Aviation Talking Point

You use websites like Skyscanner?

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That’s what I use and also their own site. Can pair the plane I want then with a bargain deal. Sitting on my balcony rn after my skyscanner bargain with the 757-300 return on Thursday.

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like @Hirohitoswaifu i look on the airlines websites, don’t trust any other places

Fair enough.

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Planes I have flew on (2025 update):

  1. Airbus A320 (smallest)
  2. B737 max 8 and max 8-200 (biggest)
  3. B737-800

Airlines I have flew on (2025 update):

  • LOT
  • Enter air
  • Ryanair
  • Malta air
  • Buzz
  • Smartwings
  • Lauda Europe

Airports I have flew to/from(2025 update):

  • WAW
  • AYT
  • PMI
  • WMI
  • CFU
  • TGD
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I’ll join you on that,

Planes I have flown on 2025,

E175 (smallest),

A318,

A319,

A320,

A320NEO,

A340-600,

A380-800 (Biggest),

787-9,

Soon to add 757-300 to the list.

Airlines I’ve flown on,

  • Air France,

  • easyJet,

  • Lufthansa,

  • Delta (Republic Airlines),

  • Soon to fly Condor & Eurowings,

Airports,

  • MAN,
  • Edit: CDG,
  • Edit: FLR
  • FRA,
  • BOS,
  • JFK,
  • MUC,
  • PMI,
  • SOON TO ADD DUS.
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Looks like it’ll be D-ABOK if you’re on DE1775.

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That’s the flight, FR24 hasn’t got the info on it yet. Wanted D-ABON but at least I got to see her this morning. Got lucky and my hotel room is 6th floor, looking at the departures. Sadly, cause of the wind direction, couldn’t get a good spot for decent side-on photos at the airport.

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I was fortunate enough to have ABON on my first 757-300 flight, followed by the recently withdrawn ABOJ for my second. You’ll have the Thomas Cook cabin though, as it seems only the 757s which got the stripes had a cabin refurbishment.

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Oooh that should be exciting. Didn’t purchase my seat, hoping they’d give me some nice ones and I got a window seat in row 7 so not too bad. I’ll make sure to take some pictures :joy:

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I had 5 on my last flight, I always thought rows 1 to 7 were always Business on Condor? Unless they’ve reduce it with the summer peak over.

You really do realise how long a 757-300 is when you sit towards the front.

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Not sure. Gave me the option from row 3 onwards but I wanted to save the €10 and pray :rofl:. I’m really looking forward to it tbh, with my in flight pork too.

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Guess I’ll join in on the party:

Aircraft:

777-200ER

777-300ER

Cessna 172

A320-200

A321-200

A350-100

Airlines:

British Airways

Virgin Atlantic

Titan (lease)

Airports:

LHR

LGW

VRN

ATL

SAN

GMU

AGP

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It’s great, I’m surprised to see that few rows of Business, as it was the full cabin on my flight back in June. Either way, you’ll have a great flight as I’ve been really impressed with Condor on both my flights with them.

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My list:

737
738
739
739er
38m
39m
e175
e190
c208
c172
sr20a
A359
789
773er
a319
a320
a321
a321neo
a330neo

I’ve been to way more airports than i could probably name of the top of my head but I usually fly out of sea or sfo.

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That’s interesting! I’ll join as well:

Aircraft:
CRJ2
SU95
E190
A319
A320
A20N
A321
A21NX
B738
B739
A333
A359
B77W

Airlines:
Aeroflot
S7 Airlines
Pobeda
Nordwind
Air China
China Eastern Airlines
Azimuth
Jeju Air
Korean Air
Rossiya
Ural Airlines
RusLine

Airports:
SVO / VKO / DME / LED / SIP / GMP / AER / ROV / CJU / MMK / PEK / PKX / KRR / ICN / IST / KGD / PVG / ULV / GOJ / IAR / KZN / MSQ / PUS

November–December 2025:
/ MSQ / PEK / CAN / DYG / CKG / WNZ / PVG / SHA / TAO / TFU / SZX /

China Southern Airlines
Shandong Airlines

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You know what I’ll join in from the first flight after Covid to now, and i am going to include the Registration of each aircraft i flew.

Time line (2023-2025)

Aircraft
A320-200
A321NEO
737-800
737-MAX 8
ATR72

Airline
Aer Lingus
Emerald Airlines
Ryanair
Buzz
Malta Air
Freebird Airlines

Airports i have flown
Dublin - DUB
Wroclaw - WRO
Barcelona - BCN
Donegal - CFN
Dalaman - DLM
Amsterdam - AMS

Each individual aircraft registration i have flewn

EI-EXE (737-800)
SP-RSE (737-800)
TC-FHL (A320-200)
TC-FHP (A320-200)
EI-DVK (A320-200)
EI-DEL (A320-200)
EI-DEE (A320-200) (Flew on her twice)
EI-DEG (A320-200) (Rugby livery at the time)
EI-GPN (ATR72)
EI-HNA (ATR72)
EI-LRG (A321NEO)
EI-IKD (737-MAX 8)
9H-QDX (737-800)

And a bit of something after flying on one of them.

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Looking at all these new suggestion posts kind of made me feel some nostalgia, so for the last couple of days Ive been binge watching old planespotting videos from the 90s, 2000s, and early 2010s(runway action by JustPlanes), and boy do I wish I could be an adult back then because it seemed everything was so much more interesting then it is now. Back when there were concordes, trijets, quadjets, more 747s and a380s, so many different manufacturers and variants for each aircraft, so many interesting and multicolored…

But now, every livery seems eurowhite, every aircraft seems to be a 737, a320, a350 or 777, maybe a crj or an Embraer on a good day. It’s cool to see how much tech has advanced in the last decade, ad the same time there was just something that hit different about those older aircraft. I can just Imagine how nice it would be to plane spot in the late 2000s though at a time where you could see an a380, 747, and md11 side by side…

Thats just my opinion, some may say the technological point of view is better than the aesthetic, but I just wish planespotting in these old eras in something I could have experienced for myself. What do ya’ll think.

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Nah, you’re 100% right. Watching the takeoffs at PMI today and was literally waiting for a Volotea A319 at one point due to the myriad of Ryanair and tui 737s, Lauda, eurowings and easyJet a320s. The atrs and crjX of air nostrum were a godsend as well as condors stripey 757s. I miss the days of going on YouTube in 2011 and watching plane vids from 2007 and such. So much more variety and wacky airlines and these 747 classics have really brought that nostalgia flowing back, tho the 757 announcement did that too. Big thanks to Charlie and the team. God I feel old :rofl:. I’d love for nothing more than some trijet smoke and md80s buzzing around, even for the 717 to get a NG edition, with wacky half thought out liveries with all sorts of colours.

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Looks like you ended up with ABOM instead, red stripes one. ABOM and ABOI (blue stripes) are the last 2 757s with stripes in service.

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