V Australia takes delivery of a lovely new 777-300 VH-VPF

[Matt_L]

V Australia just took delivery of another 773 VPF at Paine Field Seattle.

Repositioning flight to Victorville today and then aircraft will be entered into service from LAX very shortly- approximately 9th October but dont quote me:)

[andrew evans]

I think i have pic of that at KPAE when i was there.Keep an eye on my trip report if you want to see it.USA Trip report.

[Dan Hammond]

Thanks for the heads up Matt, looking forward to seeing another VAU bird in service.

[David C]

Here she is ...

http://paineairport.com/kpae2372.htm

Dave C

[lloyd fox]

Matt thanks for that,

V Australia are doing extra flights out of BNE next week or 2.They are operating 6 flights between 3oct and 9 oct which means the new aircraft should be here this Saturday .????:confused:

Cheers Lloyd

[Matt_L]

Sounds about right Lloyd,

VPF's ETD at LAX is 1900 local time on the 9th after which it will commence revenue service.

[Jim W]

Matt thanks for that,

V Australia are doing extra flights out of BNE next week or 2.They are operating 6 flights between 3oct and 9 oct which means the new aircraft should be here this Saturday .????:confused:

Cheers Lloyd

VPF will be in VCV for about another week. It will then swap over with VOZ which will go to VCV for some mods.

[Mick F]

And guess who just happens to be going past Victorville today, :-)

[Adam G]

VPF is sch to operate VA2 LAX/SYD on the 9th as it's first revenue service so if you want a photo it should be in SYD on the 11th.

[Jim W]

VPF will be in VCV for about another week. It will then swap over with VOZ which will go to VCV for some mods.

Looks like it will swap over with VPE now, not VOZ.

[phil.l]

Just had a message that VH-VPF is inbound as VAU2.(cheers Merv)

[Grahame Hutchison]

VH-VPF VA0002 11/10/2009 07:23 V Australia B777-3ZG(ER) Los Angeles-Sydney

[Marcin S]

Ah, thought I'd check the forum after flying in from LAX on VA2 this morning - they told us it was going to be delayed for 10 minutes at the gate before we could deplane because "this is the first time the aircraft is landing in Australia " and something about an extra customs check.

So looks like I was on the maiden VH-VPF passenger flight! Woo!

Downside was that most of the headsets were broken (snapped) for some reason (I carry my own anyway), and they had no Customs cards (just meant had to fill it in on arrival instead).

Normal V Australia flight apart from that :)

[Grahame Hutchison]

Straight back to work now ...

VH-VPF VA0001 11/10/2009 21:13 V Australia B777-3ZG(ER) Sydney-Los Angeles

[Jim W]

Ah, thought I'd check the forum after flying in from LAX on VA2 this morning - they told us it was going to be delayed for 10 minutes at the gate before we could deplane because "this is the first time the aircraft is landing in Australia " and something about an extra customs check.

So looks like I was on the maiden VH-VPF passenger flight! Woo!

Downside was that most of the headsets were broken (snapped) for some reason (I carry my own anyway), and they had no Customs cards (just meant had to fill it in on arrival instead).

Normal V Australia flight apart from that :)

Probably to do with having to carry out disinsectation procedures?