BOE279 has just departed Everett on its first flight of 2 hours to Moses Lake and half an hour back to Everett.

Be interesting to see what name they give ZNK

A Twitter photo of ZNK line up on the runway from the ever reliable Jennifer Schuld:

https://twitter.com/JenSchuld

I can't read the name from the photo.

Shot from other direction with name tapped over.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELD2iZCU8AA8KZp.jpg:large

Compliments of Jennifer Schuld twitter page:

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From QF Source


QANTAS B787-9 VH-ZNC Operates Sydney – Auckland and San Francisco Dreamliner Inaugurals.

Dec 4, 2019

QANTAS switched operation of the QF141/QF144 Sydney – Auckland rotation from Boeing 737-800 to Boeing 787-9 operation and the QF73/QF74 Sydney – San Francisco rotation from Boeing 747-400ER to Boeing 787-9 operation today with QANTAS Boeing 787-9 VH-ZNC operating the inaugural Dreamliner services on both routes.

Spot on James, VH-ZNF swapped with VH-ZNG in SFO yesterday.

Had another look at this James, MEL-SFO is 4 days a week - on 1,4,5,7.
The three BNE-SFO flights are proposed to be 1,3,5 - so only adding one new day to the SYD-SFO swap possibilities, plus providing 2 swap days between MEL & BNE.

The schedulers are ringing the changes in SFO at the moment with swaps on the last three available days.

Peter, the MEL-SFO-MEL flights will change operating days to Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat from the second week in February, 2020 when the BNE-SFO-BNE flights commence operating on Tue, Thu, Sun. This will then give QANTAS the ability to swap 787-9s in SFO on a daily basis.

So that's the same schedule as the BNE-ORD-BNE flights commencing 21 April ?