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by Melb94
Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:08 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2023
Replies: 600
Views: 68239

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - October 2023

First QF flight to TLV is in the air. Interestingly it’s using Aussie as its call sign.

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by Melb94
Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:34 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2023
Replies: 776
Views: 114354

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2023

Airbus has announced the sale of 10 A350-900 to an undisclosed major airline. Could those be for Qantas? :scratchchin: https://www.flightglobal.com/air-transport/airbus-reveals-large-orders-from-undisclosed-customers-to-highlight-business-revival/153736.article Qantas has already ordered 12 A350-10...

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by Melb94
Mon May 15, 2023 5:03 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023
Replies: 822
Views: 119444

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - May 2023

bunumuring wrote:
Hey guys
FOUR USAF C-17s in and out of Sydney today? Guess we all know why! What a week it will be for Sydney plane spotters…
Take care
Bunumuring


Joe Biden will be in town for the QUAD summit. Presume it’s for his vehicles and entourage?

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by Melb94
Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:07 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023
Replies: 709
Views: 93725

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

QF744ER wrote:
Melb94 wrote:
Any ideas why VH-ZNJ is sitting in Singapore after flying QF083 SYD-SIN on Feb 2nd?


36 month inspection/check at SIAEC.


Thanks, sorry to sound ignorant but 3 years?

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by Melb94
Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023
Replies: 709
Views: 93725

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2023

Any ideas why VH-ZNJ is sitting in Singapore after flying QF083 SYD-SIN on Feb 2nd?

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by Melb94
Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:08 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2022
Replies: 374
Views: 68743

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - February 2022

Darwin to remain Qantas' London stopover in place of not only Perth but Singapore "until at least June 2022" https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qantas-sydney-melbourne-london-darwin What about the Rome FCO flights? Would they operate it via Perth or Singapore? If they chose Singapore...

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by Melb94
Fri May 28, 2021 1:11 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Is the Boeing 787-8 still pitched by Boeing?
Replies: 64
Views: 18336

Re: Is the Boeing 787-8 still (seriously) pitched by Boeing?

Doesn't Azerbaijan Airlines have some 787-8's on order?

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by Melb94
Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:35 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Saudia Plans Order Trio - A321. 777s, 787s
Replies: 27
Views: 10005

Re: Saudia Plans Order Trio - A321. 777s, 787s

Which new markets could Saudia open up if COVID was not around? Australia, Brazil, Japan, Scandinavia, Mexico, South America...?

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by Melb94
Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:04 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Boeing 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2021
Replies: 172
Views: 74338

Re: Boeing 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2021

The last Everett 787 roll-out ! The last Everett built 787, line 1095 for ANA, was moved out of the factory at 10 PM Local Time at Feb 26th 2021. (seen in the back is line number 1057 for JAL, back in the factory for rework) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvNn-55VIAgnwld?format=jpg&name=large Orig...

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by Melb94
Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Largest Unserved Markets from CDG pre-CV19
Replies: 4
Views: 980

Re: Largest Unserved Markets from CDG pre-CV19

I would presume Sydney?

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by Melb94
Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:45 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: BA service to Australia over the years
Replies: 45
Views: 8120

Re: BA service to Australia over the years

The last flight out of Perth occurred on June 30th, 2000 BA011 LHR 12.00pm 8.05am+1 SIN 9.20am 2.10pm+1 PER BA012 PER 4.55pm 10.00pm SIN 11.15pm 5.55am+1 LHR The last flight out of Melbourne occurred on March 25th, 2006 BA017 9.15pm 5.50pm+1 SIN 7.15pm 5.25am+1 MEL BA018 5.35pm 10.05pm SIN 11.35pm 5...

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by Melb94
Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:45 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: BA service to Australia over the years
Replies: 45
Views: 8120

Re: BA service to Australia over the years

The last flight out of Perth occurred on June 30th, 2000 BA011 LHR 12.00pm 8.05am+1 SIN 9.20am 2.10pm+1 PER BA012 PER 4.55pm 10.00pm SIN 11.15pm 5.55am+1 LHR I don't have the full schedule for LHR-SIN-BNE flights. If anyone has them that would be great! The last flight out of Melbourne occurred on M...

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by Melb94
Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:39 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2020
Replies: 1158
Views: 131853

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2020

Regarding repatriation flights, I saw browsing through smarttraveller on Facebook, I saw a post that PIA are going to operate a non-scheduled commercial flights from Lahore to Melbourne. It will depart on 24 April and arrive in Melbourne on 25 April. https://www.facebook.com/smartraveller.gov.au/pos...

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by Melb94
Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:21 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Covid-19 Interesting One-Off Flights
Replies: 61
Views: 10145

Re: Covid-19 Interesting One-Off Flights

Gathered a list of unusual flights operated in the last few weeks Austrian: VIE-SCL-EZE-VIE, VIE-MNL-HAN-VIE, VIE-SYD-PEN-VIE, VIE-KUL-CHC-AKL-KUL-VIE, VIE-MEX-CUN-VIE, VIE-ABV, VIE-LIM LOT Polish Airlines: WAW-BKK-SIN-SYD-SIN-WAW, WAW-CUN-VRA-WAW, WAW-CUN-LIM, WAW-CPT-ZNZ-WAW, WAW-SIN-CEB-MNL-SIN-W...

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by Melb94
Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:26 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2019
Replies: 629
Views: 72723

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - December 2019

El Al TLV-MEL now on sale, first flight on 2 April 20 https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/el-al-tel-aviv-israel-melbourne-flights-now-on-sale Did a quick search, looks like an 11:30am arrival with an 11:30pm departure. Just did a dummy flight search on LY's website. Schedule as follows: LY087 T...

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by Melb94
Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:08 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019
Replies: 589
Views: 78507

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019

http://theqantassource.com/qantas-b787- ... -flight-5/
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Captdasbomb wrote:
Is there any reason why VH-ZND has been parked in Melbourne for a week?


Maintenance according to this

http://theqantassource.com/qantas-b787- ... -flight-5/

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by Melb94
Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:49 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019
Replies: 589
Views: 78507

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - November 2019

Melbourne Airport is using runway 09 for arrivals today. When was the last time this runway was used for landings? Is it often or a rare occasion?

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by Melb94
Wed Oct 16, 2019 11:52 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread 2019
Replies: 247
Views: 84920

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread 2019

Does anyone know the next lot of 777 being produced? After looking at various websites I have found that 1615 Unknown Customer 1620 Unknown Customer 1624 Unknown Customer 1626 AeroLogic D-AALN 777F 1631 Swiss HB-JNK 77W 1634 United N2749U 77W 1639 United N2250U 77W 1643 United N2251U 77W 1648 United...

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by Melb94
Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:42 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LAX west remote gates
Replies: 15
Views: 4787

Re: LAX west remote gates

Does anyone have photos of the inside of the remote gates?

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by Melb94
Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:05 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: LAX to India
Replies: 48
Views: 9682

Re: LAX to India

I'd be very curious to see what India O/D loads on ME3 are at LAX vs. SFO. Etihad, which I thought would do well at SFO, pulled out in 2017. They were notoriously using the lesser product "Jetihad" 777s on the route which is strange when you consider the premium tech traffic they should h...

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by Melb94
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:51 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Updated: UA Announcing CUR, NCE and PMO and expanding some existing routes
Replies: 251
Views: 40984

Re: UA Network Planning Event 8/22/2019

I can only guess the new routes can be:

SFO-BRU
SFO-VIE
SFO-GVA
SFO-NGO
EWR-SVQ
EWR-BLR
IAH-TLV

Any chance of United return to Africa or the Middle East?

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by Melb94
Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:59 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: British Airways 747 Route Network of the past.
Replies: 100
Views: 16877

Re: British Airways 747 Route Network of the past.

BA017/018 (LHR-SIN-MEL) until March 2006

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by Melb94
Mon Jul 08, 2019 6:28 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2019
Replies: 429
Views: 72758

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2019

David_itl wrote:
The first non-stop MAN-Australia service is about to land in PER. Admittedly it's only a charter with fewer than 100 VIPs on board but still a bit newsworthy.


Any other news?

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by Melb94
Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:54 am
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Next Finnair Asian destinations?
Replies: 12
Views: 2316

Re: Next Finnair Asian destinations?

Kathmandu??

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by Melb94
Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:59 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Does anyone have the schedule to MH's flights to Zagreb? I am really interested and curious about this one! Me too. You'd be surprised who flew there. Even Qantas did at one point! It's off topic but you'd be surprised by some of the old routes. I think there was a lot of demand to the Adriatic are...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:32 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Does anyone have the schedule to MH's flights to Zagreb? I am really interested and curious about this one! Me too. You'd be surprised who flew there. Even Qantas did at one point! It's off topic but you'd be surprised by some of the old routes. I think there was a lot of demand to the Adriatic are...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:25 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Longest flight where same aircraft turns around in the same calendar day?
Replies: 6
Views: 2496

Re: Longest flight where same aircraft turns around in the same calendar day?

[quote="Melb94"]Currently Air China's flights to the South/Central America fits this bill CA-907 PEK 12.55am 6.55am MAD 8.45am 1.45pm GRU CA-908 GRU 6.05pm 8.40am+1 MAD 12.00pm 4.45am+2 PEK CA-879 PEK 12.40pm 1.20pm YUL 3.20pm 7.35pm HAV CA-880 HAV 9.50am 1.20pm YUL 3.20pm 5.00pm+1 PEK CA-...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:47 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Does anyone have the schedule to MH's flights to Zagreb? I am really interested and curious about this one!

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 4:38 pm
Forum: Travel, Polls & Preferences
Topic: Longest flight where same aircraft turns around in the same calendar day?
Replies: 6
Views: 2496

Re: Longest flight where same aircraft turns around in the same calendar day?

Currently Air China's flights to the South/Central America fits this bill CA-907 PEK 12.55am 6.55am MAD 8.45am 1.45pm GRU CA-908 GRU 6.05pm 8.40am+1 MAD 12.00pm 4.45am+2 PEK CA-879 PEK 12.40pm 1.20pm YUL 3.20pm 7.35pm HAV CA-880 HAV 9.50am 1.20pm YUL 3.20pm 5.00pm+1 PEK CA-885 PEK 9.20am 10.00am IAH...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:16 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Thanks, but MH201/202 always went through JNB as well, not just CPT. The double stop in South Africa was there to the very end, unless I am totally mistaken. Malaysia Airlines changes to South Africa/Argentina from Oct 2010 by JL As per 21JUN10 GDS timetable display, Malaysia Airlines is making ser...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:55 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

If you wouldn't mind, I would love that. Thank you! Here you go: These schedules were were grabbed from Flightstats in 2012 when they operated in during the Northern Summer of 2012 unless the destination was axed such as VIE, JNB (axed in Jan 2012), EWR-ARN, ZRH, FCO (axed in Jan 2012, EZE-CPT (axe...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:23 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

Do you, or anyone else, have a source for the departure/arrival times? I'd love to recreate this one in P3D. I have a few departure/arrival times for various MH destinations (LAX-NRT, VIE, JNB, FRA, AMS, EWR-ARN, IST, CDG, ZRH, FCO, EZE-CPT, DXB-KHI, MAN & CAI) that are no longer served. Would ...

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by Melb94
Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:22 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?
Replies: 70
Views: 12763

Re: Did Malaysia Airlines fly to Mexico, Argentina, Canada & USA in its heyday!?

I remember in the 1990's Malaysia Airlines flew to MEX & EZE in its heydays and routing was KUL-TPE-LAX-MEX and KUL-JNB-CPT-EZE. Why did MH start MEX & EZE, was this the era of shooting darts on a map!? Did they have 5th freedom traffic on LAX-MEX & JNB-CPT-EZE!? I also heard they flew ...

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by Melb94
Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:03 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2019
Replies: 478
Views: 73723

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - June 2019

QF63 SYD-JNB currently diverting to MEL.

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by Melb94
Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:14 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2018
Replies: 1177
Views: 331112

Re: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2018

RobK wrote:
The Uzbekistan Government 787 is now in a stall at PAE. Painted all white.


I wasn't aware the Uzbekistan Government was getting a 787?

Going by the 787 production list, I presume its LN764 UK-78704? I thought it was for Uzbekistan Airways

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by Melb94
Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:10 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: NW service on the Osaka-Sydney route
Replies: 19
Views: 5310

Re: NW service on the Osaka-Sydney route

timz wrote:
Melb94 wrote:
Does anyone have the schedules for NW flights to Sydney?

What do you want to know?


Their flight times just for curiosity sake!

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by Melb94
Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:32 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: NW service on the Osaka-Sydney route
Replies: 19
Views: 5310

Re: NW service on the Osaka-Sydney route

Does anyone have the schedules for NW flights to Sydney?

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by Melb94
Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:19 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2018
Replies: 641
Views: 72074

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - July 2018

QF29 wrote:
EK looks to be changing their flight times out of Melbourne, I'd expect an announcement very soon.


If they are changing their schedule out of Melbourne, what would they become?

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by Melb94
Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:16 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Austrian restructuring longhaul network, focus on US and China
Replies: 16
Views: 4271

Re: Austrian restructuring longhaul network, focus on US and China

Is it time for CX to consider flying HKG-VIE in the future?

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by Melb94
Fri May 18, 2018 3:24 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Which airlines are on the waiting list to operate into Heathrow?
Replies: 40
Views: 9261

Re: Which airlines are on the waiting list to operate into Heathrow?

Any chance of Air Zimbabwe returning to the London market with the rumored 777 aircraft?

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by Melb94
Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:04 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Why don't more western airlines fly to CAN?
Replies: 14
Views: 2184

Re: Why don't more western airlines fly to CAN?

Years ago there were even flights from Air Zimbabwe flying HRE-SIN-CAN!

Its still amazing that amount of African airlines that fly into Guangzhou!

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by Melb94
Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:56 pm
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread 2018
Replies: 281
Views: 81289

Re: Boeing 777 Production/Delivery Thread 2018

Does anybody know the next delivery for All Nippon Airways final 6 77W's on order? Deliveries are supposed to be completed by 2019. Their last 77W delivery JA792A occurred in May 2015.

Any help will be appreciated.

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by Melb94
Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:14 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Updated: Ethiopian Airlines adds Chicago
Replies: 82
Views: 12281

Re: Ethiopian Airlines comparing/deciding between Houston and Chicago

berari wrote:
Ethiopian has filed schedules for its flights out of Abidjan: its to Newark! All I see is frequency at 3x per week so far.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk


Does anyone know the schedule and start date for Abidjan-Newark service?

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by Melb94
Sun Jan 07, 2018 8:53 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Somon Air, Tadjikistan, signed MOU with Boeing for single 787
Replies: 27
Views: 6395

Re: Somon Air, Tadjikistan, signed MOU with Boeing for single 787

While reading this forum, I remembered there's a 787 in the desert N887BA l/n 315 that was never taken up by Privatair.
Could this the answer for Somon Air?

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by Melb94
Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:39 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2018
Replies: 1177
Views: 331112

Re: 787 Production/Delivery Thread 2018

qf789 wrote:
Melb94 wrote:
Does anyone one the configuration of ET's two 789: ET-AUP & ET-AUO?


315 seats, 30 business and 285 economy


Thanks

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by Melb94
Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:48 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: 787 Production/Delivery Thread - 2018
Replies: 1177
Views: 331112

Re: 787 Production/Delivery Thread 2018

Does anyone one the configuration of ET's two 789: ET-AUP & ET-AUO?

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by Melb94
Fri Dec 29, 2017 2:03 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Whats IAH's future plan for UA 787?
Replies: 24
Views: 4288

Re: Whats IAH's future plan for UA 787?

I presume they are going to rotate the 787 aircraft through SYD coming in from either LAX or SFO?

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by Melb94
Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:31 am
Forum: Civil Aviation
Topic: Alitalia to JNB & NBO from 2018
Replies: 20
Views: 4075

Alitalia to JNB & NBO from 2018

Whilst browsing through Fiumicino Airport on Wikipedia (I know not the best site for reliable information), I saw that Alitalia will be starting: Johannesburg from April 8, 2018 Nairobi from March 28, 2018 Upon further investigating and dummy bookings on Alitalia's website, this rumor appears to be ...

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