HiFly military charter with PacificFlier titles and Oman Air c/s on the Airbus A310 registered CS-TEI

A big surprise this morning in Athens Airport. A military charter from Brize on behalf of RAF arrived on an Airbus A310-300 operated by Portuguese HiFly registered CS-TEI with Pacific Flyer titles on basic Oman Air colors!
Thanks to Alex for the photo!


Airbus A310 / CS-TEI / taxi in Athens

Air China Boeing 747-400 registered B-2472 bringing China's PM to Greece

China's Prime Minister is paying an official visit to Greece and arrived today on an Air China Boeing 747-400 registered B-2472. The flight, Air China 031, landed at 13:50L on runway 03R of Athens and was parked on the VIP stand.

Boeing 747-400 / B-2472 / about to land on rwy 03L

F.C. Copenhagen arrived on Tor Air Boeing 737-400 registered SE-RJA

F.C. Copenhagen arrived today in Athens to play a Champions League match against Panathinaikos. The team arrived on a Tor Air Boeing 737-400 registered SE-RJA from CPH (Copenhagen, Denmark) at 13:45L.

Boeing 737-400 / SE-RJA / arriving in Athens from Copenhagen

Aircraft traffic over Hellenic airspace on a time lapse movie

Here is a small time lapse video that was created from pictures taken from www.rdrinfo.net and show the aircraft traffic over the Hellenic airspace on a 14 hour period. The goal was to create a 24 hour time lapse movie but unfortunately after 16:00L there was a problem with connection to the website. In the movie you can clearly see the movement of the aircrafts on specific airways, the departures and arrivals in Athens, Thessaloniki and Rhodes airport and more!
Thanks a lot to www.rdrinfo.net for the great service to all the aviation enthusiasts! Keep up the good work!

Enough with the details, here is the movie:

Hellenic Imperial Boeing 747-200 registered SX-TIE departed to KHI

Hellenic Imperial Boeing 747-200 registered SX-TIE departed today at 12:15L as IMP311P to KHI (Karachi, Pakistan)


Boeing 747-200 / SX-TIE / departing from rwy 03R to KHI

Air Europa Airbus A330-200 registered EC-JQQ in Athens

Air Europa's Airbus A330-200 registered EC-JQQ arrived yesterday in Athens on a charter flight from MAD (Madrid, Spain) as UX847.

Thanks to Panagiotis Pietris for the photo:

Airbus A330-200 / EC-JQQ / arriving from MAD

Turkish Airlines special 2010 FIBA World Championship B738 registered TC-JHF in Athens

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 registered TC-JHF that is painted in the special 2010 FIBA World Championship arrived today in Athens on the scheduled IST-ATH afternoon flight.


Boeing 737 / TC-JHF / about to land on rwy 03L

Skywings International Boeing 737-300 (winglets) registered Z3-AAJ in Athens

Skywings International Boeing 737-300 (with winglets) registered Z3-AAJ arrived today in Athens from SPU (Split, Croatia) as flight FLM302.


Boeing 737 / Z3-AAJ / about to land on rwy 03R

Today's special movements page

As of today I will be starting to post all the important movements of each day for Athens airport on a page, so people to know in advance what to expect. Unfortunately these info are not available many hours in advance so you would have to check back regularly.


You can access the page at anytime by clicking the "Today's special movements - DATE_HERE @ UPDATE_TIME_HERE(L)" that you see below the blog's header or by following this links:

http://athensairport.blogspot.com/p/todays-special-movements-16092010.html
or shorter
http://bit.ly/d2yQXh

The page will be updated whenever new info come for an upcoming special movement and the page title would be changed with the new updated time so that you know when there is something new posted. The previous day's movements would be kept for one more day at the end of the post. This service is still in beta and might be stopped at any time.

Lufthansa B747-400M registered D-ABTC on the Frankfurt-Athens flight

The scheduled LH 3382/3383 Lufthansa flight from FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) to Athens was operated today, out of a sudden, by a Boeing Boeing 747-430M registered D-ABTC instead of the usual Airbus A321! If I am not mistaken this is the first Lufthansa B747 to visit Athens airport.


Boeing 747 / D-ABTC / departing from rwy 03R back to Frankfurt