Brisbane airport stuff
 

I thought i would give everyone a update of airlines and news.

BNE is extremely busy currently with aircraft movements reaching 700 a day on some weekdays.A record of 724 earlier this year.

Fifo airlines and cargo have grown and so far this year we have gained Vincent Aviation,Fiji Airways and Safair.Soon Philippines (A320) and Garuda (738) and Skyforce (146) will join them .There are other airline possibilities but will not mention them at this stage.

Alliance now have F100'S,F70'S and a F50 based here
GAM AIR have 3 DO 228'S doing 6 flights a day weekdays
Corporate AIR have 2 Saab 340's 1 metro and up to 4 C441's based here and they are busy.
JetGo have a 135 and very soon a 145
Pelair have a pax Saab VH-EKD
REX have a Saab ZRC based here.
Vincent have their 146 ZK-ECO doing fifo to Roma
Airlink have their 1900 as well as PA-31's
GWA have 2 B200'S as well as 4 PA-31'S
Skytrans have up to 5 Dash 8's both 100's and 300's based here.

Aviation Australia still have their 727-100 outside and their F28
inside the hangar.
AMSA have a DO 328 based here part of the year.
Brindabella operate both metro and J41
Qantaslink have 3 717's based here doing plenty of flights a day and Virgin now have 19 ATR72 flights a day more than any other city.

Plenty of aircraft variety up here.

RFDS have 5-6 aircraft based here as well as visits by Careflight lears and NSW ambulance B350 throughout the week.

Mineralogy 2 MD-82's are still outside and the Hi Fly 343 is based here when not flying.US AIR F100 is also outside.

Army NH-90'S fly most days as well.

Lynden Cargo Hercs are regulars along with the USN as well as KC10'S of USAF.

Air Niugini operate 73G,73H and 763 Through here as well.

Airwork have 733 ZK-SLA based here.

EVA Air still operate 2-3 a week with 332's and Solomons 4 a week with the 320's.Etihad are daily 332's.

This is just some of what can be seen up here.I hope you enjoyed.

Cheers.

That's a really great overview, thanks Lloyd! Sure is a busy place and the variety I don't think is matched anywhere on this side of the country.

I've noticed the D228s on flightaware a couple of times... who is GAM AIR and what's their flying all about? From memory they've been playing somewhere like Kingaroy?

Cheers, Rowan

Thanks Rowan,

GAM AIR is General Aviation Maintenance of Essendon and they fly to Chinchilla which is west of BNE in the Surat basin and this is the heart of all the LNG industry .Not as far west as Roma but they are all involved with LNG.

cHEERS.

Also the current 4x weekly BNE-HKG will gradually move to daily by June.

There is talk that Vietnam may make BNE their 3rd Aussie port. Would be good to see.

It increased to 5x weekly last week and will increase to daily from June 24.

Also we have China Southern increasing from 4x weekly to 5x weekly next month and then to daily from October 27.

Malaysian will increase from 5x weekly to daily from next month.

Also Virgin begin using the A332 on the BNE-PER route tomorrow, twice a day weekdays only and daily Sundays.

Lets not mention the EK A380s from October, to finally take advantage of one of the few lounge to aircraft facilities not in DXB.

Thanks a lot Lloyd! The memory isn't its usual self today, all I could think was it was a (relatively) small-ish town. Are there any photos around of the D228s?

I will check my flickr photos later on Rowan and post a attachment.

Today we had Atlas N492MC taking the V8 super cars to the US.

Also A32-348 and A32-351 were in.

Tomorrow night ATR72 ZK-MVC is due thru Brissie on delivery for Air NZ.

GAM AIR pic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79487691@N07/8736707893/

G'day Lloyd,
Not quite correct. While it may seem like it some days, there's still only 2 based there.

Cheers

Mick

Thanks Mick for that.

Yesterday according to ADSB we had FDT,FDI,FDM,FDW,FDR so yes it just seems like it some days.Thanks for clarifying.

Cheers

No worries.

It can be quite busy down there some days, with aircraft coming from Charleville, Brisy, Bundy, Rocky, Townsville, all in the one day! Not unusual for aircraft to do several trips in the day as well.

Mick

Today we had RNZAF 757 NZ7571 in .

Photo below plus a few other movements.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7948769...in/photostream


Cheers.

How has BNE gained Fiji Airways its just Air Pacific rebranded;)

Air NZ ATR 72 ZK-MVC eta BNE 1655 as SXI 1322 from KOE on delivery to CHC.

October 2 is the first EKA380 service, and operating across the tasman ex BNE as well.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalk...-from-october/

Haha 4 daily,i take it this Sandilands guy lives in BNE :p

So how how many A380s services operate per day in Australia now? Is this correct?

1x BNE (1x EK)
5x MEL (2x QF, 2x SQ, 1x EK)

Not sure about SYD, I am sure someone will post.

Pretty sure there's at least 7, soon to increase with other carriers using them (Thai and China Southern, possibly Malaysian?).

SYD: Up to 3 daily for QF (LAX, DXB/LHR and 4 weekly HKG), 2 daily (last I knew) for SQ, 2 daily EK (from 1 June) and the CZ in October. So will be up to 8 by the end of the year.

For Sydney

EK412/413 DXB-SYD-AKL-SYD-DXB
EK414/415 DXB-SYD-DXB (From June 1)
QF11/12 SYD-LAX-SYD
QF1/2 SYD-DXB-LHR-DXB-SYD
QF127/128 SYD-HKG-SYD - four flights a week
SQ221/232 SIN-SYD-SIN
SQ231/222 SIN-SYD-SIN
CZ325/326 CAN-SYD-CAN (From October 27)

Also Thai planned on using the A380 on TG475/476 from September, but nothing has been confirmed.

Iclelandair 757-200 TF-FIW will be wet leased and operating 3 POM-BNE services a week from 20 May for PX .The remainder of 8 flights a week by PX will be 767's and 737's.

It appears as though a 763 has gone into maintenance.I have checked all of June and the 757 is operating all of that month as well.:)

BNE had Skytraders A319 in yesterday .This is it's tenth visit this year.VH-VHD has been in 3 times and VH-VCJ 7 times so far.

QF 737 VH-XZF first visit last night.

TF-FIW is scheduled to do POM-BNE today and overnight.

Cheers.

http://ybbn.blogspot.com.au/

The airport immigration detention centre is keeping it busy!

New Virgin 737 VH-YFN arrived on delivery yesterday at BNE.

TF-FIW is scheduled to fly to BNE as PX25 this arvo on her first visit. There was a last minute change on the Saturday flight and we ended up getting P2-PXC B738.

Today we had our first daytime visit of Fiji Airways A332 DQ-FJT thanks to an 11 hour delay of last nights flight. Arrived at 1030, and is due out at 1145.

Photo below of Fiji Airways

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7948769...in/photostream

Also China Southern Skyteam livery

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7948769...in/photostream

VH-RAM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7948769...in/photostream

VP-CKG G550 due tonight from Seletar

ZK-JTQ Alliance 737-400 operated PER-MEL-BNE-DRW today .

GTI5424 Atlas 744F N415MC due tonight from HNL with V8 super cars on board.

Falcon 7X SE-DJC landed earlier today.

BNE has a real beauty tonight

National Airlines 744F N919CA BKK-BNE-AKL.

ENB 383 is the flight number.Already airborne out of BKK.Flightaware has the details.

ETA 0230 out 0430 hrs.

Unfortunately the hours are not good .

National 744F left at 0520 to AKL.

Tonight VT-AML a new 2013 delivered EMB 135 due from SIN.

MEL,s turn tonight to get it.

The Indian ERJ 135 pic below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79487691@N07/8808623809/

DQ-FJG came in last night in the new livery.This is the first Air Pacific 73H painted in the Fiji livery.

About to get NXK to Gladstone, the ground crew that checked me in said she had never seen a 125 seat one, is this the first time one has opt from Brissy?

Great topic Lloyd.


Philippine Airlines and Garuda Indonesia will be much welcomed.

Anyone know what happened with QF1744 tonight, going off flightaware it was an air return, looks like it was VH-NXN which was out of service much of last week.

Yes Shayne thanks.PR start this Sunday with A320's .

Today with all the diversions was also good and busy.Nice to get a BA 77W so soon after commencement of SYD services.


Have a look at the blog of a few of today's stuff

Courtesy of Simon.

http://ybbn.blogspot.com.au/