrails]

Hi there,

Another report from Europe, this time Brussels. With north westerly winds it means they land on 02, making it ideal for the early morning rush of heavies. I have left out all the smaller stuff and have concentrated on the larger international arrivals. These shots are from the 7th and 9th of July. Enjoy!

TF-AMF over the threshold 02:



Weekly Sunday visitor, CargoJet B762:



Coming back from Abijan:



1 of 4 Jet Airways arrivals. Used to be six but they pulled the JFK route:



Shame, not the Man City special:



For some reason I thought ETH operated the Dreamliner into BRU, standard B763:



Hainan, 3 hrs late. Normally it comes in at the crack of dawn! And a -300 instead of the scheduled -200:



Some of the old JAL A306’s have find themselves a new home with DHL(EAT Leipzig):



Looking sharp as ever, OO-JAP:



As the morning progresses, the sun comes around and you can shoot the heavies departing runway 08R. Here VT-JWU is passing the old terminal structures at BRU:



The new JetairFly c/s look good on the E190:



A nice surprise was the Alitalia retro. I got a real rubbish shot of it in Barcelona last year:



A cargo regular at BRU is this B733 of Royal Air Maroc Cargo:



Then I left for AMS to spend the afternoon there. I returned to BRU on the 9th, to bag myself some more 02 arrivals.

After seeing many shots of it appear on airliners.net etc.. the last couple of days, I was surprised to see new Slovak operator Sky2Go taxi out for 08R just as I arrived at the spot. In the early morning the sun hasn’t come round yet and all the light is on the nose. Then my Nikkor 80-300mm doesn’t like having to go over 265mm so I have had to play around and crop like mad:




No trimming on this one, it’s that close:



Since last year Thai have returned to BRU, 1st with the -200’s and now with the -300’s:



Hi Fly of Portugal operate an A333 on behalf of the Belgian Air Force:



Close up of JAI227 coming in from EWR:



Just like Emirates and Etihad, Qatar are very regular at many large European airports:



For me the “Skyteam” livery is the most beautiful of all alliance liveries. Looking good on this Tarom B737:



9V-SFD gliding in for 02, proving what a great vantage point this is:



Just a couple of days old, the “IceWatch” special of Thomas Cook Belgium:



Thanks for watching!

Regards,

Chris

P.S. If you want me to post some more shots of the 'boring stuff' and AMS, let me know!

[yankees368]

Nice shots! I caught that same RAM Cargo 733 at CDG last month

[Aviation.High.Guy]

Great photos! I love that Alitalia retrojet. I had a connection in FCO last summer and I missed getting a picture of her by 10 minutes.

[megatop412]

Very nice. I wondered what happened with Jet no longer coming to JFK, I thought it was just transferred over to EWR. Also never knew JAL had A300's(I thought it was just JAS)

[AA757]

Great set of photos... Very nice work.....


Rich B

[Cary]

Very nice set, Chris!

[backlash]

Great Spotting Location!!

Markus

[Smoketrails]

Thanks very much chaps!

Megatop, the A306's started out with JAS, then moved over to JAL Domestic and then JAL. After the conversions, a couple even flew around for a while in semi hybrid JAL c/s.