Saturday 7 July 2018

Brisbane gets brand new Qantas 787-9

In September last year Qantas took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9, VH-ZNA (39038) since then they have taken delivery of 4 more aircraft. The Qantas 787's are only being used on a Melbourne - Los Angeles - Melbourne - Perth - London - Perth - Melbourne rotation and despite my frequent  trips to Melbourne I have only ever seen one before today.
Their fifth 787, VH-ZNE (CN 63391), arrived in Melbourne on the 1st July and after being on the ground in Melbourne for the last week it went into service this morning. ZNE's first revenue flight was QF 604, Melbourne - Brisbane. Its push back time was 7.10am but unfortunately it departed 20 minutes late and got airborne from runway 27 at 7.34am. It made up some time on the way us as it landed in Brisbane on runway 01 right on time at 9.20am.

QANTAS B787-9 VH-ZNE (CN 63391)


















ZNE had a departure time of 11am so it was on the ground for 1 hour 40 when it departed back for Melbourne getting airborne at 11.10am. It is due to come back to Brisbane this afternoon arriving here at 6.20pm.


















The 787's seem to be put on the Melbourne - Brisbane rotation for now as I am booked to come home from Melbourne this coming Thursday and it is a 787... really looking forward to this.

When I got out to the airport I noticed all the arriving aircraft had con trails coming from the wing flaps.
Below are some other photos I took while I was out there and I had three firsts today, first time seeing the Qantas 787 in Brisbane, first time seeing the Philippine A321Neo and the first time seeing the China Airlines A350 special livery.

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VXC (CN 30897)


ALLIANCE FOKKER F28 MK 100 VH-UQA (CN 11499)


QANTAS B737-838 VH-VYC (CN 33991)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-YIL (CN 38713)

CHINA SOUTHERN A330-343 B-1063 (CN 1852)


PHILIPPINE A320-271Neo RP-C9932 (CN 8150)



QANTASLINK B717-2BL VYQW (CN 55194)

E V A AIR A330-203 16311 (CN 0693)


SINGAPORE A350-941 9V-SMB (CN 030)


AIR CANADA B787-8 GHPT (CN 35258)


NAURU AIRLINES B737-3HS VH-VLI (CN 27215)

CHINA AIRLINES A330-243 B-8226 (CN 1655)


CATHAY A330-343 B-LAK (CN 1196)


QANTAS B747-438 VH-OEI (CN 32913)


CHINA AIRLINES A350-941 B-18901 (CN 049)



MIKADO PHEASANT LIVERY

AIR NEW ZEALAND B777-319 ZK-OKS (CN 44547)






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