After a Easter weekend in Manchester, I was about to go back to Munich. We spent the morning in Runway visitor park as we joined a Concorde tour (I will show some photos at the end of this report). Then we headed back in the city to have a lunch before the flight. My camera or SD card got some problems after that so I didn't take any photos of the terminal until I got a new SD card at the airport.
1. LH2500 MUC to MAN: Here
2. LH2503 MAN to MUC: You are here!
1. Flight report
At 16:30pm, I arrived at the airport. My friend swiftly directed me to the Lufthansa check-in area and printed out the boarding pass and then we said Good-bye. The security check process was very smooth and I can get through quickly without any trouble. I immediately brought a new SD card in an electronic shop and continued my way to the gate. My flight was assigned to gate 28. I sat down and tried to fix my camera but it still didn't work. So I gave up and took the pictures with my cell phone. Boarding started at 17:20pm. I joined the queue as fast as possible as I had a cabin luggage with me. In the morning, I have already checked on flightradar24 that my flight would be operated by another 27 years old A320, D-AIPC, in star alliance livery. However gate 28 was unable to see the aircraft outside so I did not take any pictures before the flight.
Gate view
My seat was exactly the same as my previous flight, 18A. I carefully selected the seat on the left side so as to avoid the direct sunlight during Sunset. The flight as I can see was quite full. I tried again with my camera and somehow it worked again!!! I was so excited and started taking pictures.
Cabin during boarding.
View outside the Window. Finnair ERJ190 OH-LKE was preparing its flight back to Helsinki as AY938
Flight was expected to be 1 hour 30 minutes according to the announcement. Push-back eventually started at 17:52. An SAS B737-800 was just arrived from Stockholm as SK2549.
Taxi to Runway. In the background there was a Lufthansa A320neo, D-AINA operating the Frankfurt route.
Ryanair FR1557 to Dublin.
Lining up on runway
D-AIPC Take-off at 18:04pm from RWY05L.
Few minutes after take-off
I got my salmon sandwich 15 minutes after take-off.
Leaving the United Kingdom
Entering Belgium.
It took 25 minutes more for me to get my apple juice.
About one hour after take-off, my neighbor went to the lavatory and I also took the chance to stretch my legs. The cabin view while I went to lavatory.
Toilet tells the age of the aircraft.
At 19:15pm there was an announcement informing the flight remained 30 minutes.
Enjoying the beautiful scenery of sunset~
Descending into Munich.
We landed on RWY26R at 20:38pm. At parking position, we can observe at the end of the terminal, Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHK carrying FC Bayern München Sticker, will operate the flight LH726 to Shanghai Pudong. Total flight time for my flight was 1 hour 38 minutes.
Last view of the aircraft. It will then operate the last flight of the day to London Heathrow as LH2484
2. Runway Visitor Park (Concorde Tour)
The hanger where the Concorde is stored. The right side is the sovenior store which you can find some model planes, books and aviation stuff.
The tour began with a short video in a briefing room about the background of the Concorde. After that we proceeded to the hanger, after some explanations, we were allowed to walk around and take photos.
G-BOAC confirmed.
Ready to visit the cabin.
Entering the cabin of Concorde.
Cabin view 1
Cabin view 2
Small window
The Lavatory
The flight deck. We were split in several group and took turns to visit the flight deck.
After the tour, everyone received a certificate as a souvenir.
3. Plane spotting
Thomas Cook A321 departing to Tenerife as MT1966
SAS B737-800 departing to Oslo as SK4608
The plane spotting area
Cathay Pacific Airways B777-300ER departing to Hong Kong as CX358
Virgin Atlantic B747-400 departing to Orlando as VS73
Austrian Airlines ERJ-190 in Star Alliance livery was departing to Vienna as OS464
Thanks for reading!!!
