Two clips (similar to these ones) had a huge impact on my mood during the last year. When I saw these parked & stored aircrafts all around the world it was just making me cry. Aircrafts are made to fly.
I thought I was the only one with such (silly? weird? misguidedly empathetic?) feelings about aircrafts - that in the end are nothing more than technical objects.
Over the past year, I flew 3 times - so much less than in non-pandemic times. But seeing the airport aprons and taxiway areas turned into giant aircraft parking lots was so sad and despressing. Especially if they parked 2 aircrafts nose to nose looking helplessly at each other - it really was like watching unhappy birds with clipped wings...
Probably overtly sentimental, but those were just my spontaneous feelings.
On a more positive note, I would like to pick up the issue of great small Greek airports for spectacular take offs or landings. Given the country's topography with many islands over a not overtly large area there are quite a few miniscule, funky airports at incredibly scenic locations. Also - domestic flights in Greece are highly advisable for those in search of breathtaking views from above, as the small aircrafts fly at relatively low altitude and the Aegean skies are known to be clear.
Apart from the already mentioned airports of Corfu/Kerkyra (CFU) and Skiathos (JSI), Aktio/Preveza (PVK) is worthwhile as it is located on the peninsula tip of the narrow straight separating the Ambracian Gulf from the Ionian Sea. The 2 only national airports on the central Cycladic islands of Paros (PAS) and Syros (JSY) also offer spectacular panoramic views over the islands.
Then there are funny ones like Patras/Araxos (GPA) which the Greek Air Force rents out for charterflights in the summer, and where you don't exactly land in a pumpkin patch ..... but in a watermelon field.
Even Eleftherios Venizelos Airport Athens (ATH) isn't bad for landing because one mostly flies a long curve south over the city - with view of the Acropolis - out over the Saronic Gulf to then turn back North to land east of Athens on the coast across from Euboea.