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Old 22nd August 2008, 05:33 PM
Joseph Saragozza. Joseph Saragozza. is offline
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Default QANTAS and Olympic Athletes

our athletes are due to come home on tuesday morining. dose anybody know what time they arrive at sydney and what aircraft they will be using?
in 2004 they used 2 747 one of them was Wunala Dreaming.
regos would be helpful.

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Old 22nd August 2008, 05:50 PM
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ok im gonna have a shot in the dark here and say they will use wunala (because it is wunala) and VH-OEB as it is in the new livery, these are just guesses mind you but seem not too unrealistic....
Then again they may just use any plane that 1. isnt grounded for maintenance checks, 2 stuck in perth waiting on a new engine, 3. stuck in perth ****ing water out of the tanks, 4. overseas getting stapled back together or 5 stuck overseas with a massive hole in the side.
At this rate they might be sending the hawdon to pick them up, LOL.
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Old 22nd August 2008, 06:21 PM
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It will be an A330 and a 744.

Regos to come.
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Old 23rd August 2008, 12:29 PM
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yes i too was hoping for WUNALA and VH-OEB.

how did you find out which aircraft i was gonna be josh?
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Old 23rd August 2008, 01:34 PM
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Hi - most likely it won't be OEJ. At the moment it looks like being a RR powered 744 and the newest a333.
As mentioned before it is going to be a 744 and a333 charter on top of the normal PEK-SYD serviced by the Airbus.

The A333 will be specially flown in from HKG after flying SYD-HKG (so it will do a HKG-PEK sector), while the 744 will be specially flown in from SYD. These two flights will have the special 4 digit flight number QF60xx.

The A333 will depart Beijing for Sydney some 40 minutes earlier than the 744. Not exactly sure if they will arrive at Sydney one after the other but 40 minutes is just about the difference when it comes to the 744 and the A333's slower cruise speed.

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Old 23rd August 2008, 01:39 PM
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I work in the industry.
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Old 25th August 2008, 07:34 AM
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I can say it's not VH-OEB doing the Beijing run. It's heading back to Sydney as QF2 at present.

VH-OJH is operating QF6015 Sydney - Beijing.

VH-QPD I would assume going off what has been said (aircraft in Hong Kong flown up to Beijing) is doing the other charter.

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Old 25th August 2008, 08:32 AM
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Heard on Seven News last night there would be 2 charters, with medal winners to be seated in business class.
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Old 25th August 2008, 09:40 AM
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Heard on Seven News last night there would be 2 charters, with medal winners to be seated in business class.
LOL! If thats for real, what an absolute disgrace!
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Old 25th August 2008, 10:07 AM
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LOL! If thats for real, what an absolute disgrace!
Why? What's wrong with that? Someone has to sit in the J seats, and it may as well be the medal winners.
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