Heads up Mon 9th Nov 2 Delta arr

[Gerald A]

Can anyone please confirm this info, or is this normal Monday arrivals for Delta

The info came from from both Flight Stats and Sydney Airport web sites.

DL17 arr Sch 8:40am Act 8:10am
DL8815 arr Sch 6:05am Act 9:40am 215mins

Flight info http://www.flightstats.com/go/Flight...pe=1&x=27&y=10

Flight info http://www.sydneyairport.com.au/SACL...9&results=1000

[Anthony T]

8815 flies to SYD for fumigation, used to be done in the UK, but now DL sends the plane to Australia.

Apparently the insecticide the USA says has to be used is banned in the USA

[Gerard M]

Gerald, on one site N703DN has been logged as DL8815 so more than likely it will be that aircraft.

[Mark Grima]

Sorry Anthony, can I just confirm I understand you correctly. Delta have to fly aircraft all the way from the USA just to by sprayed for bugs?

Surely there is a different type of checimcal that can be used in the USA. this seems to be a rather large waste of money...not to mention the greenhouse gases.

Cheers

M

[Grahame Hutchison]

A little bit of "Leap Frog" been going on at Delta over the past couple of days, is there a double departure to get things back in order ?

N704DK DL0017 09/11/2009 07:36 Delta Airlines B777-232LR Los Angeles-Sydney
N703DN DL8815 09/11/2009 08:46 Delta Airlines B777-232LR
N704DK DL0016 09/11/2009 11:34 Delta Airlines B777-232LR Sydney-Los Angeles

N701DN DL0017 10/11/2009 08:02 Delta Airlines B777-232LR Los Angeles-Sydney
N703DN DL0016 10/11/2009 16:13 Delta Airlines B777-232LR Sydney-Los Angeles

N704DK DL0017 11/11/2009 07:43 Delta Airlines B777-232LR Los Angeles-Sydney

1255 today on PP saw N701DN depart as DL16.

[Sarah C]

Departing DL8814 on Thursday at 3:10pm.

[Anthony T]

Originally Posted by Mark Grima

Sorry Anthony, can I just confirm I understand you correctly. Delta have to fly aircraft all the way from the USA just to by sprayed for bugs?

Yep that's right some aircraft also go to Asia (Japan?), but the 772's come downunder.

[Chris Griffiths]

Originally Posted by Mark Grima

Surely there is a different type of checimcal that can be used in the USA.

My understanding is not so much the chemicals but the locations certified by the Australian authorities (AQIS I guess) to apply them and there are none in the USA.
I know Delta were flying aircraft to LHR for treatment then they had planned to periodically slip a departure from SYD to enable it to be done here, guess there was a scheduling issue that caused this flight.

Cheers

Chris

[Gerard M]

Presumably another Delta 777 for spraying due in tomorrow morning DL9864 then due out on Thursday morning.

[Sarah C]

Correct - the aircraft has just been towed to the GA area.