MALAGA AIRPORT (AGP), SUNDAY 14th MAY 2023.

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MALAGA AIRPORT (AGP), SUNDAY 14th MAY 2023
At the inland runway end 12 (departures). There for the period 1045 to 1430L.

Malaga Airport had a throughput of just over 2m pax in April. Usually only July and August record over 2m pax pm! Certainly busy while I was there for a little under 4 hours, although only a few arrivals for the last hour other than Ryanair and EasyJet.

Disappointingly no bill-board schemes seen but pleasingly only one total white polar-bear, although there were several polar-bears with airline titles eg Jet 2, Vueling along with a pair of Mel-Air's ATR-72s. What did strike me was the number aircraft in full scheme and titles, but operating for someone else eg Neos Boeing 787-9 for TUI, 2 x Sunwing Boeing 737s for TUI, Avion 's 'polar bear' '737 for Transavia and most surprisingly for me 2 x Finnair A.320s on British Airways services.

While Airbus and Boeing totally dominate, the number of operators using Embraer ERJ-190s has become more diverse with BA Cityflier and TUI Belgium now joined by TAP Air Portugal Express and Royal Air Maroc (both replacing ATR-72s on AGP services) and the Air X Charter Lineage, along with a sole A.220 of Swiss International.

					
	AIRLINERS			                                        AIRLINERS (continued)	
					
9H-AMP	Airbus A.320-232	Avion, all white, op for Transavia	G-TUMG	Boeing 737-8MAX 	TUI, BRS flight
9H-LMG	Airbus A.320-232	Lauda Europe (Ryanair)          	G-TUMT	Boeing 737-8MAX 	TUI, BHX flight
9H-QBB	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair (Malta Air)          	        G-UZHT	Airbus A.320-251N	EasyJet
9H-NFR	ATR-72-600      	IBR/ANE, all white with names	        G-UZMF	Airbus A.321-251NX	EasyJet
9H-NFT	ATR-72-600      	IBR/ANE, all white with names	        G-UZMJ	Airbus A.321-251NX	EasyJet
C-GFEH	Boeing 737-8GS  	flySunwing, op for TUI, CWL flt	        G-WUKN	Airbus A.321-271NX	Wizzair UK
C-GLRN	Boeing 737-8SH  	flySunwing, op for TUI, BFS flt	        HA-LZE	Airbus A.321-271NX	Wizzair
CN-RGP	Embraer ERJ-190AR	Royal Air Maroc           	        HA-LZR	Airbus A.321-271NX	Wizzair
CS-TPU	Embraer ERJ-190LR	Air Portugal Express        	        HB-JBB	Airbus A.220-100	Swiss
CS-TPY	Embraer ERJ-190LR	Air Portugal Express                   	HB-JPB	Airbus A.321-271NX	Swiss
D-AEWW	Airbus A.320-214	Eurowings	                        LN-ENR	Boeing 737-8JP   	Norwegian, portrait
D-AGWY	Airbus A.319-132	Eurowings	                        LN-NIH	Boeing 737-8JP  	Norwegian, white tail
D-AISI	Airbus A.321-231	Lufthansa	                        LN-NII	Boeing 737-8JP  	Norwegian, white tail
EC-JTQ	Airbus A.320-214	Vueling, mostly white with titles	OE-INI	Airbus A.320-214	EasyJet Europe
EC-MKN	Airbus A.320-232	Vueling                             	OE-IVL	Airbus A.320-214	EasyJet Europe
EC-MOG	Airbus A.320-232	Vueling                         	OE-IVT	Airbus A.320-214	EasyJet, Europcar green panel
EC-MQP	Boeing 737-85P  	Air Europa, blue scheme                	OE-LBY	Airbus A.320-214	Austrian
EC-MXP	Airbus A.320-232	Vueling                            	OE-LQF	Airbus A.319-111	EasyJet Europe
EC-NCF	Airbus A.320-271N	Vueling                          	OE-LSO	Airbus A.320-251N	EasyJet, NEO titling
EC-NIX	Airbus A.320-271N	Vueling                              	OH-LXF	Airbus A.320-214	Finnair, opr LHR for BAW
EC-NIY	Airbus A.320-271N	Vueling                            	OH-LXI	Airbus A.320-214	Finnair, opr LHR for BAW
EI-DCW	Boeing 737-8AS   	Ryanair                               	OH-LZP	Airbus A.321-231	Finnair, on own Helsinki flt
EI-DPZ	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                              	OK-TSO	Boeing 737-8GQ  	Smartwings (new service from Tel Aviv)
EI-DVH	Airbus A.320-214	Aer Lingus                        	OM-KEX	Boeing 737-8BK         	Jet 2, white, large titles, EMA flt
EI-DWV	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                                	OO-SSQ	Airbus A.319-112	Brussels Airlines
EI-EMC	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                         	OO-TEA	Embraer ERJ-100    	TUI Belgium
EI-EMR	Boeing 737-8AS   	Ryanair                         	OY-JZP	Boeing 737-8H2     	JetTime
EI-ENM	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                           	OY-KAT	Airbus A.320-232	SAS, old scheme
EI-EST	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                            	PH-HXF	Boeing 737-8K2   	Transavia
EI-FNG	Airbus A.330-302	Aer Lingus                        	PH-HZI	Boeing 737-8K2  	Transavia
EI-GXL	Boeing 737-8AS  	Ryanair                         	SE-RPG	Boeing 737-8JP  	Norwegian, white tail
EI-HGN	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair                         	SE-RRP	Boeing 737-8JP  	Norwegian, with portrait
EI-HGS	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair                           	TC-LTJ	Airbus A.321-271NX	Turkish Airlines
EI-HMY	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair                         	YU-APO	Airbus A.319-132	Air Serbia
EI-IFZ	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair			
EI-IGE	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair	                                  	EXECUTIVE JETS etc.	
EI-IGW	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair			
EI-IGZ	Boeing 737-8MAX  	Ryanair	                                Only noted those moving, plenty didn't.		
EI-NYE	Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Neos, op for TUI, MAN flt			
EI-SIA	Airbus A.320-251N	SAS, older scheme                     	9H-FAB	Embraer Lineage 1000	arr, Air X Charter
EI-SIK	Airbus A.320-251N	SAS, revised scheme                	9H-VCE	Challenger 350	        arr, Vista Jets
F-GTAU	Airbus A.321-211	Air France                      	9H-VCM	Challenger 350      	arr & dep, Vista jets
F-HUYJ	Boeing 737-86N  	Transavia France                	CS-CHD	Challenger 350      	dep, NetJets Europe
G-EZOK	Airbus A.320-214	EasyJet                         	CS-CLB	Challenger 650     	arr, NetJets
G-EZWC	Airbus A.320-214	EasyJet                           	D-AJET	EMB-135BJ Legacy	Hamburg Airways
G-FDZY	Boeing 737-8K5  	TUI, NCL.                        	D-CADA	Lear Jet 60XR         	arr, ADAC Ambulance, yellow
G-GATP	Airbus A.320-231	BAW                                  	OE-GDS	Citation 560 XLS+	dep
G-HYLB	Airbus A.321-321	Jet 2, blue & white, BHX flt            SP-OOK	Hawker 400XP            dep, Smart Jet
G-JZBM	Boeing 737-800	        Jet 2, silver/red, GLA flt            	T7-SLA	Challenger 850         	dep
G-JZBP	Boeing 737-800   	Jet 2, blue & white, NCL flt		        Twin Squirrel   	noted landing twice
G-JZHM	Boeing 737-8MG   	Jet 2, blue & white, LBA flt		        Agusta A.109        	noted landing
G-LCYK	Embraer ERJ-190SR	BAW, LCY flt		                also likely two other Citation 560s landing.	
G-LCYZ	Embraer ERJ-190SR	BAW, GLA flt			
G-LSAE	Boeing 757-27B  	Jet 2, blue & white, MAN flt         		MILITARY APRON	
G-NEOW	Boeing A.321-251NX	BAW			
G-TAWH	Boeing 737-8K5   	TUI, EMA flt		                one grey CASA CN.235/295 parked.  No CL-415s.

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MALAGA AIRPORT (AGP), Sunday 14th May 2023.

I was working with my little Canon Powershot zoom compact, rather than my heavy digital SLR with 100-400mm big lens. It was a bright clear day so colour looks better, I could zoom right in and out so I could full frame both smaller biz-jets and lengthy wide-bodies as they passed close to me, while perhaps most worryingly the focus is pretty sharp whatever the zoom - wondering if it is time for a new SLR and/or big lens? Fairly hot, so when way out on zoom heat haze seems a bigger issue for the little camera, as was locating and holding steady when zoomed well out. A standard set of images from Malaga, anyhow scroll through and enjoy 25º of heat in the shining sun. The weather changing from clear to partly cloudy while I was there.



Executive jet traffic was limited, the most interesting this Challenger 850, T7-SLA on departure





Challenger 350s on departure, CS-CHD of NetJets Europe and 9H-VCM of VistaJet.



Citation 560 XLS+ OE-GDS also making its way to departure.





The regular lunch-time Aer Lingus Airbus A.330-300 flight was operated by EI-FNG





Thanks to the Manchester correspondents on a certain NWAN forum, a wide-body I was waiting to see, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner EI-NYE of Neos, operating for TUI from & to Manchester.



I was not anticipating two Canadians in the form of flySunwing Boeing 737-800s C-GFEH and C-GLRN, both operating for TUI UK for the summer season.



Sole entire 'polar-bear' was this Airbus A.320 9H-AMP of Avion, operating for Transavia without any airline identity.



In contrast, although basically also a bright white and clean 'polar-bear', OM-KEX does display large versions of Jet 2 name and slogan.



Mel Air's ATR-72s operated with dual Air Nostrum and Iberia Regional titles have still yet to display any form of colour scheme. This is 9H-NFR.





Fairly usual to see Finnair aircraft in Malaga, but three within a few hours! While Airbus A.321 OH-LZP was on a Helsinki run, two Airbus A.320s OH-LXF and OH-LXI were shown on FR24 as operating British Airways flights out of Heathrow!





Two Airbus A.319s in schemes that respond well to bright sunlight are Brussels Airlines with OO-SSQ and Air Serbia with YU-APO.



Austrian Airlines Airbus A.320 OE-LBY. No doubt I'll be corrected, but this does seem the same basic scheme (with a few curves rather than straight lines) that I recall on Viscounts and Caravelles in the 'Sixties.



The number of Airbus A.320neos increases. Here OE-LSO of EasyJet Europe, an aircraft acquired direct from Airbus, rather than via the UK register. An incidental observation, a number of EasyJet UK aircraft didn't have the UK flag by the registration, while the European aircraft all seemed to have the EU flag.











As mentioned in the introduction, a growing number of Embraer ERJ.190s seen. G-LCYK and G-LCYZ of BA Cityflier, OO-TEA of TUI Belgium (with Lauda A.320 9H-LMG beyond), CS-TPU and CS-TPY of TAP Air Portugal Express, CN-RGP of Royal Air Maroc plus 9H-FAB a Lineage 1000 of Air X Charter. This last one showing the effect of heat-haze with telephoto extended looking across to the the landing runway 13.







A fair few A.321s around, with A.321NXs TC-LTJ of THY Turkish Airlines, G-NEOW of British Airways and G-HLYB an A.321ceo of Jet 2.



In contrast, each time I point a camera at a Boeing 757, I wonder if it is the last time as the fleets of passenger '757s in Europe are shrinking. This being Jet 2s G-LSAE - their shrinking '757 fleet being replaced by A.321NXs









Just to redress the balance after a number of Airbus images, G-TUMG a 737MAX of TUI, although a fair few Ryanair MAXs were seen too. A Transavia 737-800 shimmering in the heat haze on finals. JetTime's OY-JZP and Air Europa Express's EC-MQP to complete this photo-post.