My last precovid trip was to Japan in November 2019 flying SQ BNE-SIN-NRT and the reverse routing back on a mixture of A350-900/A380/777-300ER. In Japan I did a few domestic flights on a mix of JL/NH 777-200 (A and ER) and A350-900. As well as a Shinkansen trip between TYO and OSA. On the return I h...
Jump to postLately I have a preference for tea. Generally - Yorkshire Tea taken with a dash of milk, no sugar. - Lipton again dash of milk, no sugar (Not as good as Yorkshire, but it's what is in the tearoom at work.) - Twinings Green Tea with Lemon taken as is. (A good energy boost for the afternoon) Sometimes...
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Asia
Japan
Singapore
Thailand
Europe
France
Iceland
Netherlands
Norway
United Kingdom
Oceania
Australia
(New Caledonia)
New Zealand
Vanuatu
vhqpa wrote:Don't have any numbers on hand but I'd say LAX, JFK and MEM are contenders, perhaps even SDF.
Don't have any numbers on hand but I'd say LAX, JFK and MEM are contenders, perhaps even SDF.
Jump to postI'm on a unlimited 100/20 plan (my RSP has temporarily upgraded me to 100/40 for six months) on the Australian NBN network (FTTN) for 89.95 AUD/month. I just got 83.1Mbps Down/31.6 Mbps Up with 7ms latency on a test. But have achieved as high as 102.1Mbps up. With the NBN network FTTN is the worst f...
Jump to postNobody on board the KLM flight survived. After the impact, the fuel on board ignited. That would be correct. She stayed behind because she lived in Tenerife, so didn't see a point in re-boarding the flight only to have to fly back to Tenerife again. In the documentary in question, the boarding was ...
Jump to postRex to launch Sydney-Canberra flights from April 19 https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/rex-canberra-sydney-flights I like the part where they say ZL have the flexibility to swap the Saabs for 737s according to demand. Given their reported SYD-MEL loads maybe they can dispense with the 737s alt...
Jump to postAny idea if there are any Qantas or QantasLink birds still in the 1986-2007 livery? I know there were still a few 717s and 737s a few years back As far as I know everything is either in Newroo (Do we still call it that?) or Silveroo The last couple of VY 73Hs have been painted in Silveroo, as far a...
Jump to postThere's a reason why most countries around the world didn't adopt mandatory voting like Australia Do explain further in great detail the basis of this comment and your own experience/knowledge to back up the comment. I’d be very interested to know. I have heard of some from Australia where one woul...
Jump to postG’day and welcome to my trip report. This covers the rest of my Europe trip I took back in November/December 2018. I had initially started posting a series of long multipart posts, there were to be 6 parts in total. I got as far as part Part 3 before I lost motivation. Now that Covid has curtailed t...
Jump to postFrom what I can recall: BAC 1-11 (Brooklands Museum) Boeing 707-138B (Qantas Founders Museum) Boeing 747-200B (Qantas Founders Museum) Concorde (Brooklands Museum) De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (Queensland Aviation Museum) Douglas DC-3/C-47 (Central Australia Aviation Museum, and McDonalds Taupo...
Jump to postOn a side note Never understood why legacy airlines in Oz try to cover everything In the US it seems more like airlines stick to their hubs An example for Oz may be VA could be Brisbane centric with Mel or Syd as secondary Vastly different markets. You can't compare a domestic market with 328 milli...
Jump to postRE: Rex's announcement dropping five routes, should they loose the subsidy. Most of those don't really need to be subsidised. - Bathurst is only 45 minutes from Orange, if by their own account OAG is too small to support two Airlines, then all the better to consolidate BHS and OAG. - Cooma is only 8...
Jump to postI personally am not a fan of a cosy 2 airline set up on capital city's, there is no real competition, not when QF own Jetstar and VA owned Tiger No matter how many times QF knock down a third player there will still be another one waiting to have a go But is Australia really big enough for more tha...
Jump to postA couple I know of F1 - Assigned to Air New Zealand (must have been with 747-200 order), but never used. They continued to use the 19 code originally assigned to NAC (Domestic predecessor which was a very early 737 customer). D4 - Ozark. Ordered two 727-200, but cancelled before delivery. Both went ...
Jump to postA - ADL, AEY, AKL, ALF, AMS, ASP, AYQ B - BCI*, BGO, BHE, BKQ* BNE, BOO* C - CBR, CDG, CHC, CNS, CTS D - DRW E - (Yet to complete) F - (Yet to complete) G - GLT*, GRY H - HKK, HKT, HND I - ITM J - (Yet to complete) K - KEF, KGC L - LHR, LRE, LSY M - MCY, MEL, MKY N - NRT, NTL O - OOL, OSL P - PER, P...
Jump to postRE: QF and India As far as I recall when it was first relaunched in the early-mid 2000s it started off SYD-BOM-SYD nonstop 747-300. QF123/124 IIRC. Then it went SYD-DRW-BOM-SYD when it was downgauged to A330-300, before going nonstop both directions when it was further downgauged to an A330-200. Aft...
Jump to postKiwirob wrote:It should be turned into a museum.
First thing that comes to mind is Antonov's An-22 UR-09307 according to FR24 it was quite active through to at least October 2020, with a few flights since then the most recent the other day (12/JAN).
Nowadays I doubt you could do what the OP's relatives did back then in GVA. Spontaneously decide an unscheduled stopover, once the flight was already on it's way. There's the issue of the airline having to round up your checked bag/s which would be tagged to your final destination. Also potential se...
Jump to postHistorically Qantas have named routes Kangaroo Route - Australia to Europe via SE Asia Southern Cross Route - Australia to Europe via North America Fiesta Route - Australia to Europe via Mexico/Caribbean Wallaby Route - Australia to South Africa Secret Order of the Double Sunrise - Perth to Ceylon n...
Jump to postAccording to FR24 The following aircraft are at LAX. OQB, OQD, ZNG and ZNI.
ZNI flew in from BNE 29/12 so we can dismiss that aircraft.
Does QF do third party work at LAX? I haven't heard of them doing so.
QF should order 10 779s to replace the 10 744s use them on the former 744 routes and use the A35Js for the SYD-JFK/LHR nonstop. The 747-400/-400ER fleet has already been replaced, primarily by 787-9s, and it's been a while since the fleet has numbered 10, at least 3 or 4 years. It's going to take a...
Jump to postIn Australia McDonald's (6/10) A bit plain, but good enough and readily available Hungry Jacks (Burger King) (4/10) Not gross but there's always something about their burgers that leaves me unsatisfied. Carl's Jr (6/10) Okay burgers, great shakes, not too keen on their chips (fries) Grill'd (9.5/10)...
Jump to postNot to mention it retains a redundant fleet type which could otherwise be eliminated once the existing A330 fleet is retired.
Jump to postOnly Qantas 747-338 (EBT) 747-438 (OJD) 747-438ER (OEE/OEG/OEI) And all on a single city pair BNE-SYD. When I went to Japan last year in hindsight I should have flown QF via SYD, as they were still flying 747s on SYD-HND. But I went SQ via SIN I've also visited the preserved QF 747-238B (EBQ) at LRE...
Jump to postAll done for the year now August 2020 Alliance Airlines QQ2318 Brisbane (BNE) - Proserpine (PPP) Fokker 70 VH-QQV Alliance Airlines QQ2311 Proserpine (PPP) - Brisbane (BNE) Fokker 100 VH-UQG December 2020 Qantaslink(Sunstate) QF2530 Brisbane (BNE) - Longreach (LRE) via Blackall (BKQ) De Havilland Ca...
Jump to postI also noticed QPC doing a pax BNE-MEL run yesterday (02/12) QF617. No doubt to cater to a surge of demand with the border reopening the previous day. The 333 fleet have also been running a few freight runs overnight.
Jump to postthe DFW-SYD pax went through another security screening in BNE, but I don't know if they cleared immigration/customs in BNE or SYD. I'm pretty sure the DFW-SYD passengers cleared immigration and customs in SYD. I believe it was also possible for BNE originating passengers to take that flight, go th...
Jump to postThe livery is nice, but the new name is terrible. Hopefully they drop the "FLY" from the titles. Wish them all the best.
Jump to postIn close elections I don't find particular odd for it to take days to finalise the result. We had a state election (Queensland, Australia) 31 October. Even a week later there are still three close seats that haven't been determined, although it this case it won't change the outcome as Labor already ...
Jump to postIt appears the federal government is reviewing security screening requirements at regional airports, rather than having a blanket rule for aircraft over a certain capacity/MTOW, each airport will be risk assessed. From the article Barcaldine and Longreach (both Q400 ports) already have an exemption ...
Jump to postNot sure if this is the reason but looking at the history it seems to be avoiding Iranian airspace, usually taking a northerly routing over Russia and Kazakhstan. Perhaps with the winds today it worked out more economical today taking the southerly routing with no Russian overflight fees.
Jump to postFirst piston was a Cessna 172N doing a pattern at YBAF (Archerfield, Brisbane AU) when I was in scouts getting my air activities badge.
No piston airliners so far
After an interesting but off topic discussion on monarchies in the ”GOP Senator comes out against democracy thread" I figured it deserved it's own thread. This is mainly aimed at posters in other monarchies, not just the Commonwealth realms but other monarchies too (Spain, Norway, Denmark, Neth...
Jump to postName one. By way of their determination to control their peoples - and prevent those peoples from seeking a change to democratic governance - every monarchy I've seen relies on militarism to support itself. Really, NZ, Canada and Australia are monarchies do you see the military propping them up? No...
Jump to postAlliance to fly CNS-CBR, and MCY-CBR from 23 October. CNS is quite a long stage for a Fokker. Alliance Airlines will begin flying direct to Cairns and the Sunshine Coast from Canberra on October 23, with more destinations added in the future. https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12701688
Jump to postI guess the closest thing possible to universal favourites would be:
- Concorde
- B747
- VC10
But then other higher popular aircraft would be:
- B727
- B757
- L1011
Re: Air NZ and Australia Given their track record I can't see them investing in Australia for a long time especially post covid. Once the trans Tasman border is reopened they're better off just focusing on the main international ports and let QF take any connecting passengers the rest of the way. It...
Jump to postRe. Ansett's attempts for international service. Before HBA-CHC they applied to operate TSV-SIN (No mention of a stop, but presumably DRW) in 1980 they operated a single charter flight 18 April 1980 optd. by 727-200 VH-RMO, but were denied the authority to make it a regular flight. Coincidentally RM...
Jump to postI recall reading in the investigation of KAL007, that the fighter pilots of the 1978 incident, KAL902, were severely reprimanded for not “completing the job” allowing the 707 to escape. It was said that the fighter pilots who brought down KAL007 had this in mind. If they allowed the target to escap...
Jump to postRecently it would my return BNE-PPP trip last week each with roughly 30 pax on a Fokker 70/100. Pre covid I've been one of 4 pax on a Saab 340, also a few trips late in the evening on sectors like SYD-BNE, ADL-BNE where it's been 20-30 pax on a 737-800. For long haul I've been on an A380 flight SIN-...
Jump to postVirgin Australia were 9 abreast on their 77W fleet. But they are stored and will be leaving the fleet shortly.
Jump to postI’ve been checking the Alliance BNE - PPP since it started and I see it fluctuates between F70 and F100. Is this simply a numbers issue? I’m assuming now JQ and VA are back on the route the numbers aren’t quite there as they were in late June when it started. I assume so. I flew them up to PPP toda...
Jump to postCurrent
1. SAS
2. Air Canada
3. Air Vanuatu
747 - Most likely at SIN transiting through in Early 1994. There was a picture taken of me taken at T2 with a SQ 747-300 taxiing behind. A340 - Not sure exactly but the earliest I can definitely remember was an Emirates A340-500 at SYD around 2004. A380 - 16 November 2005. I remember cutting school ...
Jump to postI've only done it a couple of times LA/DJ AKL-SYD-BNE back in 2009. Quite painful. No way to recheck bag in T1, had to lug it onto a packed commuter train to get to T2. Crazy long queue to check bag once I reached T2. But I had a huge buffer so I still had plenty of time. FI/DY KEF-OSL-BGO. Daytrip ...
Jump to postVCVSpotter wrote:Qantas A380 VH-OQH filed MEL-VCV 12:30PM - 9:19AM as QF6001 for storage.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA6001
It's hard to pick a definitive ugly aircraft a few that come to mind Airbus A380 - I agree with the concensus that it looks quite ungainly, but the spacious cabin is by far the best aircraft to fly long haul on. 6052375 ATR42/72 - There's something just so awkward about it's shape. I'm not sure if i...
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