2 legitimate fifth freedom flights
AKL-SYD LA 343
BNE-AKL EK 388
Also done QF SIN-LHR, and while I did join that particular flight in Singapore I was connecting from another QF flight from Australia.
Emirates (BNE-AKL)
LAN (AKL-SYD)
JAL (CTS-HND)
KLM (AMS-CDG)
Strategic Airlines (BNE-TSV)
Pacific Blue (CHC-AKL)
Widerøe (TOS-ALF)
Skytrans (BNE-TWB)
Brindabella Airlines (TMW-BNE)
Aeropelican (NTL-SYD)
From Brisbane (BNE) Toowoomba/Wellcamp* (WTB) 71 nm served by Rex Saab 340 as a stop on state government contracted milk runs to Mount Isa and Thargomindah. Closet non contracted (and stand alone) route is Hervey Bay (HVB) served by Qantaslink Dash 8-400, which clocks in at 124 nm. * A funny thing i...
Jump to postAn advantage of offering DFW/IAH as a transit point over LAX/SFO is Dallas and Houston are just close enough to fall within the LGA perimeter. Allowing an attractive 1 stop MEL-DFW-LGA. I was going to say the same with DCA But it appears AA and UA both have well timed beyond perimeter LAX/SFO-DCA fl...
Jump to postUsing the parameters set out by the OP Shortest Mainline: Brisbane (BNE) -Toowoomba City (TWB) 65 nm by Skytrans DHC8-100 Longest Regional: Cairns (CNS) - Alice Springs (ASP) 785 nm by Qantaslink/National Jet Systems B717-200 And a grey area flight Akureyri (AEY) - Grimsey (GRY) 54 nm by Norlandair ...
Jump to postI'm pretty sure mine is B737-476 LN:2785 (VH-TJY) with three individual flights on Qantas: BNE-SYD, BNE-CBR and CBR-MEL. 2106216 There's about half dozen frames I've logged twice, the most interesting was B737-76N LN:1090. The first time with Virgin Blue as VH-VBM on a MEL-BNE sector in 2007, then a...
Jump to postBNE-SYD for me
A320-200
A321-200
A330-200
A330-300
B737-400
B737-700
B737-800
B747-300
B747-400
B747-400ER
B767-300ER
E170
E190
Dancing Queen by ABBA - I quite like ABBA, but I don't understand why that particular song is so popular when they have at least 20 better songs. Mickey by Toni Basil - Just can't stand it. Hot and Cold by Katy Perry - see below. At work a several years ago now we went through a stage of overplaying...
Jump to postMy highest is three segments. back in 2008. Qantaslink Dash 8-Q400 BNE-GLT-ROK-MKY the flight continued onto TSV and CNS, but ex-BNE it was only possible to book the milkrun by itself as far as MKY. Now the milkrun only operates as far south as ROK. We stayed on the aircraft for the GLT stop, but ha...
Jump to postNow on its way back. According to FR24 it's going back nonstop to Entebbe.
Jump to postNorlandair in Iceland give out free hand-written certificates in excellent calligraphy, to those who fly between Akureyri and Grimsey. Technically, the certificate isn't *entirely* accurate, as the marker rock is about 30 mins walk north of Grimsey airport... but the runway is roughly north-south a...
Jump to postTornadoes can happen anywhere the conditions permit. Where I am in Australia we get tornadoes occasionally. In fact there was one that went through my local airport (BNE) last October. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-22/qld-storms-tornado-bom-rain-hail-weather-supercell/100558628 I'm pretty sure...
Jump to postThis might be a bold statement but I quite like the current livery of JAL. 6717509 It took a long time to grow on me, but to me it evokes the sense of Japanese Minimalism. I think the large black titles saves the livery. I'm just happy they brought back the Tsurumaru which was absent from the previo...
Jump to postThere are past threads that go into the various engine codes, for example "A320-211" and "A321-231." Among the two major engine types (CFM and IAE) there are even more subvariants with different thrust ratings. IAE is a triple spool design (three sets of compressors and turbines...
Jump to postThere were options from two different engine companies on the ceo. CFM (JV between GE and Safran) had the CFM56-5A, superseded by the CFM56-5B. IAE (JV between PW and couple of other firms) had the V2500-A1, superseded by the V2500-A5. This is the longer engine that you describe. I'm not qualified t...
Jump to postThe only two I can think of HKK (Hokitika, NZ) - flew in from CHC, took a coach and train back to Christchurch later that day. ITM (Osaka Itami, JP) - flew ITM-HND, arrived a few days earlier by Shinkansen from Tokyo. One I forgot TWB (Toowoomba City, AU) - made a half day trip out of flying the 19...
Jump to postA bit subjective to know what qualifies but some smaller airlines I've flown. Aeropelican (Australia) Air National (New Zealand) Brindabella Airlines (Australia) Norlandair (Iceland) All but the last one are no longer flying. But then there's airlines I've flown like Widerøe and Norwegian, which are...
Jump to postThe only two I can think of
HKK (Hokitika, NZ) - flew in from CHC, took a coach and train back to Christchurch later that day.
ITM (Osaka Itami, JP) - flew ITM-HND, arrived a few days earlier by Shinkansen from Tokyo.
Nothing new for 2021 for me. A: ADL, AEY, AKL, ALF, AMS, ASP, AYQ B: BCI*, BGO, BHE#, BKQ*, BOO*, BNE C: CBR, CDG, CHC, CNS, CTS D: DRW E: F: G: GLT*, GRY H: HKK, HKT, HND I: ITM J: K: KEF, KGC L: LHR, LRE, LSY# M: MCY, MEL, MKY N: NRT, NTL O: OOL, OSL P: PER, PPP Q: R: RKV, ROK S: SIN, SYD T: TMW, ...
Jump to postThe other way round now starting with local airlines and moving out further. Qantas - 747-400 Virgin Australia - 737-800 Jetstar - A320 Air New Zealand - 777-300ER Ansett - 727-200 TAA - 727-200 Australian - 737-300 Garuda - A330-300 Singapore Airlines - A350-900 Malaysia Airlines - A330-300 Thai - ...
Jump to postLet's see A300 - TAA A310 - Lufthansa A318 - Air France A319 - Air France A320 - Ansett A321 - Jetstar A330 - Qantas A340 - Lan A350 - Singapore Airlines A380 - Emirates B707 - Qantas B717 - Airtran B727 - Ansett B737 - Southwest B747 - Qantas B757 - British Airways B767 - Qantas B777 - Emirates B78...
Jump to postQantas new international routes, after SYD-PER-FCO announced they said they were going to announce some more leisure orientated routes, what do you think may be announced? This is what I'm looking forward to most it's quite interesting to see a much more nimble QF jump into these sort of markets, a...
Jump to postI wonder if the DC-10-15s for "hot and high" airports used what you call "rating plugs" on those CF6 powerplants? I believe the DC-10-15s used CF6-50 engines, instead of the CF6-6 engines on the 10 series. So it was essentially a DC-10-10 with DC-10-30 engines. As I understand i...
Jump to postI’ve only a couple of long haul red eyes. In 2018 I flew QF with a redeye on SIN-LHR. Despite my best efforts I had no sleep at all on the flight. About an hour and a half before arrival I had two coffees and that was enough to get me through to the late afternoon when I was able to check into my ho...
Jump to postGiven there's nothing new that can match the 717 for their inter island operation. I'm not sure how realistic this is, bit could an option be fleet of around 12-15 secondhand A320s. Configured with around 170 seats in a 2 class layout, have them fly inter island at a reduced frequency with longer tu...
Jump to postFrom a pure comfort perspective -Airbus A330-200/300 - Airbus A350-900 - Airbus A380-800 - Embraer 170/190 From a fun to fly perspective - Boeing 717-200 - DHC-6-300 Twin Otter - Dash 8-100/200/300/400 - Fokker 70/100 From a special aircraft perspective - Boeing 727-200 (Glad I managed to fly on one...
Jump to postDone my two flights for the year.
October 2021
Virgin Australia VA1388 BNE-ADL 737-8FE VH-YFL
Virgin Australia VA1403 ADL-BNE 737-8FE VH-YIE
upgraded to J both sectors.
Managed to avoid border closures unlike the first two attempts.
Just Rex for me.
BNE-LSY-SYD SF340B VH-ORX
ADL-KGC SF340B VH-RXS
KGC-ADL SF340B VH-RXS
Rex 737-800 VH-RYU (ex VH-VOM) has just landed in Singapore being ferried MEL-DRW-XSP.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHRYU/history/20211030/0300Z/YPDN/WSSL
As far as RPT airports are concerned. Where I live (Brisbane outter north) there is one primary airport, and two defacto secondary airports within a two hour drive, with a further two just outside the two hour boundary. Brisbane (BNE) is my primary airport about 30 minutes from where I live. Sunshin...
Jump to postBAe Jetstream J32
- Aeropelican (Australia) NTL-SYD
- Air National (New Zealand) CHC-HKK
BAe Jetstream J41
- Brindabella Airlines (Australia) TMW-BNE
All Airlines no longer in business.
Interesting thread For the purpose of this I've included subsidiaries and contract flights under the marketing airline brand ie. All Qantaslink flights under Qantas. Sectors Flown 1. Qantas - 53 2. Virgin Blue/Australia - 40 3. Air New Zealand - 10 4. Jetstar - 7 =5. Ansett - 4 =5. REX - 4 =5. Tiger...
Jump to postOnly a few
ATR 72-500
Mount Cook Airline (Air New Zealand) (ZK-MCOx2) CHC-ZQN, ZQN-CHC
ATR 72-600
Mount Cook Airline (Air New Zealand) (ZK-MVK) WLG-CHC
Skywest Airlines (Virgin Australia) (VH-FVP) TSV-CNS
Ahh my favourite prop. I was waiting for this one Here's my list Dash 8-100 Skytrans Regional (VH-QQF) Dash 8-200 Sunstate Airlines (Qantaslink) (VH-SDAx2) Dash 8-300 Eastern Australia Airlines (Qantaslink) (VH-TQE) Sunstate Airlines (Qantaslink) (VH-SBV/SCE/TQL) Widerøe (LN-WFS) Dash 8-400 Air Icel...
Jump to postFokker 70: Alliance VH-QQV
Fokker 100: Alliance VH-FKA*/UQG/XWS**
* - Qantaslink marketed flight
** - Virgin Australia marketed flight
Unfortunately no F28 flights I have fond memories of watching (and hearing!) them in DRW as a kid in the 90s.
Shortest Wide body: HND-ITM 219nm 1h10m blocked (actual flight time around 50 min) NH 777-200 Longest Narrow body: PER-BNE 1952nm usually around 4h 30m blocked (closer to 4h most often actual flight time) on both QF and VA 737-800. Usually longer going westbound but I've only done east bound in a na...
Jump to post3 flights, 3 Airlines
1. Emirates A6-EEO BNE-AKL
2. Qantas VH-OQH SIN-LHR
3. Singapore Airlines 9V-SKQ SIN-NRT
IMHO Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if they never came back online...
Jump to postPure speculation on my part. For the regional fleet given that Qantas already has a wet leasing relationship with Alliance. I can see Qantas buying a fleet of E190/195 E2 to replace the 717 fleet. These will be leased to Alliance who operate them on contract for Qantaslink for the Central and East C...
Jump to postJust one
A340-300
Lan (CC-CQC) on a 5th freedom leg AKL-SYD in J
WTB gets CX 748F, 77W, A350s, population of 295. If we're going down that road may as well add: SYD in Mascot, NSW (pop 14,772) MEL in Tullamarine, VIC (pop 6,605) Don’t think you have been to WTB to make a comment like that, there is nothing about. Have a look at a satellite photo. I get your poin...
Jump to postzeke wrote:WTB gets CX 748F, 77W, A350s, population of 295.
I'm a bit short on A330s
A330-200
- Qantas
A330-300
- Qantas
Unfortunately only the 717 for me with both Jetstar and Qantaslink
Jump to postOnly a few
Boeing 777-200
ANA - All Nippon Airlines
Boeing 777-200ER
Air New Zealand
ANA - All Nippon Airlines
Boeing 777-300ER
Singapore Airlines
I was booked on a NH 777-300(A) but it got downgauged to a -200ER
Short list for me
-300ER
- Qantas (both native -338ER, and ex BA -336ER subfleets)
- Icelandair
There's a possibility I flew on a QF -200ER DRW-SIN-DRW in February 1994. It was definitely a QF 767 but I was too young to take notice of the variant.
First 2021 flights booked
October 2021
Virgin Australia VA1388 Brisbane (BNE) - Adelaide (ADL) B737-700
Virgin Australia VA1403 Adelaide (ADL) - Brisbane (BNE) B737-800
The border is open for now, but a lot can change in five weeks.
A318
Air France
A319
Air France
A320
Air New Zealand
Jetstar (AU)
Strategic Airlines
Tiger Airways/Tigerair (AU)
A320neo
Scandinavian (SAS Ireland)
A321
Jetstar (AU)
Air New Zealand -300
Ansett Australia -300
KLM -800
Norwegian -800
Scandinavian -600/-700/-800
SilkAir -300
Qantas -300/-400/-800
Virgin Blue/Virgin Australia/Pacific Blue -700/-800