Spotten at SXM ? Now or never !

veldmuis · Post by **veldmuis** » 26 Aug 2003, 20:33

Spotten at SXM ? Now or never !

We all (should) know those amazing final approach pictures taken at SXM, where you can almost touch those wide-bodies while lying on the tropical St Maarten beach. Truly, a spotters’ paradise… (search Airliners.Net if still necessary)

Well, if you have always wanted to go there, but had not enough money, the (perhaps) once-in-a-lifetime window-of-opportunity is … now. See below:

Uit KLM Highlights : “Vaker en voordeliger naar Sint Maarten! Vanaf 14 oktober zet KLM twee extra vluchten per week in naar deze zonnige bestemming. Het actietarief van EUR 393 maakt deze bestemming nog aantrekkelijker. De actie loopt tot en met 11 december a.s, eerste vertrekdatum is 14 oktober.”

Highly recommended !!! (I was there myself in 1994)

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 26 Aug 2003, 20:41

Sounds like a great offer.

veldmuis wrote:...eerste vertrekdatum is 14 oktober.

When is the last "vertrekdatum"

Ciao
Chris
8)

vliegtuigfreak · Post by **vliegtuigfreak** » 26 Aug 2003, 20:43

WOW, i wanna be there for spotting!!

Greetingzz
Sonny

PS, we come from the same city!

Post by **sn26567** » 26 Aug 2003, 21:43

Yes, but 393 EUR just for spotting from a beach?

OST is cheaper...

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 26 Aug 2003, 23:14

sn26567 wrote:OST is cheaper...

Maybe cheaper, but you won't find me watching planes while drinking a cocktail on the beach in OST.

BTW not only the landings are impressive, apparently you have to do special take-offs to avoid mountains, look at that picture

Ciao
Chris
8)

Post by **sn26567** » 27 Aug 2003, 11:08

Avro wrote:Maybe cheaper, but you won't find me watching planes while drinking a cocktail on the beach in OST.

It is from a beach not far from OST that I saw an AF Concorde taking off at low altitude in the mid-80es.

Post by **luchtzak** » 27 Aug 2003, 15:48

I thought that beach was closed for spotting ?

veldmuis · Post by **veldmuis** » 27 Aug 2003, 22:14

Well, the SXM beach is surely not closed (yet?) : even on the latest added pictures of SXM in the Airliners.Net database (e.g. taken in July/August 2003), I still see people standing on Maho Beach...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/408151/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/390825/M/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/380878/M/

But expansion plans are ready, i.e. lagoon landfill for the terminal and apron for sure, and maybe at the same time lengthening of the runway too (nowadays, a 747 at SXM can't be fueled up enough to make it back to Europe ànd still take off... - this is then done at a 'combined' stop, e.g. CUR in the case of KLM). So, will Maho Beach remain intact, or be sacrificed together with some seaside landfill for a longer runway ?...

777 · Post by **777** » 27 Aug 2003, 22:42

This the best picture I have seen up to date at SXM :

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/385938/L/

Andre