Friday, July 10, 2015

Europa League Final 2015

Wednesday, the 27th day of May 2015. In the evening a football game is going to be played at the National Stadium in Warsaw. Not any game. It is going to be the Europa League Final clash between Sevilla and Dnipro Dniepropetrowsk. For the occasion thousands of supporters had to arrive somehow to Warsaw. Tens of charters have been scheduled for the day. From small private jets to Boeings 747s. Most of the planes were 737s and A320s (many from Vueling) with the stars of the day being: 2xB744 from Wamos, a UIA B763, a Air Europa A333 and some of the traditional traffic like the Emirates A332 or LOT B787 and for me the LOT B737. Nevertheless the day was going to be a nice one. Why? The airport organized a entry for a group of spotters to one one the roads located near the active runway giving us a rare opportunity to spot from a very close distance with almost no obstacles on our way. Part of the group can be seen on one of the photos although I was part of it. It is because wanting to catch all the planes I decided to shoot the first 747 and the UIA 767 from a known location due to the slowly moving queue at the entrance to the airport.
Standing near the runway gave me also a different view on regularly operating planes, like the Embraers and Dreamliners belonging to LOT which made a photo or two of them worth the time :P
Big thanks to the airport authorities for organizing the entry and I sincerely hope for more similar events soon.
Apart of all that spotting, I had a Belavia flight to catch shortly after the second 747 landed.

EI-FFW
UIA Boeing 767 touching down at runway 33 UR-GEB
UR-GEB
EC-KSM
EC-KSM
EC-KSM
EC-KSM
D-AIDI
SP-ENW
SP-EQC
HA-LYG
SP-LLF
SP-LLF
A6-EAF
A6-EAF
A6-EAF
S5-AAG
SP-LIA
SP-LIB
UR-DAV
YL-PSH
SP-LRB
EC-LQX
SP-LIF
F-GUGR
9H-JET
EC-LXR
EC-LXR
EC-LXR
HA-LYG
EC-LVC
OK-TSJ
EC-LZE
OM-GTB
EC-LNA
EC-LNA
EC-LNA
VP-BQX
EC-LNA
 Later that day I had to catch a flight to Minsk, a surely busy day.

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