Top 5 aircraft photos for 2020

As the Coronavirus has impact aviation all over the world, 2020 has been very difficult for plane spotting for me. I didn't do much spotting this year due to the pandemic so let's take a look at my top 5 aviaiton spotting pics for 2020 taken on my old Fujifilm to my new Canon camera.

5: In loving memory of Flybe

Taken on my phone. This was taken on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Southampton, UK on a normal early 2020 taken in the end of January with Flybe. As the Coronavirus Pandemic started in the UK, Flybe ceased operation in 5th March 2020. Although Flybe struggled before the pandemic & promising Virgin Connect was meant to re-rand it didn't started & completely abandoned after Flybe collapsed. This was my first & recent flight from January until I didn't travel in August when lockdown in June was eased. Their are rumours since October, Flybe might return in 2021 so we'll wait & see.

4:  Farewell retro (Air Malta)

Used my old camera. Almost every airliners around the world have retro livery some still have, some don't and some left the fleet. Taken in New Years Day 2020, Air Malta on scheduled flight as normal months before the pandemic started. 9H-AEI Airbus A320 had months left before the end of the lease until it was withdrawn from Air Malta in March 2020. Originally one of my fleet information it was planned to joined Getjet airlines, it has dropped & now with Trade Air 9A-BTI. As our lovely retro is gone, few more Airbus A320neos are on order but will we see retro painted again? no one knows. Sadly it did not have a send off when Malta was in lockdown.

3: In loving memory of Queen of the Skies (Passengers on some airliners)

Taken before the Coronavirus Pandemic in January, many airliners in Europe started it's plans to withdraw it's Boeing 747-400 for good from KLM, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic in the mid 2020's. Lufthansa however is still hanging on but still in storage. Rossiya - Russian Airlines is still using their 747's in service.  BA, Virgin and KLM have retired all their Queen of the Skies so this is my tribute. 

2:  Goodnight KLM

This was originally going to be number one which is a very tough decision to choose. What you can see here is a KLM Asia Boeing 777-200 arrived in Malta from Amsterdam, The Netherlands for a re-paint to modern KLM livery including it's Asian titles. I cheated a little because the image at night time was not the best being taken from my phone, my previous camera didn't take better night time photo unless theirs extra lighting so this mobile image deserves the best.  

1: Approaching Amsterdam

To celebrate using my brand new Canon EOS400D DSLR camera, I've did a little test on lower aircraft with an attachable lens with a max of 75mm. I must say on my blog on Aviation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands back in August, this must be the best photo I've ever took and this get's my top favourite spotting photo for 2020. This KLM Boeing 777 aircraft on final from Tokyo Narita, Japan during a overcast/rainy condition ish.  

And  their you have it, I know this year was disappointed due to Covid-19 let's hope what joy can we bring to 2021. I am returning to Malta in December so top 5 pics will not be changed just for fun.