QANTAS Fleet and Operations

[Greg Hyde]

Originally Posted by MarkR

First A220 is being built https://twitter.com/Qantas/status/16...187717/photo/1

Msn55236

I think that the serial is 55253

55236 is destined to go to Bulgaria Air

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

I think that the serial is 55253

55236 is destined to go to Bulgaria Air

MSN is different to aircraft/line number, for clarification MSN 55236 is Ac # 55253, that’s of course assuming Qantas has specifically picked that aircraft vs taking a random photo and saying it’s for Qantas.

[MarkR]

Look like the got the right one

[Greg Hyde]

VH-NXR has departed Canberra for Alice & Darwin and eventually VCV as SXI2350

[Michael Mak]

Having been in maintenance in BNE since May 2, VH-QPH did a 3 hours 17 minutes BNE BNE test flight on July 29th and ferried BNE-SYD as QF6016 on the same day, arriving at 1943.

[Tristan S]

Originally Posted by Michael Mak

Having been in maintenance in BNE since May 2, VH-QPH did a 3 hours 17 minutes BNE BNE test flight on July 29th and ferried BNE-SYD as QF6016 on the same day, arriving at 1943.

Now taxiing for departure as QF25 to HND

[Brenden S]

Has anyone noted the last few register updates that Qantas seem to be buying a fair few aircraft off lease? Also of note QF looks like it has sold and leased back the latest 3 dreamliners as per the CASA register.

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Brenden S

Has anyone noted the last few register updates that Qantas seem to be buying a fair few aircraft off lease? Also of note QF looks like it has sold and leased back the latest 3 dreamliners as per the CASA register.

Fairly standard tax effective capital management they have been doing for years, lease expensive assets while buying assets off lease at low capital cost. I wonder which two A330s will be the next MRTTs the government are looking for?

[Brenden S]

The next 2 A330's, who knows, but QF are not giving up any yet. Especially since they are leasing the 2 Finair ones, to cover the 2 that went for freight conversion.

[Rowan McKeever]

Originally Posted by Greg Hyde

VH-NXR has departed Canberra for Alice & Darwin and eventually VCV as SXI2350

NXR has had a protracted journey, having made it to Cebu on 15 July and eventually Sapporo on 26 July. It appears from both FR24 and flightaware that NXR yesterday flew from Sapporo via Taipei to Rayong (near Bangkok)...

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vh-nxr

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHNXR/history