September 2014 New Deliveries / First Flights

[Zac M]

XZN went into service yesterday

[Greg Hyde]

XZN First QF revenue service, QF511, Brisbane to Sydney

[Greg Hyde]

A few VA movements

A332 VH-XFJ as F-WWYS has its first flight on 26/08.

A332 VH-XFB had it's last VA service last Friday (12/09) VA694 Perth to Melbourne & departed the country today (16/09) for Singapore

B738 VH-YIZ entered service on 15/09 operating VA704 Brisbane - Hobart.

[Greg Hyde]

From Puget Sound:

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

VH-YIW B737-8FE Virgin Australia Delivered
L/N 5085 C/N 40700 B737-8FE VH-YIW VIRGIN AUSTRALIA
Dep BFI 10:31 PDT ETA LIH 12:59 HST
Call Sign VOZ9940 Hex Code 7C7AB6
Named: Mona Vale Beach
Test Reg is N6046P
Aircraft was painted at Renton

[Alex T]

Don't know how accurate this is, but FR24 says VH-XFJ is in Singapore? Is it on its delivery flight?

http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/vh-xfj

[NathanJ]

Arrives in SYD on Friday arvo i believe.

[Greg Hyde]

From Skyliners:

Airbus A330 -243 1561 VH-XFJ Virgin Australia delivery 22-23sep14 TLS-SIN-MEL ex F-WWYS

Odd for a long stopover in SIN ?
Is it going to commence its first rev service for SIN ?

[Greg Hyde]

http://australianaviation.com.au/201...-in-singapore/

Solved (maybe), XFJ is in Singapore for a VA announcement tomorrow. I expect with XFJ is the background.

[lloyd fox]

VH-QQW Alliance Fokker 70 first flight today BNE-EMD-BNE.This aircraft arrived BNE back on 23rd Feb 2013.

Cheers.

[Greg Hyde]

Lloyd,

How many of the Alliance Fokkers are still to go into service.

QQW had a test flight on the 22/09

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHQQW