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Last Saturday I went to Sydney for the day to fly on QF8 again and also do some spotting in Sydney and go into the city ![]() ![]() Brisbane Airport: An early wakeup call is required for QF8. I got up at 0400 and left at 0430 to get to the airport at 0500, one and a half hours before the flight is due to leave. Josh was already there. I had already checked in online to secure my seat. I still needed to go to the check in counter to get a new boarding pass with a domestic sticker on it. About 2 weeks after booking I decided I would upgrade to Premium Economy seeing as I now had enough points for an upgrade, Josh upgraded to business ![]() After getting my new boarding pass we went through customs and security screening. We went to Gate 79 where QF8 would board from. I already knew that we would be getting VH-OEJ to Sydney ![]() ![]() OEJ at the gate after the long flight from Dallas ![]() After getting photos of OEJ at the gate I went on balus on my phone to see if anything interesting was on its way in. And to my surprise UA839 LAX-SYD, QF12 LAX-SYD and JL771 NRT-SYD were heading to BNE. I looked it up and saw that Sydney was fogged in for the 2nd day in a row, the previous day wasn’t so bad, Brisbane received no diversions. I watched the three diversions arrive. N171UA operating UA839 from LAX-SYD at Gate 80 ![]() Two more! ![]() JA707J in Oneworld livery operating JL771 from NRT-SYD ![]() VH-OQC operating QF12 from LAX-SYD, good to see an A380 in BNE ![]() ![]() After watching the three diversions arrive I went back on to balus to see another 5 diversions heading to BNE! SQ221, CA173, BA15, QF6 and QF568. An announcement was then made that due to fog in Sydney our flight to Sydney was delayed. So I went down to the northern end of the terminal to see the next 5 diversions arrive. A380 Number 2 for the day! 9V-SKI operating SQ221 from SIN-SYD ![]() After watching SQ221 arrive it was announced that we would be boarding after a short delay, so we made our way to Gate 79 to board OEJ! Just before boarding ![]() The front end of N171UA ![]()
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