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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 23/12/2025

Today, the newest Boeing 787-9 for Lufthansa arrived in Frankfurt from Everett. D-ABPU is the first of six aircraft to wear the - very blue - "100 years" special livery. More photos and video: www.aerotelegraph.com/airlines/luf...

Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 in a very blue special livery taxiing by.

Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 in a very blue special livery rolling into its parking position.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 30/08/2025

Adopted a tuxedo kitten as our newest family member. Meet Jules :)

Black and white tuxedo kitten being held by a person

Black and white tuxedo kitten looking to the side, showing his antennas

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 14/07/2025

Ironically, the stamps from this delivery were bent because they could move around freely inside that oversized box. Normally they deliver them using a thick envelope and they are totally fine.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 14/07/2025

I've ordered 10 stamps from the German postal service Deutsche Post. They sent them in a parcel the size of a cereal box. Do they know paper can be sent by a thing called mail?

A sheet of Superman-themed stamps inside an otherwise empty parcel.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 16/06/2025

Another European flag-carrier becoming an A220 customer.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 25/03/2025

Different registration, but here are some slightly better photos of the NATO E-3A Sentry AWACS plane.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 25/03/2025

If only it wasn't dark, cloudy and raining outside right now... Anyway, enjoy the world's worst photo of an E-3A Sentry. #avgeek

Flightradar24 Screenshot of a NATO Boeing E-3A Sentry flying over Neuss, Germany.

Absolutely terrible photo of the aircraft where you can barely recognize the lights.

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Jon Ostrower @jonostrower.com · 25/03/2025

I, a journalist, am on Signal, too. jonostrower.18 should you want to add me to any awesome and secret aviation and aerospace group chats where highly newsworthy information is being discussed.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 21/03/2025

London-Heathrow will be closed for ALL of Friday due to a “significant power outage” caused by a fire in an electrical substation. There are currently 120 aircraft in the air that will be diverting to alternate airports or returning to their origins. www.flightradar24.com/airport/lhr

120 flights bound for Heathrow Airport that are going to need to go somewhere else.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 09/03/2025

German union Verdi has called for an immediate, previously unannounced strike of ground handling staff at Hamburg Airport. The airport remains closed today (Sunday, March 9). This is in addition to the nationwide airport strike on Monday, March 10.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 07/03/2025

Airport employees in Germany (including ground handling) will go on a 24-hour strike Monday, March 10th, affecting operations at 11 airports: - Frankfurt - Munich - Berlin - Düsseldorf - Hamburg - Cologne/Bonn - Stuttgart - Hannover - Leipzig/Halle - Dortmund - Bremen

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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Thank you @jakobwert.com for the postcards! 🙏

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2025

Elon Musk salutes (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty)

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 09/01/2025

Question: Are there any aviation postcard collectors among my followers? #avgeek

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Isaac Alexander @jetcitystar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So instead of seeing a surge of people come to BlueSky from the dead bird, we could see them come from FB, IG and Threads now?

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 03/01/2025

Oooh a Beluga XL at my local airport (diversion from Hamburg). #avgeek

Flightradar24 screenshot showing an Airbus Transport International Beluga XL flight from Düsseldorf to Hamburg on the ground at DUS.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 03/01/2025

This was on December 26th

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 31/12/2024

Deutsche Post: Raises postage on international postcards from 0.95€ to 1.25€. Also Deutsche Post: Doesn't make any stamps for 1.25€. This is what postage on my cards to the US looks like now, taking up a third of the entire postcard. 🤦‍♂️

Multiple stamps on the back of a postcard: 1x 100ct, 2x 10ct, 1x 5ct plus a Priority/Airmail sticker.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 30/12/2024

A crew member of Swiss has passed away in hospital following an incident on December 23rd, where smoke filled the cabin of an Airbus A220.

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Jon Ostrower @jonostrower.com · 29/12/2024

Available @flightradar24.com data for the Jeju Air flight shows an approach from south to north. The crash happened when the airplane was landing north to south. The lighting barrier is at the south end of Muan International.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 27/12/2024

We have updated our post on #J28243 with a new analysis of non-positional data. Using heading and IAS data from between 05:13 and 06:07 UTC combined with the position update from 06:07, we calculated a possible flight path via reverse dead reckoning. www.flightradar24.com/blog/azerbai...

Annotated flight path of J28243 as well as an inferred flight path between 05:13 UTC and 06:07 UTC based on heading and IAS data.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 26/12/2024

We have updated our post on #J28243 to include local pressure (1025 hPa) altitude corrections for the ADS-B data. ADS-B data is only reported in Standard pressure (1013.25 hPa). www.flightradar24.com/blog/azerbai...

A 3D visualization of the flight path of J28243 from 06:08-06:28 UTC. The altitude has been corrected for local pressure.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 26/12/2024

#BreakingNews: 🚨Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · 17/12/2024

OAG is out with its annual Top 10 flights infographics. HKG-TPE takes the crown for international, up 48% YoY and displacing KUL-SIN. CJU-GMP retains its stranglehold as the top domestic route, more than doubling the number of seats on #10. www.oag.com/busiest-rout... #AvGeek

infographic showing flight routes around the world and the number of seats operated in 2024

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 13/12/2024

✈️ The EU prevents unsafe airlines from flying anywhere in Europe, ensuring the highest level of air safety for EU travellers. Today, we updated our EU Air Safety List, which includes 129 airlines banned for not meeting international safety standards ↓

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 13/12/2024

Remind me to go to RIAT next time lol

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12/12/2024

Exclusive: President-elect Donald Trump didn’t get to fly on a new Air Force One during his first term. He likely won’t get to fly on a new presidential plane in his second term either.

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Exclusive | Boeing Delays Mean Trump Won’t Fly on a New Air Force One

The long-delayed upgrade of the aircraft designed to be a flying White House has been one of Trump’s pet projects.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Bluesky just hit 25 million users

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 12/12/2024

#ThrowbackThursday: An Iberia Airbus A319 in the old livery. #avgeek

Front view of an Iberia Airbus A319 being pushed back from its gate position. Photo directed towards airport runway, with a steep upwards slope visible right behind it. Several houses on top of the slope.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 04/12/2024

"'We are used to the Boeing 737 MAX. This is luxury,' a crew member confided to RGN onboard the A321LR."

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 04/12/2024

Easyjet joins the Sunflower Lanyard, showing support for passengers with hidden disabilities and becoming the latest major European airline to do so. Meanwhile at Lufthansa Group:

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a desert landscape with a blue sky and a bunch of plants

Alt: a desert landscape with a blue sky and tumbleweeds

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 03/12/2024

Here's one for aviation news:

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 03/12/2024

Last week I posted for #TornadoTuesday, so how about a #TankerTuesday this time? #avgeek

Boeing KC-46 tanker slowing down on the runway shortly after landing. Photo taken from a taxiway parallel to the runway.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 03/12/2024

While United Airlines and SAS will start serving Nuuk's newly expanded airport in 2025, both Lufthansa Group and Condor are not interested in doing so for the time being.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 01/12/2024

X intentionally throttles links and everything it doesn't like, while boosting engagement-bait, Elon-posts and spam. Bluesky is much more open and transparent, and an overall better place to share (and engage with) news articles.

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Jakob Wert @jakobwert.com · 01/12/2024

My aviation mind as soon as the calendar displays December:

Out of the window view of an Air Baltic Airbus A220 wing getting de-iced in winter weather

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I talked to journalists and writers who have found a larger and more engaged audience for their work on Bluesky, without having to see “AI bots and Nazis” at the top of their replies. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'

Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

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