Airport Spotting Blog

I’ve been an avid fan of Johnny Jet’s weekly newsletter for quite a few years now. It always makes a fascinating read as he travels week-by-week around the globe, taking up frequent flier deals with airlines and hotels, and often trying out new services, routes and aircraft.

Whilst his reports are geared around travel, and the places he sees around the world, I thought I’d give it a mention here because he travels almost exclusively by air. Therefore in each of his weekly newsletters, you get an account of at least two airports, and an airline.

Whilst this doesn’t help you much with spotting aircraft, it will surely be useful in giving you an overview of the various airports he visits (he covers everything from how modern the terminal is, to the price of a bottle of water). i know a lot of you travel by air to spot at different airports.

He runs a large website known as Johnnyjet.com, and has his free newsletter which you can sign up to. I really recommend it!

I saw this link today and found it quite interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7446469.stm

A Boeing 727 has been sat at Hanoi airport since last year, with nobody claiming ownership or making any attempts to fly it anywhere. It was flown in for maintenance from Cambodia, and simply abandoned.

Sadly it appears it may be scrapped.

Has anyone been to Hanoi and seen this aircraft? Does anyone have a registration or c/n of the aircraft?

A really useful site for quickly viewing aerial satellite maps of airports around the world is http://www.aopa.it/maps-apt.asp

These are essentially Google Earth maps, but this saves all of the effort in finding them.

The maps are handy for planning trips and finding spotting locations at different airports.

For those of you in the North East of England, or planning on visiting the area, there’s an excellent website for Durham Tees Valley (formerly Teesside) Airport, run by Dave Anderson.

It lists all planned movements and automatically updates them in real time with registrations, types, and other information. It’s a unique tool for the local spotters and perfect if you’re planning a trip.

The site also has a lot of trip reports, photographs and other information on there.

Take a look at www.dtvmovements.co.uk