Strolling around Paris in rainy weather

Paris, September 2013

During the flight to Paris I agreed with the chief purser that I would to go with her to the center of the city on this short night stop. Despite the rainy weather we remained resolute on our purpose.

First stop, she wanted to buy a bottle of champagne!

And then, of course, some sightseeing on a city that many seem to love but which is far from being one of my favorites. Sorry, I can't help with that!

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La Seine

Quality of the photos was a bit compromised and dark due to the dull weather. And I was still using an old iPhone 4...

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Champs Elysées

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Return flight

Yep, another very early morning flight... Aircraft was the Airbus A319-111, tail number CS-TTN, now retired from the company.

It's been a long time since I last saw...

Airport action, August 2025

...an Airbus A318! I even thought they were already retired. Here, very early in the morning at Lisbon Airport, tail number F-GUGQ,

Later, during our turnaround time at Fiumicino Airport, I captured a nice A330-200 of the nth iteration of Alitalia being towed away,

I kinda like this new livery, though!

Transavia Airbus A321neo retro livery at Porto Airport

Airport shots, August 2025

It was nice to spot this retro livery at Porto, tail number PH-YHD:

One day later, doing a turnaround to Venice, this Aegean's A320neo was parked side by side at Marco Polo International Airport:

Flying to Luanda, onboard the Airbus A340, CS-TOB

Luanda, July 2016

Both legs flown on the Airbus A340 tail number CS-TOB and both flights during daytime. I really miss working on the A340. When the A330neo came, its total lack of innovation for cabin crew was a big disappointment. At least the A340 had enough stowage space and compartments, adequate number of lavatories, better legroom in economy class, etc... It was like getting the very same aircraft like the A340 - 24 years earlier - with a nice IFE system and mood lighting, but everything else way worse.

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Outgoing flight

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Airport tarmac

Luanda Airport's tarmac is always an interesting sight. Beside commercial aviation, most of the times I was there, I was able see and hear those wonderful Il-76. This time I only photographed the commercial aircraft sitting on the tarmac: Lufthansa and South African A330s and TAAG 777s.

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Return flight

I also took a nice pano photo of the economy class which you can see on my Flickr.

Two photos from Munich

Munich, August 2025

The first one of the Domberg in Freising where the former pope Benedict XVI was ordained a priest in 1951. The second depicts the amazing morning colors at the airport Franz Joseph Strauss, just before sunrise.