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Old 27th August 2021, 11:02 AM
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On its way to Al Minhad Airbase [NHD] for refugee transfer to Darwin.
FlightRadar24 has it as QF85 departing at 10 a.m. Same site also has another flight tomorrow and one on Monday.
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Old 27th August 2021, 11:04 AM
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Found it on flightaware.
Going to Dubai on behalf of the RAAF


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VH-ZNI has popped up on flight radar with a call sign of ASY-092.
Military charter?
Could it be going to the middle east?
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Old 27th August 2021, 12:22 PM
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Exactly, as Flightaware states - to NHD [= Al Minhad Airbase], which is the military airfield all the RAAF flights (& NZAF) have been/are using for their transfers out of Kabul.

An interesting side effect of this crisis was watching ZNK transit the Middle East area yesterday en-route to Instanbul at 43000' and well clear of normal routes over Afghanistan.

With ZNH just completing a DRW-DEL-DRW rotation this morning, and ZNJ due to do one today, Howard Springs is going to fill up rapidly. ZNK is due back in Darwin late tomorrow, ZNA from London on Monday, then apparently ZNI will be back from Al Minhad on Tuesday - with no destination available at present, it may be going to Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide or Hobart instead.

Add in those additional repatriation flights announced on 26th by Qantas to Frankfurt (2), Vancouver and Johannesburg ... seems fortunate that ZNF is going to Brisbane rather than Darwin with its ? repatriation passengers from Cape Town.
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Old 27th August 2021, 02:27 PM
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I was told that the Springboks Rugby Union team were on ZNF ????????
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Old 27th August 2021, 02:56 PM
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Seems more logical Denis, based on flight numbers. Thanks.
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Old 28th August 2021, 09:52 AM
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ZNF off today again at 10.05 as ASY94, BNE/NHD
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Old 30th August 2021, 08:43 AM
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What's with QF 6016 from MEL-ANC nonstop? This is the second 787 to ANC in a few weeks.
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Old 30th August 2021, 02:16 PM
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Since that last flight [QF6043] came back via LAX as QF6016, presumably another ADF Charter, this time to bring the next rotation of US troops into Darwin ?
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Old 30th August 2021, 02:19 PM
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After positioning to Sydney as QF7704 yesterday, today ZNE is positioning as ASY95 to Dubai : SYD-NHD
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Old 5th September 2021, 02:42 PM
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ZNK is about to land in DRW with 500k doses of vaccine from the UK
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