Best Place to go spotting in Europe

FedEx · Post by **FedEx** » 16 Oct 2005, 22:25

Hi all,

I'm new here and was wondering what you all think is the number 1 place in europe to go spotting? i've only ever been to UK airports and was thinking of venturing in to europe. maybe you could list your top 5 favorite airports for spotting.

Thanks......

FedEx

P.s
My fav's in the UK
1) Heathrow
2) Manchester
3) Stansted
4) Gatwick
5) Luton

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 16 Oct 2005, 22:55

My favourite airports (UK and Europe):

Brussels (goes without saying!)
Manchester
Birmingham
London City
Heathrow, but I haven't been since 1999.

My least favourite airport is CDG - vile terminals (terminal 2 is gross), no proper viewing from inside terminal. I just do not like anything about that airport I'm afraid.

I would like to visit Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Innsbruck (to see that mountain approach!) Madrid to see the IB CRJs.

Post by **luchtzak** » 16 Oct 2005, 23:30

This is my list based on the airports I have visited:

Madrid Barajas => Loads of heavies,
Paris CDG => Much traffic,
London Heathrow => Simply stunning!
Moscow Domododevo + St. Petersburg => Love those Russian planes!

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 16 Oct 2005, 23:36

Shiphol, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf are top

(together with Heathrow and CDG)
Innsbruck is very nice too, but there are so many good spottingplaces around Europe (Madrid, Ibiza and Zurich among others have there own reasons to be "special"), that it's not easy to choose a "best one" i think

in fact it depends on what you are used to see, and what you would like to see for a change : the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

FedEx · Post by **FedEx** » 18 Oct 2005, 17:57

Thanks, i'm gonna try and visit some of these airports in the new year.

Thanks again for your recommendations.

FedEx.

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 18 Oct 2005, 18:30

Dusseldorf and schiphol!

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 18 Oct 2005, 18:38

My top 5 for the moment:

Frankfurt
Paris CDG
Zürich
Amsterdam
Munich

Chris

meerkat · Post by **meerkat** » 18 Oct 2005, 20:20

My 2 best for overall "seeability" would be Frankfurt and Dusseldorf as they both have 2 good areas to view from, each with cover should the weather be inclement.

Amsterdam is a good first "awayday" as it is cheap and easy to get to from UK but suffers in that you can't see everything that moves from the terrace - check out the terminal/runway plan.

CDG is busy and has variety but the best places to view are in the open and exposed.

Have fun wherever you get to - there are lots of numbers to be made for a first time visitor, even at Brussels!

Meerkat

YYZ727 · Post by **YYZ727** » 20 Oct 2005, 09:07

1/ Frankfurt
2/ Heathrow
3/ Amsterdam
4/ Gatwick
5/ Madrid

bigjulie · Post by **bigjulie** » 22 Oct 2005, 22:18

Mine would have to be :
FRA
MUC
OSL

ehamspotter · Post by **ehamspotter** » 26 Oct 2005, 14:34

Hello;

My top five:

Heathrow

Frankfurt

Manchester

Charles de Gaulle

Schiphol

Jeroen

hroelz · Post by **hroelz** » 30 Oct 2005, 23:19

I can only talk about airports I have visited so far, unfortunately AMS, LHR or CDG are not amongst them:
No ranking here:

- Frankfurt: Good traffic, average spotting opporunities
- Zürich: Traffic used to be better some time, but the facilities are a spotter's dream!
- Oostende: Not quantity counts, but quality

- Salzburg: The winter charter weekends are legendary...
- Nürnberg: Well, my home airport 8)

Regards,
Hermann

burner737 · Post by **burner737** » 12 Dec 2005, 14:28

for me the best airports to go out and spot are
1. DUS
2. my small home airport called ANR
3. AMS
4. DUB
5. CGN the only thing you have to take with ya are some stairs :d

Antonov22 · Post by **Antonov22** » 13 Dec 2005, 12:39

Here is my list:
1) Ams (Home Airport)
2) Dus
3) Fra
4) Ein
5) Bru

rgds,
Peter