Some shots from Copenhagen Airport

[johanfrc]

I was spotting in Copenhagen Airport yesterday, and had a great time. The first bundle fo picture are taken at the "Flyvergrillen". A small fastfood shop, that is placed just outside the airport aera. Very popular place to spot airplanes.

Anyway. Here is some of the many pictures I got on my CF-cards:

First sotter of the day (I don't think it's looking for airplanes):


OE-LMH (Flying for Euro Air):


Adria CRJ-200 S5-AAJ:


First of the 2 SAS A319 that day. OY-KBP:


Lauda Air B737-700 OE-LNO:


Atlantic Airways BAe-146-200 OY-RCC:


Delta Airlines B767-300ER N177DZ:


BMI EMB-145EP G-CCYH:


Brussels Airlines BAe 146-200 OO-DJS:


KLM B737-800 PH-BXM:




Singapore Airlines B777-200 9V-SVB:


I went to the other side of the airpot to get some departure pictures:

Spanair A321-200 EC-HQZ:


The second A319 from SAS that day. This time in the SAS Retro livery (OY-KBO):


Busy airport:


Christian Valdemar Viking (OY-KBO) gets it's takeoff clearence:


Antoher one of the 1000's of MD-80's there is in Kastrup (The local name for the airport):


SAS A330-300 LN-RKH:




SAS A330-200 SE-REF:


A Danish airline "Maersk Air" was merged into antoher Danish airline Sterling a few years ago. But the former Maersk planes are still flying in the old Maersk colors, but with Sterling stickers on:

Back to the
Spanair A320-200 EC-JNC:


TAP A320-200


Swiss BAe-146-100 HB-IYY:


KLM CityHopper F-70:


SAS A321-200:


Korean Air Cargo B747-400F:


Spanair A320-200 EC-IMB:


Another SAS A321-200 OY-KBF:


Thai Airwayss B747-200 HS-TGF:




Air France A320-100 F-GFKE:


Efterfulgt af A320-200 British AIrways G-EUOF:


Iberia A320-200 EC-HTB:


Sterling B737-800 OY-SEL:


The peak of the day, PIA B777-200 AP-BHX: PIA has been banned from EU. Only the B777-200's are allowed to enter European airspace:


SAS MD-81 OY-KHP Star Alliance livery:


Nordic Leisure MD-83 SE-RDM:

[Mattnz]

Some nice shots there, thanks for sharing .

Great to see something different, I like the close up on that A330 .

[ardypilot]

What a rare treat- thanks ever so much for sharing some shots that most of us would never get the chance to see in real life.

I think I have flown on the KLM Cityhopper Fokker when it was owned by Leisure Air (later called Air 2000)

[johanfrc]

Currently I'm planning some more trips to Kastrup. Then I'll post some approaches which is quite a nice one. The planes are coming from northeast, flying over water. then they pass a road about 7-10 seconds before touchdown. And on that road there is a great potential to get some really great shots.

[Charl]

That Iberia A320...what was he doing??
He's off the runway, spoilers out, and still on reverse thrust

[johanfrc]

They were crasy. A SAS A321 landed so late on the runway that the front gear touched the ground just before getting to where I was placed. Those pilots are crasy sometime. The Korean Air Cargo also had his flaps down for a long time. A BAe 146-200 from Lufthansa taxied to takeoff with the spoilers pulled, and he just closed them before takeoff.

BTW. Have a closer look at the pictures. All the BAE 146 has the spoilers open.

The first MD-80 (OE-LMH) was a charterflight. So he's a rarity in Kastrup. The rest is almost the usual stuff. Only the B777-200 from PIA and the F-70 from KLM Cityhopper was a surprise or rarity.

If you ever are going to Denmark and will try to visit Copenhagen Airport then you'll notice that there is many MD-80's and most of them are flying for SAS. That's because SAS has placed all it's MD-80's in Denmark, while the B737's are placed in Norway and Sweden. In Norway they dislike the B737's and loves the MD-80. The opposit here in Denmark. We Dislike the MD-80 and loves the B737's.

[JonARNZ]

I'm lovin all those 146's, sigh, oh for the days Ansett and then Qantas New Zealand operated them.

[HardCorePawn]

doesnt look like the Kobenhavn that I remember... it was all white when I was there in Jan/Feb

and i agree with the danish... MD80 = 737 =

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice to see some photos from outside NZ; that's an impressive array of different aircraft and airlines too.

[Alex]

...that's an impressive array of different aircraft and airlines too.

Thats exactly why I like photos like these so much, thanks johanfrc.

Alex

[victor_alpha_charlie]

WOW what camera are you using?

[Zöltuger]

seems strange seeing so many airbuses and MD's, given NZ's Boeing dominance

[johanfrc]

You'll get more Airbus, MD and other planes since I'm going again on the 4th of May.

I'm using a Canon 350D with 70-300mm IS USM (primary) and 28-135mm IS USM (the PIA is taken with that lens (covered by a POL-filter).

[pois0n]

MD-80s look like flying bullets ... With wings ... and engines on the back

[FlyingKiwi]

MD-80s look like flying bullets ... With wings ... and engines on the back

I was lucky enough to fly on one last year (an MD-82 if I remember correctly) with the Croatian airline Air Adriatic; not only did the window shades say "DC-9" on them, but we disembarked via the rear airstairs too which are directly under the engines.

[johanfrc]

SAS was/is (I don't know for the moment) the largest MD-80/MD-90 operator in Europe. To day they have 47 MD-80's flying. 2 of them are flying with the "Star Alliance" livery. The rest of them in the usual SAS colors.

As one of my friends said when we had seen the first 4 of them: "I don't want to look at them anymore. I've seen to many of them already!" At that time we have been there for 15 to 20 minutes.