United to Nadi?

[Benny Zheng]

Anyone knows why is United going to Nadi today (30/3)?

UAL9892 B744 15:18 to NFFN

And also

ANZ105 B744 17:16 from NZAA

[Peter Agatsiotis]

Air Pacific DQ-FJL in maintenance so United 744's used on some days.

[Benny Zheng]

Ahh thanks !

[Tim Bowrey]

Where do they get their mantainance done and when will FJL be back? FJK was gone for quite a while so I would assume it will too. Her paint is looking really bad so I hope they repaint the scheme and not the plane:(

[J Brown]

Air Pacific 744 heavy maintenance is done at Changi with SIA Engineering Company (both 744's are leased from SIA). DQ-FJL arrived SIN on 11th Feb

[Jeff N]

You would imagine that SIA would provide the replacement aircraft, considering they are the supplier of the leased planes?!

[Mike W]

You would imagine that SIA would provide the replacement aircraft, considering they are the supplier of the leased planes?!

Assuming they had a spare available...

[Peter Agatsiotis]

Yes, their fleet of 744's is dwindling. 9V-SPL to Cathay as B-HKX in Jan this year.

[J Brown]

DQ-FJL went up on a test flight out of Changi yesterday in standard FJ scheme!

[Tim Bowrey]

Nooooooo!!!

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6524265&nseq=4

Why would they? Sure its looking old but surely they could repaint like Qantas did the "Wunala Dreaming" scheme.

[Benny Zheng]

Here's a photo of it. With permission from my friend Vincent in Singapore.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b36/regitcat/DQ-FJLpn-05-0409.jpg

[Sarah C]

Boo.........surely the island on the sky doesn't add that much weight? How boring to repaint it in the normal livery. Does this mean they are keeping both 747's or are they going to return to SQ in the future? On the plus side, it looks very clean!

[Mike W]

Perhaps they could have somehow replicated the island scheme on the tail in lieu of those old fashioned "paint shop" stripes? :cool:

[Sarah C]

DQ-FJL has just arrived on 16R.......