December Noteworthy Movements Discussion

[Peter Agatsiotis]

B-LAR didn't operate CX100 yesterday and is still on the ground so presume mechanical problem. It is showing on Planeplotter with no position.

[Rory Delaney]

KE121 is a 777-200ER tomorrow instead of a 747-400. HL7752 is the registration.

[Jarden S]

Originally Posted by David Heath

Yeah, it was nice to see an Air NZ 747 arrive this afternoon. A somewhat rare treat.

I know that AirNZ will bring it over the tasman if the loads warrant it.

Incidently they could feasably bring it over daily as theres at least 1 747 parked up at AKL all day, in fact I've seen 12 of 20 (7 777s, 4 767s, 1 747) of their widebody fleet parked at AKL from 6am and still there at 6pm. Not great utilisation of their fleet. I wonder how that compares to QF. NZ could be one of the world worst IMO. No wonder why they rake up a $1m INTL OPS loss per week.

[Brandon Giacomin]

Just a heads up for tomorrow. ZK-OKP in "The Hobbit" livery might be in Sydney. NZ118/119 to SYD and NZ135/136 to BNE are scheduled to be operated by Boeing 777-300ER's so one will be lucky and get OKP and the other will get OKM.

EDIT: Sorry guys, I have heard that it is scheduled to go to BNE.

[Jaryd stock]

Oh bloody hell!

[Brian Wilkes]

Has Brindabella started flying there J41 in and out of Sydney yet?

[James S.]

Can confirm that Brindabella have started flying the J41 into Sydney, saw VH-TAI departing this morning.

[Brian Wilkes]

Ta James, it would be on the Cobar sector?

[Jarden S]

QF21 747 took off from Cairns (very loud I will say) at 0245 am this morning on its way to Tokyo, not sure why it was here (medical diversion maybe).

[James S.]

Originally Posted by Brian Wilkes

Ta James, it would be on the Cobar sector?

To be honest I'm not too sure, didn't manage to catch the callsign, but I think it's fairly likely anyway. Was roughly a 7:30 am departure if that helps.