Brisbane to Alice Springs Flight

Today is a day I have been waiting for for some time, today I flew out to Alice Springs to visit the APAS (Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage) site. I have been keeping an eye on flightradar24 for some weeks now watching Cathay 777's, Cathay Dragon A320 / A321's and Cebu Pacific bring their aircraft here. My flight was leaving at 8.40am so I got dropped off at the airport around 7.30am. Going through tighter security I made it up to my gate getting a couple of quick photos along the way.

QANTASLINK B717-200 VH-NXQ (CN 55097)

ALLIANCE FOKKER F28 MK 70 VH-QQW (CN 11569)

We boarded our Qantas Boeing 737-838 from gate 16 at 8.12am. As I boarded I noticed the registration was VH-VYF (CN 33994). I took my seat which was 5A. Wasn't long and all passengers were on board, I am guessing there would have been around 60 POB. The last door closed at 8.36am and we pushed back at 8.46am. At 8.54am we began taxiing out for runway 01L. This was exiting for me as this was my first departure off the new runway since it opened last month

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QANTAS B737-838 VH-VZM (CN 34192)

QANTAS B737-838 VH-VZL (CN 34194)

CROSSING OVER THE NEW TUNNEL

BRISBANE TOWER

We got airborne at 9.03am and maintained runway heading for a few miles before banking left and headed west to Alice Springs.

We climbed up to flt lvl 380 and our track took us out over Roma, north of Birdsville and onto Alice Springs. The flight was very smooth all the way. We were offered banana bread and a beverage of our choice. I opted for water.

CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT

TWO NAURU AIRLINES B737-300'S

SINGAPORE A380-841 9V-SKK (CN 051)

ALICE SPRINGS TOWER

We began our descent into Alice at 11.43am and landed on runway 12 at 12.04pm. Alice is 30 minutes behind Brisbane making our actual landing time 11.34am. Of course with all airports there was a Covid 19 screening process which went very smoothly. Queensland is very lucky as we have no cases so clearing this wasn't an issue. I picked up my hire car and had a drive around the airport perimeter getting a few arrivals. 

BRM AERO BRISTELL  VH-WPD (CN 326/2018)

GARUDA INDONESIA A330-343 PK-GPZ (CN 1698)
GA7150 SYDNEY - DENPASSAR

QANTASLINK B717-23S VH-NXD (CN 55062)
QF1934 ARRIVING FROM PERTH

AMATEUR BUILT NINJA VH-ELJ (CN 1007053)

I raced into town and grabbed some lunch then headed back to the airport for my 2pm helicopter flight over the air park. Those photos will follow in a few days