Airplanes

[trinacriabob]

Cleaning up bookmarks as some are no longer valid ... 10+ years of accumulating and tentatively archiving them ...

Thought I'd share this beautiful photo I found in my bookmarks of an Iberia 747, which they no longer operate, taking flight.  I'm almost sure it's a home base departure from Madrid, but don't know where it's headed ... could be New York, Miami, Buenos Aires, etc.

[trinacriabob]

There isn't much in the way of mixed fleets when it comes to airlines.  I'm referring to Boeing and Airbus.  Some do it out of loyalty (Alaska goes with Boeing, being in Seattle).  Some do it out of efficiency.

In Europe, the bigger airlines buy from both manufacturers (British, Lufthansa, Air France, KLM, Turkish ...) as they have both the Airbus 350 and the Boeing 787 in their fleets.  Lufthansa amazingly uses both superjumbos - the Airbus 380 and the Boeing 747-8.

Slightly smaller but still international airlines are now going with one vendor.  In Europe, this would now be TAP Portugal, Finnair, and ITA (the successor to Alitalia).  They have all Airbus fleets.