Every year Qantas operate a one day sightseeing flight over Antarctica departing from various cities around Australia during the Australian summer period. As mentioned in my blog on the 7th June 2017 https://madaboutplanes.blogspot.com/2017/06/hobart-to-get-antarctic-flight.html thanks to the new runway extensions; for the first time Hobart has a flight listed departing Hobart on the 25th November 2018.
Below are the cities and dates.
SYDNEY
Saturday 25th November 2017
Check in at 6:45am
Depart Sydney 7:30am
Return Sydney 8:30pm
MELBOURNE
Sunday 31st December 2017
Check in at 4:45pm
Depart Melbourne 5:30pm
Return Melbourne 6:00am (Next Day)
Sunday 11th February 2018
Check in at 7:15am
Depart Melbourne 8:00am
Return Melbourne 8:30pm
BRISBANE
Sunday 18th February 2018
Check-in 6:45am
Depart 7:30am
Return 9:00pm
HOBART
Sunday 25th November 2018
Check-in 7:15am
Depart 8:00am
Return 8:00pm
PERTH
Saturday 26th January 2019
Check-in 7:15am
Depart 8:00am
Return 8:30pm
Well today was "suppose" to be Hobarts turn to shine and despite flightradar24 showing the flight as Melbourne to Hobart, they "didn't" get a Jumbo landing at the airport this morning, which by the way would have been an extremely rare event. It seems the Qantas 747-438 over flew them at 290.
Qantas flight 2902 departed Melbourne's runway 16 at 9.34am and headed south over Bass Strait and onto Tasmania over flying abeam Hobart at 10.28am at flight level 290. Listening to Hobart Airport (under Cambridge Airport) on LiveATC, at 23.35 UTC (10.35 Hobart Time) I heard ATC tell Qantas your identification was now terminated and they were to continue on data link and HF Freq 8867 primary 13261 as secondary was a back up.
As the day went on I discovered the Jumbo would be landing in Hobart tonight on its return. Thinking about this, this makes sense as it would have been to heavy for Hobarts 2750mtr runway. Landing tonight they would have been a lot lighter.
Qantas 2902 landed in Hobart on runway 12 at 8.38pm Hobart time (10.38 Zulu it is rumoured to be overnighting there and heading to Sydney in the morning.
This is the first time that I know of that a Boeing 747 has landed in Hobart since September 1990.
There has only been three times that I am aware of.
The very first one was a Boeing 747-200 VH-EBN landing on the 22nd September 1989.
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| QANTAS B747-238 VH-EBN (CN 21353) |
The second time was a Boeing 747SP VH-EAA landing on 22nd February 1990
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| QANTAS B747SP VH-EAA (CN 22495) |
The third time was a Boeing 747-400 landing on the 20th September 1990.
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| QANTAS B747-438 VH-OJG (CN 24779) |
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