Arriving for maintenance by Lufthansa Technik.

"Parakeet" on short final for Rwy 14 at Plaisance on a winter afternoon. The old livery was hard to beat.

Lining up on runway 14 of it's home base for another flight to Bangkok, this 1997 built airframe served with Air Mauritius all it's life. Stored in October 2020 due to the Corona pandemic, then flown to Twenthe in July 2021 and finally broken up there during 2022. Even though designed for longhaul flights, Air Mauritius regulary used it's A340's to serve regional destinations like the neighboring islands of Madagascar and La Reunion as well.

The last ever landing of this almost-24-year-old Airbus and a nice one too, neatly at the aiming point after a visual circuit. MAU05 took 11 hours and 27 minutes to fly here directly from Mauritius. In the preceding days, the Bus carried out a few short test flights from the island after apparent storage. It will be dismantled at Twente.

"Parakeet" on short final for Rwy 14 at Plaisance on a cloudy summer morning.

In the old paint scheme of Air Mauritius

Unfortunately, nowadays Airbus A340s are not a common sight anymore . So get them while you can!