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Stefan Perkas
5th July 2009, 10:44 PM
Evening all,

Tomorrow's EK412 will be operated by an A340-300 instead on the usual A380.
Radi K
5th July 2009, 11:03 PM
A6-EDC

100% correct indeed!
Tim Bowrey
6th July 2009, 05:24 PM
I dont get this. Radi says thats Stefan was 100% correct by saying todays was an A343 yet he also says it was flown by A6-EDC which is an A380?:confused:
Nigel C
6th July 2009, 07:00 PM
Todays Emirates flights were the A380 and B777
Steve S... 2
6th July 2009, 11:02 PM
I don't understand this post either...
Adam.S
7th July 2009, 12:15 AM
To translate:

A6-EDC worked in and out of Sydney on Monday (6/7/09) on EK412/13.

Tuesday's (7/7/09) EK412/13 flights will be worked by an A340.
David C
7th July 2009, 07:52 AM
To translate:



Tuesday's (7/7/09) EK412/13 flights will be worked by an A340.

PP is showing this mornings EK412 as EDB a A388 , so wrong again ... I will confirm when I see the aircraft overhead and inbound .

Yes here it is , inbound around 5 mins ago .. A6-EDB

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/Ozipilot/IMG_0919.jpg

Dave C
Tim Bowrey
7th July 2009, 09:04 AM
Beautiful day whereever you took that from!
Nigel C
7th July 2009, 09:30 AM
From the airport I could see there was a good break in the cloud when it made its turn from an easterly heading onto a northerly heading when it was ~20-30 miles out.
Adam.S
7th July 2009, 10:33 AM
PP is showing this mornings EK412 as EDB a A388 ,
here it is , inbound around 5 mins ago .. A6-EDB

Dave C

Great photo Dave. Thanks for posting.

Can I ask (roughly) where you took this photo from and what the flight level of this a/c would have been at the time?
Radi K
7th July 2009, 11:00 AM
FlightPlan was filed as A343 not as A388, thus the confusion perhaps. I’m not 100% on rego’s but I just posted what was on the real plan.
David C
7th July 2009, 11:09 AM
Great photo Dave. Thanks for posting.

Can I ask (roughly) where you took this photo from and what the flight level of this a/c would have been at the time?

I am near to Picton , about 33DME SW of SYD . It was and still is relatively a cloud free sky and the A380 was passing FL150 on descent on the RIVET STAR .

Dave C
Erik H. Bakke
7th July 2009, 11:17 AM
Does the A343 have the range to do non-stop DXB-SYD both ways, if one had to be scheduled for operational reasons?

I seem to remember that the A345, when delivered to EK, was touted as making it possible to open a non-stop Sydney service, and I thought they already had the A343s by then.
David C
7th July 2009, 12:08 PM
The A343X has a max payload range of 7400NM . The great circle route from SYD-DXB is 7481NM . Bearing this in mind , there would probably be a payload restriction in order to operate between SYD and DXB non stop and remain legal .

Dave C
Graeme M
7th July 2009, 05:00 PM
I had the fortune to travel on this aircraft in Business class AKL- SYD

Graeme