China Southern started the 2011 Summerseason at Amsterdam with the introduction of the Airbus A330-200 on its service from and to Guangzhou in mainland China. Previously the route was operated by the Boeing 777-200. China Southern has 10 Airbus A330-200's and 8 Airbus A330-300's. One of the -200's is in Skyteam colours (B-6528), another is in The 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 colours (B-6057). We'll keep a sharp lookout! Above the arrival of the first China Southern Airbus A330 B-6135 to Amsterdam on March 27, 2011.

Airbus A319-133X CJ (Corporate Jet) of ARAVCO arrived at Amsterdam on 24 March 2011 for a night stop. This aircraft was built in 2005 and delivered to ARAVCO on Octbor 25, 2005 and still going strong. The aircraft is registered in the Cayman Islands as VP-CCJ.

Turkish Airlines is sponsoring a few European Football teams and is showing that in the livery on two aircraft. One of them is Boeing 737-800(W) TC-JFV which is painted in special colours with “Official Partner of Manchester United”. The aircraft visited Amsterdam on March 20th 2011. The other aircraft wearing Footbal club colours is TC-JGY (FC Barcelona).

Boeing 737-800(W) SU-MWE of Midwest Airlines from Egypt is seen here arriving from Hurghada just before landing on runway 06 at Amsterdam. The aircraft was originally delivered to FlyGlobespan of the UK in April 2005 on lease from ILFC. In December 2009 the airline went bankrupt and it took another 8 months before the aircraft was leasewd out again to Midwest Airlines, which is a small charter airline with three Boeing 737-800's. The airline is operating a small series of charters in February and March between Hurghada and Amsterdam as MWA6020/6021.