Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2018

Hey everyone

Sorry to make such a big deal out of a conversation topic that was purely hypothetical.

Will be speaking to him in the morning re iris scanning and different boarding passes etc. Hopefully that'll put his paranoia to bed.

Thanks again.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2018

Rolling of the eyes!! Nah, us Aussies can roll with the punches. I had a school principal many years ago tell me that "inquisitiveness", however strange the question may seem, should be actively encouraged to ensure the clear workings of the mind and the brain. It has worked for me (I thi...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2018

Hi everyone, My boss is travelling in the next couple of days on the PER-MEL leg of QF10 and he's raised a question which my Friday afternoon brain just cannot give an answer to. Hypothetical situation is that his mate who looks very similar to him, boards QF10 in London having passed through immigr...

Re: Airports where pax had to use stairs to board 747, DC-10, L-1011

I boarded a 772 via stairs at SIN for my flight back to PER. Was 1999, and my first trip out of Australia

Re: SAA considers selling off assets as debt balloons

Welkom in Suid Afrika!

On the bright side, looking forward to QF metal on PER-JNB

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2018

For those interested in PER there is another 747 freighter due in PER tonight being an Atlas 747F and tomorrow I have heard there are 2 SQ 747F's arriving Do you know what the occasion is for all the freighters visiting PER ? I'd love to know the occassion. Haven't been able to get out there for ag...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2018

Driving into PER this morning I noticed something unusual, there is a Qantas 737 on the taxiway parallel to runway 3/21 but is perpendicular across the taxiway between intersections A9 and A11 I’ve taken a photo but unfortunately I was not Close enough to get a good shot https://twitter.com/brendan...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2018

The weather here in Perth has been pretty atrocious the last few days, but does anyone know the minima last night/this morning? PER recently finished upgrading the ILS equipment and lighting on 03/21 to prevent exactly this sort of thing. Bit of a shame if the first foggy morning of the cold season...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2018

The weather here in Perth has been pretty atrocious the last few days, but does anyone know the minima last night/this morning? PER recently finished upgrading the ILS equipment and lighting on 03/21 to prevent exactly this sort of thing. Bit of a shame if the first foggy morning of the cold season ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2018

SYDSpotter wrote:

The new SIN-SYD-CBR-SIN service (SQ 288) started today. I fly out on SQ288 on Friday night, so it'll be interesting to see the loads and the proportion of passengers ex SYD vs ex CBR.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2018

Good morning everyone. Can't believe it's May already. Thought I'd kick things off this month with the report on Perth Now that PER Airport's new boss has official commenced his role. With previous experience running the mining company FMG and seeing first hand how airport congestion affects both th...

Re: Was there a Concorde flight BA191?

Meant* Could have* What is wrong with you people Modern "education". Their are many examples of it's advantage on this forum, more flexible then the old variant ever could of bean. I realise this was a facetious reply, and if it weren't so late at night I may have chuckled. However, I hav...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2018

The roughly 22 hours gives it plenty of time to get to elsewhere in SE Asia and back too. Would be interesting to see QF restart PER-SIN to feed onto the A388 flight ex MEL for those that don't want to fly direct across the planet. But if we consider it as 22 hours plus a day because of the 4x week...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2018

AusBT is reporting that QF PER-JNB will begin on 7th December, operate 4 weekly Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. QF65 will depart PER at 1245, no arrival time into JNB made yet but would arrive around 1745-1800 time meaning it would arrive at a similar time to QF63 from SYD QF66 Departs JNB ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2018

AusBT is reporting that QF PER-JNB will begin on 7th December, operate 4 weekly Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. QF65 will depart PER at 1245, no arrival time into JNB made yet but would arrive around 1745-1800 time meaning it would arrive at a similar time to QF63 from SYD QF66 Departs JNB ...

Re: Most unique long-haul movement(s) at your local airport

My home airport is PER,

There's a certain QF9 you may have heard of recently.
As well as SAA's only Australian destination which uses a combination of A343, A346 and as of recently, A332

Re: Inaugural QF MEL-PER-LHR this Saturday 24 March

Perthling on holiday in Lombok. Just tracked and listened to QF10's arrival with LiveATC and FR24. Can't wait to see her in the flesh (ummm... In the composite)

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - March 2018

Purely playing Devil’s advocate here as I don’t see PER-CDG starting this calendar year either (return on investment is one thing, but they need the birds to fly it) But, next/prochain sometimes functions differently in English as compared to French. An example in the same article is referring to PE...

Re: Smallest "city" with the most or largest # of jet flights?

Paro, in Bhutan would have to be a contender. Its population is only 15,000 and there aren't a huge number of flights, but I believe the terrain around the field necessitates 100% jet ops.

Happy for this comment to be deleted if I'm mistaken.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - January 2018

Hey guys,
Have just seen an An 124 leave PER from 21. Anyone know why it was here?

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2017

A passenger on board a QF flight CBR-MEL refused to set their personal device to flight mode causing the aircraft to return to the gate. The alleged passenger is said to be a company chief executive who should know better. http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/qantas-flight-delayed...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

Hey guys, Someone suggested in another thread (about QF taking delivery of the 789) that they thought QF should try PER-LAX non-stop as it's (only) 300nm longer than PER-LHR, into a port that has a long and successful history for them. It got overlooked due to the photos and coverage of the arrival,...

Re: Qantas to take delivery of 1st 787-9 this Tuesday (17 Oct), next route for 787-9 may be announced this week

Just a off the wall, perhaps PER LAX, it’s only about 300nm longer than PER LHR and we know LAX is a good gateway for them... -m Underrated suggestion I'm not sure PER would have the O&D traffic to support it, especially as North Americans tend to focus on the postcard cities of Sydney and Melb...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

Hey guys, So happy that Seattle is being mentioned as a possible QF port... my dream destination from Australia! As for -ZNA's name, I believe that someone has confirmed somewhere else on the web that it will be 'Great Southern Land'... I still prefer 'Dreamtime' however for the initial delivery. '...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

Does QF have the rights (or reason) to make MEL-PER-LHR into a round the world flight, similar to what NZ offer? Perhaps MEL-PER-LHR-LAX-MEL? I'd say QF could fly LHR-LAX but I really doubt they will do it. NZ no longer off RTW, HKG-LHR was dropped in 2013. Understood, and thanks. Perhaps once they...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

Does QF have the rights (or reason) to make MEL-PER-LHR into a round the world flight, similar to what NZ offer?
Perhaps MEL-PER-LHR-LAX-MEL?

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

I remember hearing that EK wanted to go twice daily 388, this would be an upgrade of note EK has already operated twice daily A380 to PER, between August 2016 and March of this year. Actually EK axed the second A388 service to PER in Oct 16, it then returned for Dec/Jan and then went back to 777 in...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2017

I have heard a rumour that an airline servicing PER in considering upgrading equipment That's a broad clue. MH 738-333 TG 788-359/772/77W SQ 333/772-388/77W/359 NZ 789-772 SA 343-346 CX 333-359/77W Could be anyone what do EY use? 332 to 77W/789? You use upgrade rather than upgauge so something newe...

RE: Australian Aviation Thread Part 136

Didn't see it mentioned here, but I read this morning that the An-225 is coming to Perth on two dates in April.

Can't wait! If it's here while I'm on my honeymoon I'll be damned well re-scheduling!

RE: Australian Aviation Thread Part 130

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RE: Hub-To-Hub "Shuttles"

SYD-<acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym> is an obvious one. Though this is above hourly. There are also essentially shuttle services between international cities eg <acronym title="London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL), United Kingdom">LHR</acronym>-<acr...

RE: Australian Aviation Thread 110

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BAeRJ100" class="quote" target="_blank">BAeRJ100</a> (<a href="#56" class="quote">Reply 56</a>):<br/><i>I believe they adopted QJet for that sid...

RE: Australian Aviation Thread 110

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BAeRJ100" class="quote" target="_blank">BAeRJ100</a> (<a href="#52" class="quote">Reply 52</a>):<br/><i>It still happens, at least in <acronym t...

RE: Why Do Airlines Change Their Names?

I would imagine that in most instances (barring mergers), it would be to increase brand recognition or to consolidate different branches of the same airline.

A fairly recent example here in Oz: Virgin Blue and V Australia being sensibly changed to Virgin Australia.

RE: EK A380 Diverted To PER

So I missed her, that's a shame. Thanks for the link.

Anyone know details as to why and how it was handled?

EK A380 Diverted To PER

I didn't see this mentioned in the forum, but I've just heard on the radio that an <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym> A380 enroute <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym> - <acronym title="Dub...

RE: Boeing 748 Writes 12 In The Sky For Super Bowl

Thanks for the info guys. Fantastic