#A330

2026-01-07

Photo of the Day 7th January 2026.

OY-VKF, Airbus A330-243, Thomas Cook Scandinavia, taxiing out to the active runway at Manchester Airport, 8th October 2014, as seen from the Runway Visitor Park.

5 photos behind the link.
mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/01/07/ph

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #RunwayVisitorPark #Airbus #A330 #ThomasCook
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right past a large terminal building that fills most of the background.
The plane is mostly white, with a pale blue belly, with large, blue "Thomas Cook" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with smaller "Scandinavia" titles below.
The blue registration "OY-VKF" is on the lower rear fuselage, just below the last of the passenger cabin windows.
The tail is blue, with a large, yellow love heart logo in the middle.
Green grass fills the foreground on the left, with grey and black taxiways on the right.
Heavily glazed grey and black airport buildings fill the background, with a tall tower on the left, under grey sky.
2026-01-04

Photo of the Day 4th January 2026.

CS-TFZ, Airbus A330-243, FlyNas, turning off Runway 05 Right after landing at Manchester Airport, 27th June 2014, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

5 photos behind the link.
mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/01/04/ph

#Manchester #Man #EGCC #Runway05Right #SouthSide #Airbus #A330 #FlyNas
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway surrounded by grass.
The plane is mostly white, with a pale green-bluebelly, which sweeps up to fill most of the tail.
There are pale, green-blue, billboard-style "FlyNas" titles on the side of the forward fuselage, with smaller titles between the cockpit and the forward door.
Additional titles in an Arabic script are on the upper rear fuselage, with the black registration "CS-TFZ" below.
A grey runway lined by green grass stretches across the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to a blue and white light aircraft visible under this plane on the right of the frame, and a white high-winged airliner on the left, with another pair of large jet aircraft in the distance, under layered grey-whiter clouds.
2026-01-03

Gat On A Sat 3rd January 2026.

C-GTSD, Airbus A330-343, Air Transat, crossing the perimeter fence after taking off from Runway 08 Right at London Gatwick, 12th October 2014.

#London #Gatwick #LGW #EGKK #Runway08Right #Airbus #A330 #AirTransat #GatOnASat
#AvGeek, aviation, planespotting, photography

Low side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying almost directly overhead at a low altitude, with it's undercarriage in the middle of being stowed away, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting that it has just taken off.
The plane is largely white, with a dark blue rear fuselage and tail.
There are large blue "Transat" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and words such as "Welcome", "Welkom", "Bienvenue", and other words of greeting in various different languages emblazoned on the rear fuselage in different colours.
The light blue outline of a 5 pointed star adorns the dark blue tail.
Grey-white cloud fills the background, with a patch of blue in the middle of the left edge of the image.
2025-12-27

Gat On A Sat 3 27th December 2025.

C-GGWD, Airbus A330-202, Canada 3000, taxiing the last few metres to it's gate at London Gatwick, some time between May and September 2000.

#London #Gatwick #LGW #EGKK #Airbus #A330 #Canada3000 #GatOnASat
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left.
The plane is almost entirely white, with a gold and red stripe running along the body, under the passenger cabin windows, before turning up to the lower reaches of the tail.
There are large, red "Canada 3000" titles with a gold drop shadow next to a large red maple leaf on the upper forward fuselage, with smaller, red "Canada 3000" titles on the tail.
The red registration "C-GGWD" is on the upper rear fuselage, partially obscured by the up-turned red wingtip with white, red, and gols stripes across the middle, a design repeated on the engine pods under the wings.
Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a white truck on the left of the frame following a roadway marked out with white lines, pausing for this plane can go past.
In the background, more apron stretches off into the distance, with more jet airliners parked on the right side of the frame, and even more in the distance in front of a large brown hangar.
Trees meet bright but hazy sky in the far distance.
2025-12-25

Photo of the Day 25th December 2025.

G-VYGM, Airbus A330-243, Jet2, taxiing out to the active runway at Manchester Airport, 20th May 2024, as seen from the top of the Terminal 1 car park.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #L13 #Airbus #A330 #Jet2
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left.
There are large, red "Jet2" titles on the forward fuselage, with smaller "Friendly low fares" on the fuselage over the wings, and "Jet2[dot]com" titles diagonally on the tail.
There are additional red "Jet2[dot]com" titles on the grey engine pods.
The registration "G-VYGM" is on the upper rear fuselage in black.
The upturned wingtips are red, with white "Jet2[dot]com" titles.
A building site extends across the frame, with the skeleton of a terminal building rising up from the ground, with temporary buildings and assorted mobile airstairs parked in front.
A couple of large, white jet airliners can be seen through the gaps in the building site, with trees in the distance, under grey skies.
2025-12-20

Gat On A Sat 4 20th December 2025.

G-MDBD, Airbus A330-243, Airtours, queueing up for it's turn on the runway at London Gatwick, some time in the late 1990s.

#London #Gatwick #LGW #EGKK #Airbus #A330 #Airtours #GatOnASat
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left.
The plane is largely white, with a blue belly with a green stripe, the blue and green sweeping up to fill the tail.
There are large, dark blue "Airtours" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and the black registration "G-MDBD" on the upper rear fuselage.
The tail has a collection of coloured spikes, arranged in groups of 3 - green-blue at the bottom of the tail, red above that, and yellow at an angle and over-laid on the others.
The Engine pods under the wings, with a short green-blue stripe at the front, while the rather square, up-turned wingtips are the same dark blue with a green-blue stripe.
Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with the red and white tail of another plane in the bottom right corner, and the multi-coloured rear fuselage and tail of another plane in the middle-left of the background.
A large grassed area in the background leads up to tree in the distance, with brown buildings on either side, and a large 3 engined jet airliner parked facing away from the camera in the middle.
A tree-lined hill meets grey-blue sky at the top of the frame.
2025-12-19

Fuselage Friday 19th December 2025.

G-VYGL, Airbus A330-243, Operated by Air Tanker in Jet2 colours, on final approach to Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 26th May 2023, as seen from Shadowmoss Road.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #Runway23Right #ShadowmossRoad #Airbus #A330 #AirTanker #Jet2 #FuselageFriday

Close-up from below of the forward fuselage of a jet airliner flying from left to right.
The plane is almost entirely white, with large red "jet2" titles on the forward fuselage, and the black letters "GL" on the open nose-wheel doors.
Blue sky fills the rest of the frame, with fluffs of white cloud in the bottom right.
2025-12-09

Tails Tuesday 2 9th December 2025.

G-VLNM, Airbus A330-223, Virgin Atlantic, lining up on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 15th May 2019, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #Runway23Left #SouthSide #Airbus #A330 #VirginAtlantic #TailsTuesday
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Close-up of the tail and rear fuselage of a twin engined jet airliner facing to the left.
The fuselage is mostly white, while the tail is almost entirely red, reaching down to cover most of the rear fuselage beneath it.
There are white, seemingly hand-written "Virgin" titles on the tail, with the white letters "NM" right at the top.
The up-turned wingtip is also visible, on the left of the frame, and is also red, although it looks a bit darker as it is angled very slightly down.
In the background, the runway and taxiways lead up to a large grey hangar visible under the planes tail on the left, and a pair of jet airliners parked facing a terminal building in the distance on the right.
Blue sky fills the rest of the frame.
Aerobuzz / JumpSeataerobuzz@piaille.fr
2025-12-05
2025-12-03

Winglet Wednesday 3rd December 2025.

ET-AWP, A350-941, Ethiopian Airlines, parked by one of the maintenance hangars at Manchester Airport, with 2-STBA, A330-343, ex HS-TBA with Thai Airways, whose livery it wears, waiting for it's turn to go into the hangar, 18th May 2023, as seen from the top level of the T1 car park.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #L13 #Airbus #A330 #ThaiAirways #A350 #EthiopianAirlines #WingletWednesday
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Close-up of the up-turned, curved right wingtip of a jet airliner parked out of frame on the left, facing away from the camera, with the wing stretching into frame from the left.
The wing is almost entirely white, with green, yellow, and red wedges on the vertical face of the wingtip.
The purple, up-turned wingtip of another plane is visible towards the top of the frame on the right, in front of the large open door of a grey maintenance hangar, with part of the rear fuselage of an even larger plane visible inside the hangar.
A man wearing a yellow hi-viz vest can be seen dragging a red rubbish bin in front of the hangar.
Hype / Aerospace Newshypeav
2025-12-03
Luke Vegaslukevegas
2025-11-30

AUA3011: LFLL 🇫🇷 -> LOWL 🇦🇹 in the by . Took my treat for a spin, now that I earned my wings on the . Gotta say - pleasantly surprised. Very enjoyable bird. Great sounds, though the textures and 3D model do leave room for improvement. Also, lighting is 👌

2025-11-29

On This Day 29th November 2022.

B-1020, Airbus A330-343, Hainan Airlines, taxiing out to the runway at Manchester Airport, 29th November 2022, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.
Despite hoping the weather would clear, this was one of the few barely usable shots I grabbed, the airport being shrouded in mist for most of the morning.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #L13 #Airbus #A330 #HainanAirlines
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a twin engined je airliner taxiing from right to left.
The plane is largely white, with a red and yellow stripe running from under the forward fuselage, over the wing, then back down, the red expanding to fill the rear fuselage and tail, with an additional red and yellow stripe on the upper rear fuselage.
There are red "Hainan Airlines" titles on the upper forward fuselage, in a Chinese script towards the front, and in English just in front of the wing.
Part of a stylised yellow flower is on the red tail, a design replicated in a smaller form on the upturned red wingtips.
The roof of a grey terminal building fills the foreground, while grey buildings 
In front of large, duck egg blue fuel tanks stretch across the background, under hazy grey skies.

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