I thought the weather was always perfect in Qld.

Was UYB previously N912QQ, Greg?

Yep

UYY planned to operate it's first test flight this week

QQ9100, BNE/BNE, 8/4/21, 10.17/10.29 - 12 minutes, up - a circle around Moreton Bay - down

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Australia's Alliance Air launches E190 commercial ops
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07.04.2021 - 06:37 UTC

Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane Int'l) on April 10 launches commercial service with its recently acquired ERJ 190-100AR fleet based out of Adelaide and Darwin.

In an Australian Stock Exchange filing, the regional carrier, previously an all Fokker Aircraft operator, announced it had received regulatory approval and a revised Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) from the country’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) on March 31 to commence commercial operations with its E190 fleet. This followed “an intense six-month programme of aircraft and spare parts acquisition, maintenance, training, and regulatory and compliance checks,” it said.

Alliance Air Chief Executive Officer Lee Schofield confirmed the operating base for these aircraft would be Adelaide and Darwin. Three aircraft would be wet-leased to Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) from May 25, 2021, on a previously-announced three-year wet-lease contract. These aircraft will also be based in Adelaide and Darwin.

Alliance has firm purchase commitments for the delivery of thirty E190s to be used to expand the airline’s operations. So far, 18 aircraft have been paid for and delivered to Alliance. The balance of 12 aircraft would be delivered progressively through to November 2021. Fourteen of the E190s have been acquired from Azorra Aviation and sixteen from Jetran, both US-based lessors, the airline revealed previously.

The status of those delivered are as follows: Five have been delivered to Australia; three are receiving base maintenance overseas; and 10 are in storage pending base maintenance.

The company’s full flight simulator is scheduled to be available for training in early May with pilots currently being trained with Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) in Helsinki.

The carrier said its fleet of twenty-seven Fokker 100s, five Fokker 50s, and fourteen Fokker 70s is used across fly-in- fly-out (FIFO), charter, and wet-lease operations.
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Base Brisbane Int'l
Aircraft 51
Destinations 20
Routes 22
Daily Flights 7
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HP1559CMP was test flown at PTY on 6/4.

Probably the next to ferry to SJO.

E190's planned to operate this weekend and next week for Airnorth out of Wellcamp to Melbourne and Cairns as well as Gold Coast on Wednesday

More use for E-Jets

Final approval for Virgin–Alliance collaboration on 41 routes

The ACCC has granted final permission for Virgin and Alliance to collaborate on 41 regional routes until 31 March 2023.

Australia’s competition commission had earlier granted interim authorisation in November despite fierce opposition from Rex.

The deal will allow Virgin to share information on cost, capacity, and flight schedules with Alliance in order to help serve smaller towns with its post-administration, stripped-back fleet, arguing that ceding market share to Qantas could result in more expensive fares for passengers.

The 41 routes included services to regional towns from Brisbane, Alice Springs, Perth and Cairns. The full list is at the bottom of this article.

In its initial ruling published in November, the ACCC said, “The co-operation will allow Virgin Australia and Alliance Airlines to share information, and to agree on service capacity, schedules and potentially revenue sharing on the routes on which they operate, including for new routes not currently serviced by either airline.

“The co-operation will mean that Virgin Australia and Alliance Airlines will not compete with each other on the routes covered by the agreement.

“Our preliminary view is that any public detriment resulting from reduced competition between Alliance Airlines and Virgin Australia is likely to be limited, given Alliance Airlines’ limited number of scheduled regular passenger services. We will consider this issue further in the course of our review of the substantive application.

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https://australianaviation.com.au/20...n-on-41-routes

Got to love it, Qantas owns a portion of Alliance, so essentially Virgin is paying Qantas a small fortune!

Nothing unexpected there. Cheaper for VA than running VARA mk1

After UYZ did 5 days work for Air North, last Saturday to Wednesday, UYW started flying today BNE/WTB/MEL/WTB/CNS is the schedule. UYW started yesterday for Alliance with a return service BNE/ROK/BNE.
UYY is scheduled to do a BNE/BNE flight, 15 mins today as well. no flights yet by UYO and UYB.
HP1559CMP ferried PTY/SJO 14April Local time

UYY planned a Wellcamp return today being it's first operational use

Does anyone know why UYW is still in MEL after a flight from WTB last Thursday morning.

the UYY is TL flight numbers

Embraer 190 AR 190.00056 VH- Alliance Airlines N-regd 19apr21 at SJO prior delivery ex N956QQ

Finally:):)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...n/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...in/dateposted/

UYB completed it's first test flight today

May explain the training flights

Additional Qantas' routes to be operated by Alliance Airlines Embraer E190 aircraft from late-June 2021:

* Adelaide – Gold Coast eff 25JUN21 7 weekly (4 weekly 20JUL21 – 20SEP21, 12OCT21 – 13DEC21)
* Darwin – Canberra eff 21JUN21 10 weekly

N938QQ ex HP-1558CMP completed a 43 min test flight on 4 May SJO/SJO as SX2126. It has been in SJO since 30 December 2020.

Also VH-UYB completed a second test flight of 12 mins this morning over Moreton Bay as usual

VH-UYZ did BNE/ADL as QQ9826 on Tuesday and is still there.

UYZ is in ADL for ground crew training

N938QQ on the way on Thu 6/5/21 as SXI 2126, SJO 12.46 pm CST to SDM 5.18 pm PDT. I have no idea of its rego yet but guessing it might be VH-UYE??

my guess that it could be E probably will be F

Embraer 190 AR 190.00126 HP-1565CMP Copa Airlines ferried 05may21 PTY-SJO, reg N926QQ res, for Alliance Airlines

Also Alliance is retiring their F50 fleet and replacing them with F70/100's.

Australian Executive traveller states some in Qantaslink livery

QantasLink will debut non-stop flights between Canberra and Darwin next month, along with a new Adelaide-Gold Coast service.

Using Embraer E190 jets leased from Alliance Airlines, flights between Darwin and the national capital are the first to kick off, taking wing from June 21.

That's followed shortly after with the new Adelaide-Gold Coast route, running four times a week from June 25.

Those E190s will be painted in QantasLink colours and offer 10 seats in business class and 84 in economy – but without WiFi or video streaming, passengers will want to bring their own device pre-loaded with entertainment.

Qantas had originally committed to leasing three E190s from Alliance, with this move pushing that to eight: and with options for six more.

N938QQ should arrive in Brissie at around 18:00 tonight

Hey Greg It arrived Saturday night Dennis

thks, Dennis

Was it in Qlink livery ?

Negative Greg.

thanks, Lloyd.

I thought that the Ex-Copa birds may be used for QLink based on their previous config.

From seatGuru

Copa 10 & 84
AA 11 & 88

For those playing at home

Of the 14 x ex-Copa birds

BNE 5x(VH)
BNE 1x(N)
PTY 2x(57,64)
CJO 6X(56,59,60,61,62,65)

Note: digits are the last two digits of the HP15xxCMP reg

QF has said the Ejets they are using are 2 class (94 seat so possibly 8J/86Y)

I think the Copa birds are 10/84

just checked they are

UYB looks to have entered service this morning as TL992 BNE-TWB. After that TL130 TWB-MEL.

Embraer 190 AR 190.00112 N951UW Tvpx Aircraft Solutions ferried 10may21 ROW-SJO, for Alliance Airlines ex PT-SQG

First of the ex-AA birds

Thanks Greg. Interesting with 2 of the Copa machines still in Panama?? Do you have a rego for N938QQ yet, I am guessing it will be UYF

N938QQ hasn't been added to reg as of last Friday, so you will have to wait another week.

The ex. AA birds maybe to used for QLink so they may of been pushed up the queue for maint and repaint. Also I expect that the AA birds will be registered in the VH-XV block as there was a large number of movements out of that block earlier in the year.

First time i have photographed VH-UYY.:)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/794876...in/dateposted/

Still chasing UYO which has been moved from the old runway to the Alliance Hangar.

UYO completed it first flight today operating at BNE-BNE test flight