Naples 15 - 22 June 2022 Dave Anderson
Our first trip abroad since lockdown
was a business/pleasure trip to Sorrento, flying in and out of
Naples. Departure was an early morning flight from Leeds
Bradford with Jet2, having seen the horror stories about Leeds I
covered as many bases as I could before departure. Jet2 offer a
bag drop for morning flights dropping them off between 4pm and
8pm the night before, with a local hotel booked this was a
breeze. Next morning I’d paid for fast track security, £5 each
well spent, from arriving at the car park to being inside the
Yorkshire lounge was 25 minutes, some passengers on our flight
had to wait over 3 hours!! Leeds Bradford Airport is still a
disaster for anyone flying out on a morning without prior bag
drop or fast track security the long wait not expected to end
anytime soon. Our flight was on G-GDFM Boeing 737-300, not many
of these left to fly on, took 3 hours and landed in nice sunny
Naples. Our stay in Sorrento was at the Hilton Sorrento Palace
with a bay view room, arrivals and departures from Naples could
be seen to around 300ft before touchdown, some departures could
be seen from a sunbed in the pool area as and when they turned
south, all of them could be seen if you wanted to get up from
your sunbed every time something took off. Northbound departures
from runway 24 (they were on this all week) often turned left
after takeoff, circled the bay and headed north to avoid the
city.
Naples has a steady flow of movements
throughout the day, the usual easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz are
prevalent and the number of bizz movements was a nice surprise
with some 20/30 a day, highlights during the week were PP-BFB a
Global 7500 and CN-LMH a Gulfstream 450.
Heading back home, the journey to the airport takes just over an
hour in very busy traffic but getting through to departures was
brilliant, no waiting at all and within a few minutes of
arriving I was seated with a runway view. Head to gates A1-11
and B 7-15 there are around 25 chairs facing the runway and the
maintenance area, nothing moving will be missed here.
View from the seating area before heading down to gates A 1-11
and B 7-15 all pictures taken with iPhone
OE-IJB easyJet Europe A320
EC-NAB AlbaStar B737-800
EC-ILQ Iberia Express A320
Naples has a large MRO maintenance facility with a number of
aircraft stored outside including an old DC-9 which I first saw
at Teesside with Inex Adria in 1978 as YU-AHW.
9H-RTU Luke Air A330 LZ-MDO Fly2Sky A320 EI-ECL B737-800 ex Alrosa Air EI-IJI ex Alitalia A330, Z3-ARA ex Avioimpex DC9
u/k primer A320 & Blue Panorama 737 D-AAAU ex Indigo A320.
EI-GHB Poste Air Cargo B737-400
The US Navy has a facility / hangar with three based Metroliners, they can’t be seen until taxiing to the runway.
LX-GJM Challenger 350, EI-DVI Aer Lingus A320 and 900528 US Navy C26D Metro
Corporate aircraft seem to park anywhere with no dedicated FBO
apron, during my few hours here a big ramp on the north side
near the engine test bay, the cargo area and the main terminal
apron were all used.
D-AEAM DHL A300 and 9H-ZTB Titan Airways Malta A321 P2F and OE-GLI Citation 560
Flight home to Leeds was again in G-GDFM maybe my last -300
flight?
Naples Wed 22 June 2022
0945-1230
MRO/Northside storage
LZ-MDO Airbus A320 214 0879 Fly2Sky (white, titles on
engines)
D-AAAU Airbus A320 214 4510 (all white)
EI-IJI Airbus A330 202 1218 ex Alitalia
9H-RTU Airbus A330 202 473 Luke Air
(outside)
9H-PTN Airbus A330 202 489 Luke Air (inside)
EI-GHB Boeing 737 490(SF) 28896 Poste
Air Cargo
9H-FSJ Boeing 737 86N 29888 ex Blue Panorama plus another in
full scheme
EI-ECL Boeing 737 86N 32655 ex Alrosa Air
Z3-ARA Douglas DC-9 33RC 47530 Avioimpex
MM54378 Aermacchi MB-326 6491 Preserved in a field on a pole to far left of the airport.
MM82009/419 Agusta
Westand AW139 Guardia di Finanza
PS-103 Agusta-Bell AB.212 5844 Police - Italy
I-SVFH Cessna 152 152-83939 Private
EI-GXR Agusta Westland AW139 Medivac
I-CFAG Sikorsky S-64 Sky Crane F 64088 Italian Fire Service
Terminal side
Just the interesting ones
EC-MBE Airbus A320 214 3476 Vueling
Airlines
9H-AMX Airbus A320 232 4421 Eurowings
9H-ZTB Airbus A321 211(P2F) 1238 Titan Airways Malta
I-PSCU Beech 400A Beechjet RK-343 Corporate
EC-NAB Boeing 737 81Q 29051 AlbaStar.es
TC-LCG Boeing 737 8MAX 60038 THY Turkish Airlines
EI-HEN Boeing 737 8200MAX 62301 Ryanair
9H-VUI Boeing 737 8200MAX 62302 Malta Air
LX-GJM Bombardier Challenger 350 20830 Global Jet Luxembourg
OE-GLI Cessna 560 Citation Excel S+ 560-6134 Avcon Jet
I-KERE Dassault Falcon 2000 197 Corporate
I-GROB Grob G.115 A 8019 Private
Dave A