Some pics from Frankfurt, Beijing and Qingdao!!

[Lorenzo BLQ]

Hallo guys!! After a lot of time i'm going to show you some pics that i'd taken during my last trip to China! Sorry for bad quality of pics but often there were bad conditions to make photos (night time, fog, distance)!

 

Let's start, here i am on apron at Bologna BLQ waiting to go with my flight LH283 to Frankfurt!

 

G. Marconi Airport overview!

 

Few words to say... simply Frankfurt! :008:

 

 

330 US Airways

 

MD11 Lufthansa Cargo

 

How many LH? :007:

 

 

far far away... 787 ANA

 

and a 747-800

 

My second plane of trip!

 

 

380 Singapore

 

340-300 to DXB

 

Backlight photos for 380 :|

 

 

On my plane!

 

767-300W Condor

 

330 China Eastern

 

Emirates

 

two special cs... :)

 

 

T2 Ramp

 

380 LH during our take-off

 

 

And now, Beijing!

 

what a big terminal!

 

 

330-300 Air China

 

777-200 special colors!!!

 

S7 with little one :)

 

my 321

 

oooh, i could sleep some minutes :D

 

 

 

Soooo far... 380 China Southern

 

 

737 Air China

 

 

 

And now: Qingdao. At first some pics taken from Olympic Sailing Center :D

 

738 Shandong Airlines

 

737 Shanghai Airlines

 

330 KE (i know, i know... it's just a little bit far)

 

330 Dragonair

 

 

Here the terminal of Qingdao Airport before the return trip

 

Xiamen Airlines

 

 

 

During transit in Beijing i could do some spotting... but, night spotting!

 

777-300 Transaero

 

767 ANA

 

Fantastic! 330 special cs Dragonair!

 

321 Air Macau

 

777 American Airlines

 

330-300 Air China

 

Terminal

 

330-200 Air China (before flight PEK-MUC-ATH-MUC-PEK)

 

747-400 United/Star Alliance

 

My plane before boarding!

 

777-300 Cathay Pacific

 

777-300 Qatar

 

330-200 Etihad

 

777-300 Emirates

 

 

 

 

After my 9-hours flight.. i'm in Frankfurt again!

 

330 US

 

340-600 Etihad

 

340-300 Air Namibia

 

330 Qatar

 

Trying to do my best for 748!

 

The last one: 777 Vietnam

 

 

 

The End, enjoy it! :)

[Tis]

Hi Lorenzo,

 

thanks a lot for the bunch of interesting shots from far-away China! If I hadn't just returned from Beijing myself just three days ago, I'd find them even more interesting! But I'm sure many others do...!

 

As it seems that you just spotted from inside the terminal, here's a little heads-up on the very easy spotting possibilities from outside - just in case you'll be travelling through PEK again, or anyone else reading this does:

 

 

If the northbound runways (36L/R, 01) are in use, very nice approach shots (and decent line-up shots, depending on heat haze from parked aircraft) can be had from the traffic ramps leading up to the departure level of Terminal 3. In the first half of the day you want to be standing on the western ramp taking shots towards Rwy36R (the center runway), in the second half of the day it's the eastern ramp and shots onto Rwy01 (the easternmost runway).

 

It seems like this is okay with the police. Multiple times they stopped and sent everyone away who had parked their car there (and even fined some of them), but they never even approached us, even though we were only standing some 10 meters next to the poor car owners and were taking pictures the whole day long.

 

Here three shots for explaining purposes:

 

On the western ramp, my friend looking onto the line-up. The Air China 777 you see parked at the gate at that point pretty much ruined the line-up view because of the heat haze from its APU though...

 

 

Looking onto the full holding bays for 36R and some aircraft parked in the back (before the 777 was at the gate :))

 

 

Approach shot 01 at a great angle in the afternoon. The same applies to approaches 36R in the morning

 

 

 

PEK surprised me looking and feeling much safer and easier to spot than I'd ever exepected - I'll sure be back!

 

 

And sorry for hi-jacking your thread. But after I've found almost no infos on Beijing when I searched for my own trip, I'm keen to pass the knowledge on! :D

 

 

Salutazioni da Zurigo,

 

Tis

[Lorenzo BLQ]

:) :) Thank you very much for all informations Tis! Yeah, this time i was only in transit at PEK and i tried to do my best in the fog (when i arrived from FRA) and during the night (on my back trip)

 

I really hope to come back to China as soon as possible.. and maybe i will follow your suggestions about spotting! Thanks again!