Aerial views of the Alps mountains, again 2012-02-29

In addition to the aerial views of the Alps mountains from the flight from Zürich to Sion, I sorted and processed some older views of the Alps from the plane.

Departures or landings in Milan have good chances to catch nice views:

DL161, 2012-02-20

view from the plane of Alps mountains and Monte Rosa, with Boeing 767-400ER wing with raked wingtips

view of the Alps from South with the Monte Rosa under the wing pylon
View of the Alps from South shortly after departure from Milan Malpensa aboard DL161 bound for JFK. In the Boeing 767 family, the raked wingtips are only found on the 767-400ER which performed this flight. The Monte Rosa massif is under the outer wing pylon.

valley in the Alps

aerial view of the Alps mountains, snow covered summits with clouds

clouds around the summits

Alps

Mont Blanc
Aerial view of the Mont Blanc, with 4810 m the highest mountain of the Alps, and - depending of the definition - of Europe.

AZ605, 2012-02-29

view from an airplane of the dawn with an A330 wing

dawn over France

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published on 2018-03-15

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ZRH-SIR-ZRH: day trip to Valais with views of the snow-covered Alps 2017-02-11

In August 2016, Swiss announced that the route Sion (SIR) – London (first planned LCY, later switched to LHR) would be operated on the four Saturdays in February 2017 by Helvetic Airways Embraer 190 to connect the winter sports regions around Sion directly to England. The positioning flights between Zürich and Sion were also bookable. SIR is a quite small airport with only 24.000 passengers annually (2014) and hard to reach by sheduled flights, even harder that convenient as a day trip. I didn't have to think for a long time and quickly booked STR-ZRH-SIR-ZRH-STR looking forward to enjoying freat views of the Alps mountains in winter – and I did not get disappointed.

ZRH – SIR (outbound)

Monitor mit Anzeige LX2840 ZRH - SIR Helvetic Airways

LX2840 operated by Helvetic Airways Embraer 190 HB-JVO
9:16 (STD 9:05) – 9:52 (STA 9:50) – flight time 36 min

Departure on RWY 28, heading westwards until Aarau, then turning left heading to the Thunersee. After 9 min the cruising altitude of 19.000 ft was reached. A short left-/right turn with views of the Thunersee. Left turn over Eiger/Mönch mountains, briefly heading towards northeast, followed by a approx. 180° right turn over Grimselpass/Obergoms to align with the Rhone valley. Descending along the Rhone valley between the summits to land on SIR RWY 25.