Cameras at the ready

AEROPLANE spotters had a pleasant surprise at the weekend when Lufthansa landed its spectacular Boeing 747 Jumbo at Mallorca airport.

The airline activated the huge carrier in response to the high demand of German travellers looking to fly to the island for Easter.

It landed at Son Sant Joan at 5.30pm on Sunday from Munich with 400 passengers on board, during an extremely busy weekend for the airport in which nearly 1,700 flights took off and landed at the site ­ an average of 23 flights every hour.

The Boeing 747 Jumbo is a historic aircraft of great interest for aviation enthusiasts, as it was the largest passenger plane in the world until the arrival of the Airbus A380 in 2005.

Numerous spotters gathered at a vantage point near Son Ferriol neighbourhood to photograph the arrival of the plane on a day that also held another highlight ­ the landing of an Airbus A ­ 340 from Swiss airline at 1pm.

Lufthansa previously recovered the Boeing 747 at Easter and from mid ­ July to midAugust last year to cater for a surge in German travellers, after the plane had been taken out of circulation during the two years of Covid travel restrictions.