HS-TAY Thai Airways are one of the last operators of Airbus A300 in regular Pax service, seen here departing from Phuket spotting paridise... (mehr von HS-TAY)
VQ-BMY Russian Airliners are the predominant widebody aircraft at Phuket with multiple daily/weekly connections. This twice weekly Aeroflot flight has recently been upgraded to the bigger Boeing 77W (mehr von VQ-BMY)
TC-TJH photographing a Corendon Boeing 737-800 at Phuket was not the main target of this trip... On behalf of a Kazhak tour operator Corendon operates an interesting routing: Astana-Lahore-Utapao-Phuket-Lahore-Astana (mehr von TC-TJH)
HS-STE obtained from Air France not too long ago this Orient Thai Jumbo is sitting on the ramp at DMK undergoing maintenance works and was recently already retired from the Orient Thai fleet (mehr von HS-STE)
HS-TLA 3 out of 4 Thai Airbus A340-500s are currently stored at DMK while one is kept in flying condition. Quite sad to see 7 year old airframes in condition like this with a very uncertain future (mehr von HS-TLA)
HS-OMC This plane was already stored before the floods of 2011 and is obviously still not going anywhere... It is clearly visible how high the water was before it disappeared (mehr von HS-OMC)
N388LS stuck at Bangkok since the flood of 2011 this Las Vegas Sands L1011 is facing its fate according to rumours. While the damages from the water are marginal and could be fixed it seems not economical and this L1011 will most likely sit on the DMK ramp for many years before it will be scrapped (mehr von N388LS)
HS-BKC nice hybrid scheme consisting of basic Aeroflot colours, Orient Thai t/s and when beeing up close and personal one can also see faded Saudi Arabian c/s from Hajj lease. Seen rotating from RWY09 bound for Bangkok Don Muang Airport (mehr von HS-BKC)
EI-XLH Russian charter specialist Transaero can be seen almost worldwide nowadays at the most popular Tourist destinations. With multiple daily services in high season Phuket is no exception. Seen rotating bound for Moscow (mehr von EI-XLH)
D-ABUF seen rotating from RWY09 bound for Frankfurt. Only a few days later this service was forced to make a fuelstop at Bourgas due to unusually strong headwinds (mehr von D-ABUF)
HS-TGW Unfortunately not the Retro c/s Jumbo but who am I to complain... Thai's Morning service to Bangkok seen rotating from Phuket's RWY09 (mehr von HS-TGW)