Air Pacific

[Stefan Perkas]

Afternon all,

This afternoons FJ 910-911 flight which is delayed and due to arrive at 2300 will be operated by a 747-300. I prsume it is a QF machine.

[Tim Bowrey]

VH-EBY apparently

[Blake Riley]

was actually EBV the Pacific is late due to engineering issues was a sign saying about it at check in

[Grahame Hutchison]

VH-EBV QF0910 16/11/2008 13:45 Qantas B747-338 Sydney-Nandi

[Tim Bowrey]

was actually EBV the Pacific is late due to engineering issues was a sign saying about it at check in
I have a bad memory:P

[Tony G]

VH-EBY apparently

EBY was around the jet base today

[Grahame Hutchison]

Looks like EBV is doing the return trip also.

VH-EBV QF0911 16/11/2008 22:14 Qantas B747-338 - Sydney-Nandi

[Anthony J]

Sydney-Nandi

Nadi no?

[Nigel C]

Correct AJ.:D

It is pronounced 'Nandi'.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

The delayed FJ911 flight from this afternoon will be operated by A B763. Will it be a the Air Pacific B763 DQ-FJC which a rare site in Sydney or will it be operated by a QF B763.

[Tim Bowrey]

UA has a 744(N121UA) parked at the stand near General Holmes drive too. UA840 to LAX delayed from 3:15pm and will depart tomorrow at 2pm.

[Nigel C]

Correction...the UA aircraft at Bay 75 is N122UA.

[Sarah C]

Stefan,

These days DQ-FJC operates MEL/NAN/MEL but also will do SYD occasionally. Yesterday it was operated by one of the 738's.

On ACARS, there was a transmission for QF0910 VH-OGM but didn't have a route. QF doesn't have a flight number for 910 (I think PER/KTA is QF1910) and the ACARS transmission used this flight number for those occasions when VH-OGB and the -300's did the service last year.

So in answer to your question, I don't know but I would think OGM might have operated the service.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Thanks for the prompt Sarah, I saw QF0910 on ACARS yesterday and looked it up in the QF timetable, but nothing there (thought it must have been a corrupt transmission).

After reading your comments this morning I checked the ACARS log and found ...

ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: .VH-OGM
Message label: H1 Block id: Msg. no: D013
Flight id: QF0910
Message content:-
#1CBCLB
0204 14FEB09 SYD NAN P060 M135 20112 613 157612 05
L 1031 1031 812 5402 1103 57 115 163 09H 2000
R 1031 1049 821 5450 1104 69 122 162 07F 200
1104 1 1036
1104
-------------------------------------[14/02/2009 13:04]

so this was the replacement aircraft.

[Sarah C]

Thanks for the confirmation Grahame. The ACARS is usually pretty spot on but the missing information had me intrigued. I wouldn't have paid too much attention if Stefan didn't bring up the delay.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Today the 911 is operated by ...

DQ-FJK SQI911 15/02/2009 13:09 Air Pacific B747-412 FJ911 Nadi-Sydney
DQ-FJK SQI910 15/02/2009 15:49 Air Pacific B747-412 FJ910 Sydney-Nadi

Even picked up the Melbourne-Nanndi service today ...

DQ-FJG FJ0931 15/02/2009 20:51 Air Pacific B737-8X2 Melbourne-Nadi

[Stefan Perkas]

Afternoon all,

Apparantly DQ-FJL has gone into maintainance and like before Air pacific will be leasing UA 744's. Yesterday N173UA operated the NAN-AKL-NAN flight.