Every good parade finishes with an elephant

[Chairman]

6 September 2009
The parade of international arrivals, complete, from daylight until the elephant.

07:24 QF46 from Los Angeles



07:47 KE129 from Seoul



08:24 NZ98 from Osaka



08:58 NZ38 from London, via Hong Kong



09:11 BI77 from Brunei



10:15 SQ285 from Singapore



10:38 TN101 from Papeete



10:43 MH131 from Kuala Lumpur



11:08 TG989 from Bangkok



11:10 NZ90 from Tokyo



11:20 QF141 from Sydney



11:39 FJ441 from Nadi



11:43 QF35 from Melbourne



11:58 SB410 from Noumea



12:12 CX107 from Hong Kong



12:38 EK406 from Melbourne



12:46 EK412 from Sydney



12:46 EK412 from Sydney



12:46 EK412 from Sydney



12:46 EK412 from Sydney



12:46 EK412 from Sydney



12:52 EK412 from Sydney



12:53 EK412 from Sydney

[BigBird]

Nice photos. Saw EK412 turning on to base leg this arvo.

[AlisterC]

Nice shots. Good to see all the internationals

[shotgun]

Cool pictures

[ardypilot]

Saw that Tahiti Nui A340 go over on the way down to Meremere- thought you'd be there photographing the cars today. There were lot of people in the marshals uniform from Taupo I think.

[Chairman]

One of the RATS blueshirts works on the grid at Meremere drag strip (but those blue shirts are pretty generic). I think they would have liked me at Pukekohe to help today but I'm still getting over a nasty nerve infection and fancied a day sitting in the car taking pictures of planes more than a day on the start line :-)

Need a couple of people to work on the start line one or both days at Pukekohe next weekend, what you up to then ?

Gary

[ardypilot]

QUOTE (Chairman @ Sep 6 2009, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Need a couple of people to work on the start line one or both days at Pukekohe next weekend, what you up to then ?

Being hungover, sorry.

[Kelburn]

Geez. I get bored of NZWN sometimes. You get close to the aircraft but there's only x number of a/c types that are utilised. I wish Wellington had more traffic like Auckland! Great photos.

[Chairman]

It's actually almost as bad up here. The domestic traffic at NZAA (i.e. most of the traffic at NZAA) is almost entirely B1900 / -Q300 / A320 / 737, and the international almost all 767 / 777 / A340. There are a couple of 747 trips but they seem to be almost as rare now as the A380.

[d3fai13r]

QUOTE (Chairman @ Sep 7 2009, 11:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There are a couple of 747 trips but they seem to be almost as rare now as the A380.

summer navigation(NZ winter, april-septmber/october) its 2 morning arrivals of NZ747 from USA, than QF25/26(BNE-AKL-LAX) now daytime+NZ747 departures to AUS , on saturdays FJ747, than depends on the day of the week 1-2 late afternoon arrivals NZ747 from Australia and evening departures to USA. Winter navigation(NZ summer) more 747 transtasman+CX747+KE747. And also 2 cargo 747(Atlas+SQ) coming here. Actually not a lot of jumbos, but if you know the schedule, usually its around 5 jumbo arr/dep.

[benwynn]

QF25/26 is from MEL-AKL-LAX

[Bagnew]

Every day at school, I look out the window, and see the planes on approach to NZAA, including the A380. Watching the planes go past has the ability to lighten even the most boring lesson

[d3fai13r]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Sep 7 2009, 05:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QF25/26 is from MEL-AKL-LAX

yepp, my mistake, however, if im not wrong, for a short period of time, 747 for AKL-LAX leg was coming from BNE, but now they turnaround aircrafts in LAX, and there is no transtasman QF747, QF25/6 MEL-AKL-MEL is serving with jetconnect 737 classic(first NG will go on AKL-SYD route, one of them should come to NZ soon)

[benwynn]

Yeah, a long long time ago it was BNE-AKL-LAX, but thats years ago now.

Im not sure of the exact schedule, but yes, they're chopping and changing between the A330 and the 744 on the MEL-AKL leg, not sure of the exact days/seasons etc, but some days its the A330, some days its the 744.

[d3fai13r]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Sep 7 2009, 09:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, a long long time ago it was BNE-AKL-LAX, but thats years ago now.
Im not sure of the exact schedule, but yes, they're chopping and changing between the A330 and the 744 on the MEL-AKL leg, not sure of the exact days/seasons etc, but some days its the A330, some days its the 744.

no no no, im talking about recent times, when timetable for AKL-LAX(now its departing few hours earlier). AKL-LAX served only 744(A330 have been on that route only when 743 was in process of retiring). There is no 744 or A330 on MEL leg(its operated on 737 only), the only QF A330 now is just flights from SYD, instead of 767, but its quite rare