September 2012 - New Deliveries / First Flights etc

[Grahame Hutchison]

From Airbus Deliveries ...

Airbus A320 -232 5270 VH-VFI Jetstar delivery 18 Sep 2012 TLS-MCT-SIN ex F-WWIF

[Dom Fortey]

Morning All,

Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 VH-YIR has started its delivery flight to Australia as VBH9882


Dom,

[Mark Grima]

Seems that YIR is spending 19 odd hours on the ground in Hawaii. This seems to be a rather long time. Is it normal?

Appears to be only spending a couple hours at Nadi, which sounds about right.

Cheers

M

[Rowan McKeever]

Not an expert but I'd imagine one crew probably takes the aircraft right through to NAN where another crew would take over? And probably the second crew would've ferried in from Oz in time to do so?

[JamesL]

The crew overnight in Hawaii then operate through to BNE in one day.

[Daniel Ayto]

Evening all,

Cathay Pacific has taken delivery of Airbus 330-300 B-LAP today. Should become a regular visitor to Australia.