Atlas Freighter at Gate 35?

[Sarah C]

This might be a stupid question but I'll ask anyway. There is an Atlas Freighter (at Gate 35 I believe), which is one of the passenger gates. Any idea why this would be the case? I have never seen it before so it is interesting.

[Brian Wilkes]

Crew change over + Fuel, no freight?

[Bernie P]

Crew change over + Fuel, no freight?

Would make for a fast boarding process... :D :D :D

[Paul Hunter]

I'm not at work at the moment (I was this morning). It may be the Atlas 747 is actually on Bay 37.

Bay's 36 and 37 currently have no airbridges but as of this morning we can use them as stand-off bays till the aircrafts regular bay becomes available.

Regards.

[Sarah C]

I'm not at work at the moment (I was this morning). It may be the Atlas 747 is actually on Bay 37.

Bay's 36 and 37 currently have no airbridges but as of this morning we can use them as stand-off bays till the aircrafts regular bay becomes available.

Regards.

Thanks Paul - I think you are right, one gate over. It would make sense as a FedEx MD11 has been over in the GA area all today, so the freight apron must be pretty busy.

[Grahame Hutchison]

The arrival details from www.16Right.com (http://www.16Right.com) ACARS .....

N409MC 5Y7554 30/12/2008 10:04 Atlas Air B747-47UF(SCD) Honolulu-Sydney
-> Operating QF7554
-> No departure seen on ACARS by1940

[Grahame Hutchison]

And out this morning ....

N409MC 5Y7581 31/12/2008 06:19 Atlas Air B747-47UF(SCD) Sydney-Bangkok
-> Operating QF7581
ACARS mode: S Aircraft reg: .N409MC
Message label: H1 Block id: 0 Msg. no: D00A
Flight id: 5Y7581
Message content:-
#DFBCET.409MCQFA758YSSYVTBS301208191949
6880IC1260BKA01-01
1633 1285.0 25.8 21.80.262167250091
OFFCLSOFFOFFOPNOPN
ON-OFFON-
YESYESYES
707000707000704767704862
110.3110.3110.3110.3
110.4110.4110.4110.
-------------------------------------[31/12/2008 06:19]

[Nigel C]

Thanks Paul - I think you are right, one gate over. It would make sense as a FedEx MD11 has been over in the GA area all today, so the freight apron must be pretty busy.

The whole airport has been busy and spare aircraft bays are hard to come by. The apron coordinators have their work cut out for them at the moment.

[Matt R]

I saw three Atlas 747s when we arrived back from AKL on Tuesday night, one was at a passenger gate. My wife's only comment was "they need a new paint job" :)

For our flight out of Sydney on the 21st, we had to ride a bus out to the LAN A340 parked over by the cargo area.. At least it gave me a good view of some of the planes.

[Sarah C]

Thanks for the info Nigel. Matt, if you find an Atlas Air that doesn't need a new paint job it is an achievement :p

[Dan Collins]

There were three Atlas Air B744's at Sydney today also. Two at the cargo terminal and one in a layover bay near the Jetbase/Domestic terminal.

They must've reshuffled alot of the planes because the two BA jets were near the M5 motorway, didn't see where they parked the Etihad, Virgin or United.

Dan

[Nigel C]

Virgin parked on its usual bay 71.

There was an Etihad flight that didn't go out last night and it was initially on the Northern Pond apron before being moved to Hangar 96 for what appeared to be undercarriage raising/lowering tests.
The other one moved from Bay 9 to Bay 24 during the day.

I think United ended up on the southern Stand-off apron(?) alongside the SQ A380.

The 3 Atlas aircraft were N409MC N412MC and N492MC IIRC.

[Dan Collins]

Thanks for the info Nigel! I got to the beach around 2 so I think a lot of the aircraft in question may have gone to their gates already or I just hadn't noticed them :)

Dan

[Jack B]

Virgin parked on its usual bay 71.

There was an Etihad flight that didn't go out last night and it was initially on the Northern Pond apron before being moved to Hangar 96 for what appeared to be undercarriage raising/lowering tests.
The other one moved from Bay 9 to Bay 24 during the day.

I think United ended up on the southern Stand-off apron(?) alongside the SQ A380.

The 3 Atlas aircraft were N409MC N412MC and N492MC IIRC.

Interesting...

anyone know what happened with this Etihad flight?