On my recent 4 day / 10+ segment mileage run that took me to Washington DC, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich, Lisbon, Newark and finally home to GRR, I had a great opportunity to visit Zurich’s beautiful Observation Deck atop Terminal B.
I’ll have more on the observation deck in a future post since it merits a better and more detailed looked. For now, I’ll share some of the images I was able to capture during my 2 hour visit to the deck. I had a 4 hour layover so I did not have as much time as I would like but I took what I could get (and I wish I had packed ‘BIGMA’). Safe to say now that I’ve had my first taste, I’ll be back for a 1 or 2 day visit in the spring when another area on the airport is open for spotting as well.
For now enjoy some of what I saw in ‘ZRH’! :
A face off between the 747SP of the former ruler of Qatar and a ‘Jumbolino’
Turkish operator ‘tailwind’
Taken through glass hence the ghosting near the engines, but still a good catch!
This was the ‘Best Of Show’ while I was in ZRH. This 747SP is the private aircraft of the former ruler of Qatar.
A departing Swiss A340-300
Austrian’s A320 gets a push back from her gate
An AVRO RJ100 ‘Jumbolino’ arriving to Terminal A
SWISS’ A330 being prepared for departure
A departing SWISS A330
SWISS’ A321 HB-ION climbing out of ZRH
An A321 pushes back from her gate.
A Swiss A319 making her way to the active runway.
What will become a rare sight, A Lufthansa 737.
KLM’s ERJ190 taxis to the runway.
this Jat 737 actually now belongs to Air Serbia
SWISS’ A320 leaves the gate
NIKI/Air Berlin A320 push back from her gate
this SwissJet AW139 passed very quietly overhead…..almost missed her!
Darwin’s Saab 2000 being prepped for service. DARWIN will become Etihad Regional in March 2014.
Delta’s 767 departing for the USA
‘Speedbird’ A321 arriving from England.
Air Berlin A320 rolling towards runway…..
Air Berlin A320 departing ZRH
