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Turbulence and Triumph: Lessons learned about flying (and about life)

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The wind was fierce, and the narrow runway offered little room for error. I communicated my intentions and began my descent. When the wheels finally made contact with the tarmac, I felt a profound sense of relief mixed with frustration. The landing was rough.

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Flying Sky Express Airbus A320NEO From Athens to Thessaloniki!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Currently the airport has 2 terminals, the main and the satallite terminal and uses 2 runways, runway 03L/21R and 03R/21R. The view of the tarmac. Rolling down the runway in this beautiful weather. Not long after, we started our descent. There was a bit of light turbulence during our descent.

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Flying on New Year's Day With A New Airline from Frankfurt to Athens!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

What I like about the interior of the terminals at this airport is they offer good view of the tarmac which allow great opportunity to take good photos of the aircraft. Window shot photos After pushed back, we took about 15 minutes to reach the runway. The view is excellent but it was quite bumpy during our descent.

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Unexpected Flight Change: From Delta Airlines 767-400ER To Virgin Atlantic's A330-900 NEO From Boston To London Heathrow

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Plane spotting and photography are possible at the international airside as the windows offer unobstructed clear view of the tarmac and you get great views like these photos below. Rolling down the runway in this gloomy weather. At this point we have entered the UK airspace and started our descent. The crew's working area.

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Trying Out Air India's Airbus A350-900 Business Class from Bombai to New Delhi!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

The airport mayhave 2 runways (runway 14/32 and runway 09/27) but only one runway is in operation (09/27) and if this runway is in maintenance, the other runway will be in used. Once we reached runway 27, we departed just minutes after our schedule departure time. Don't you hate it when that happens?