Air New Zealand brings in 787-9 instead of 767-300

Well it was almost 24 hours to the minute when we were last at the airport, last night it was for the final Malaysia Airlines flight and tonight it was for two reasons. The regular late afternoon Air New Zealand flight (NZ139) from Auckland is normally operated by a B767-300 but as that aircraft went U S yesterday, tonight's flight was operated by a B787-9. This is only the second time an Air New Zealand 787-9 has visited Brisbane. This aircraft was the test aircraft that passed through Brisbane on the way to Alice Springs in January 2014 for hot weather testing; but this is its first revenue flight. The other reason was, the China Airlines flight that normally arrives around 10.50am  from Taipei and departs at 12.30pm for Auckland was severely delayed due to a Typhoon crossing Taipei. This aircraft came in just over 6 hours late at 5.25pm this evening.
When we got to the airport we noticed a Royal Australian Air Force B737-7DT (BBJ)  parked at the logistics and while we took photos of that a Dassault Falcon 7 arrived.

ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE B737-7DT A36-002 (CN 30790)

PRIVATE OWNER DASSAULT FALCON 7 VH-CRW (CN 217)
(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

BOTH B737-7DT BBJ and the DASSAULT FALCON TOGETHER
(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-YFI (CN 41000)

AIR NEW ZEALAND A320-232 ZK-OJF (CN 2153)

AIR NEW ZEALAND ARRIVING FROM QUEENSLAND
(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VYF (CN 33994)

VIRGIN AUSTRALIA B737-8FE VH-YIV (CN 41698)

AIR NEW ZEALAND B787-9 ZK-NZD (41989)

AIR NEW ZEALAND 139 ARRIVING FROM AUCKLAND

(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

TIGER AIRWAYS A320-232 VH-VNP (CN 2952)

CHINA AIRLINES A330-312 B-18359 (CN 1367)
(Photo Credit Judy Berry)

ARRIVING FROM TAIPEI