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Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 in a very blue special livery taxiing by.

Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 in a very blue special livery taxiing by.

Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 in a very blue special livery rolling into its parking position.

Today, the newest Boeing 787-9 for Lufthansa arrived in Frankfurt from Everett.
D-ABPU is the first of six aircraft to wear the - very blue - "100 years" special livery.

More photos and video: www.aerotelegraph.com/airlines/luf...

Black and white tuxedo kitten being held by a person

Black and white tuxedo kitten looking to the side, showing his antennas

Adopted a tuxedo kitten as our newest family member.
Meet Jules :)

Ironically, the stamps from this delivery were bent because they could move around freely inside that oversized box.
Normally they deliver them using a thick envelope and they are totally fine.

A sheet of Superman-themed stamps inside an otherwise empty parcel.

I've ordered 10 stamps from the German postal service Deutsche Post.
They sent them in a parcel the size of a cereal box.
Do they know paper can be sent by a thing called mail?

VietJet places order for 100 Airbus A321neo | International Flight Network Hanoi based low-cost-carrier VietJet has placed an order with Airbus for 100 A321neo aircraft, with options for an additional 50. A few weeks ago the airline also ordered 40 Airbus A330-900, which ......

VietJet places order for 100 Airbus A321neo

Another European flag-carrier becoming an A220 customer.

Riyadh Air orders 25 Airbus A350-1000 | International Flight Network Saudi Arabian new starter airline Riyadh Air has placed an order with Airbus for 25 of its flagship A350-1000 airliners, with options for an additional 25. It currently has a Boeing 787-9 ... [read mo...

Riyadh Air orders 25 Airbus A350-1000

Air India Flight AI171 crashes in Ahmedabad | International Flight Network An Air India Boeing 787-8, registered as VT-ANB, operating flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick has crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport. An unknown number of people were o...

Breaking: Air India Flight #AI171 crashes shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad

IAG orders 71 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing | International Flight Network International Airlines Group (IAG) has announced orders for 71 long-haul airliners from both Boeing and Airbus. IAG is the parent group of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and Level. The g...

IAG orders 71 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing

Different registration, but here are some slightly better photos of the NATO E-3A Sentry AWACS plane.

Flightradar24 Screenshot of a NATO Boeing E-3A Sentry flying over Neuss, Germany.

Absolutely terrible photo of the aircraft where you can barely recognize the lights.

If only it wasn't dark, cloudy and raining outside right now...

Anyway, enjoy the world's worst photo of an E-3A Sentry. #avgeek

I, a journalist, am on Signal, too. jonostrower.18 should you want to add me to any awesome and secret aviation and aerospace group chats where highly newsworthy information is being discussed.

120 flights bound for Heathrow Airport that are going to need to go somewhere else.

London-Heathrow will be closed for ALL of Friday due to a “significant power outage” caused by a fire in an electrical substation.

There are currently 120 aircraft in the air that will be diverting to alternate airports or returning to their origins.
www.flightradar24.com/airport/lhr

German union Verdi has called for an immediate, previously unannounced strike of ground handling staff at Hamburg Airport.
The airport remains closed today (Sunday, March 9).

This is in addition to the nationwide airport strike on Monday, March 10.

ver.di ruft Beschäftigte an den deutschen Flughäfen zum ganztägigen Warnstreik am 10. März 2025 auf „Ohne den Druck durch Arbeitskampfmaßnahmen wird es keine Bewegung in den Verhandlungen geben."

It is confirmed by both the airports and the union. Here's a press release published by the union (verdi) earlier today:

Airport employees in Germany (including ground handling) will go on a 24-hour strike Monday, March 10th, affecting operations at 11 airports:

- Frankfurt
- Munich
- Berlin
- Düsseldorf
- Hamburg
- Cologne/Bonn
- Stuttgart
- Hannover
- Leipzig/Halle
- Dortmund
- Bremen

Delta Air Lines flight DL4819 crash lands at Toronto Pearson airport | International Flight Network An Endeavor Air Mitsubishi CRJ900 operating flight DL4819 from Minneapolis to Toronto Pearson Airport has crashed during a landing attempt at Pearson. Videos online show large plumes of black smoke an...

Breaking: Delta flight #DL4819 crash lands at Toronto Pearson airport

Thank you @jakobwert.com for the postcards! 🙏

Elon Musk salutes

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Question: Are there any aviation postcard collectors among my followers? #avgeek

So instead of seeing a surge of people come to BlueSky from the dead bird, we could see them come from FB, IG and Threads now?

Yes 👀

Flightradar24 screenshot showing an Airbus Transport International Beluga XL flight from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the ground at DUS.

Oooh a Beluga XL at my local airport (diversion from Hamburg). #avgeek

This was on December 26th

Multiple stamps on the back of a postcard: 1x 100ct, 2x 10ct, 1x 5ct plus a Priority/Airmail sticker.

Deutsche Post: Raises postage on international postcards from 0.95€ to 1.25€.
Also Deutsche Post: Doesn't make any stamps for 1.25€.

This is what postage on my cards to the US looks like now, taking up a third of the entire postcard. 🤦‍♂️

A crew member of Swiss has passed away in hospital following an incident on December 23rd, where smoke filled the cabin of an Airbus A220.

Available @flightradar24.com data for the Jeju Air flight shows an approach from south to north. The crash happened when the airplane was landing north to south. The lighting barrier is at the south end of Muan International.

Jeju Air flight 7C2216 crashes during landing in Muan, South Korea | International Flight Network A Jeju Air flight operating from Bangkok, Thailand to Muan in South Korea was involved in an accident during arrival. Flight 7C2216 was operated by a Boeing 737-800, registered as HL8088 and ... [read...

Breaking: Jeju Air flight #7C2216 crashes during landing in Muan, South Korea

Annotated flight path of J28243 as well as an inferred flight path between 05:13 UTC and 06:07 UTC based on heading and IAS data.

We have updated our post on #J28243 with a new analysis of non-positional data. Using heading and IAS data from between 05:13 and 06:07 UTC combined with the position update from 06:07, we calculated a possible flight path via reverse dead reckoning. www.flightradar24.com/blog/azerbai...

A 3D visualization of the flight path of J28243 from 06:08-06:28 UTC. The altitude has been corrected for local pressure.

We have updated our post on #J28243 to include local pressure (1025 hPa) altitude corrections for the ADS-B data. ADS-B data is only reported in Standard pressure (1013.25 hPa). www.flightradar24.com/blog/azerbai...