Dresden Pictures

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Sorry they are so late, they were taken on the 4th of August but I've been waiting for my new PC to come before up loading them.

I'm afraid there are only five photos and they aren't very vaired, but I didn't really get many opportunities to take photos.

Anyway, here they are:

http://www.ematchsims.co.uk/d1.JPG

Inside the terminal at Dresden. I know it's not stictly aviation, but the terminal was opened in 2001. It's very pleasant to travel through.

http://www.ematchsims.co.uk/D2.JPG

This is the aircraft I travelled on from Dresden to Munich, D-ACPR.

http://www.ematchsims.co.uk/D3.JPG

One for wysiwyg. This aircraft was supposed to leave 20 minutes before my flight but a tug didn't turn up and it was still on the tarmac when we departed.

http://www.ematchsims.co.uk/D4.JPG

Just another one of D-ACPR, sorry for the poor quality, it was taken from the bus.

http://www.ematchsims.co.uk/D5.JPG

This was the aircraft for the second leg of my journey from Munich to Heathrow.

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Nice pictures Martin, thanks for posting them up for us.:)

The terminal looks great... very smart and modern looking, and the pic of the TCX A320, is stunning!

Cheers.

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It looks like quite a quiet airport Martin, was that the case ?

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It's usually much busier than that. The pictures were taken in mid afternoon when the airport is quiet. It gets busier at about 1800 and the morning is usually very busy.

Scheduled traffic consists of Lufthansa flights to Munich, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart . Germanwings also fly to Cologne/Bonn. Air Berlin have a few scheduled flights as well.

The majority of the traffic is holiday charters. Dresden is really the equivalent of East Midlands in terms of traffic movement numbers.

There is also a major facility for converting A300s and A310 to freighters.

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A nice little set of photos Martin. Was'nt Dresden in the old East Germany? I was expecting some old dilapidated terminal but it looks nice and modern.

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Yeah it was in the old East Germany. Also the main target for Bomber Harris in the second world war. The British and American's completely flattened the place while it was full of refugees trying to escape Soviet Russia. It was a communist city until 1989 but is now a booming city of culture which could quite easily be the new Prague.

Until 2001 the terminal was little more than a hut, but this new terminal was opened to replace it. It has an underground railway station for an Airport express service like that at Heathrow for the Heathrow Express and is altogether a very modern setup.

The terminal is a converted hanger. Suprisingly the old terminal is still in use. Germanwings operate out of it during the day and in the evenings it is transformed into a night club!

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An impressive collection of photos, martin_EGTK. Really like the Lufthansa A319/A320/A321 :confused: Can't tell which it is from that angle.. lol

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at that length, it has to be a 321...

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I love the LH CRJ 700 is it?

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yup, Lufthansa Cityline CRJ700.

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Yep the aibus is an A321, didn't get a registration I'm afriad and the CRJ is indeed a 700, very comfortable aircraft. I also flew on a Eurowing CRJ200 from Munich to Dresden and an A320 with Lufthansa from LHR to MUC.