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Key aircraft movements
from across the region WRITER: GORDON REID
QANTAS GROUP NEWS
Qantas ferried A380-842
VH-OQK from Sydney to Dubai
as QF6011 on May 16 for planned
maintenance and painting in
the silver roo livery. VH-OQK
returned to Sydney from Dubai on
June 2 as QF6012 on completion
of the work.
A380-842 VH-OQL ferried
from Singapore to Dubai as
QF6013 on April 21 for planned
maintenance and painting in the
silver roo livery. It returned to
Sydney from Dubai on May 9 as
QF6012.
747-438ER VH-OEG ferried
from Sydney to Hong Kong as
QF6015 on May 12 for planned
maintenance.
747-48E VH-OEB returned to
Sydney as QF6031 on May 11 after
completing a round-the-world
charter for Constellation Journeys.
The flight commenced in Sydney
on April 22 and took the aircraft
to Hanoi, Delhi, Kilimanjaro,
Marrakech, New York, Havana
and Tahiti.
A330-203 VH-EBN is the first
of its type to be painted in the
Qantas silver roo livery. On May 1
VH-EBN operated QF37 from
Melbourne to Singapore where
it was repainted before ferrying
to Brisbane as QF6013 (arriving
May 18).
Qantas placed 737-838
VH-VZJ, the former ZK-ZQE, into
service on May 30 with the aircraft
operating QF798 from Brisbane to
Cairns (refer Qantas/Jetconnect
below).
A further six Qantas 737s have
been repainted in the new silver
roo livery with Flying Colours in
Townsville: VH-VZA over April 7
to April 24; VH-VZC April 13-30;
VH-VZD from May 23; VH-VZE
ex Townsville on April 8; VH-VZF
from April 24 to May 9 and
VH-VZM May 9 to May 24.
Qantas/Jetconnect withdrew
737-838 ZK-ZQEWilliam
Pickeringfrom service on May 10
after it operated QF120 from
Auckland to Brisbane (refer
above).
QantasLink/Network took
delivery of A320-232 VH-VQU
Red River Gumin Perth on
April 13 after the aircraft ferried in
from Seletar as JQ8996. VH-VQU
entered service on April 26 when
it operated QF2642 from Perth to
Karratha.
Jetstar took delivery of
A320-232 VH-XJE in Melbourne
on March 27 (Traffic/May) and
then placed the aircraft into serviceon April 5 when it operated JQ576
from Melbourne to Brisbane.
Ex Qantas 767-238 VH-EAQ
was delivered to Weststar General
Aviation, now registered N2767, in
Subang on May 13. On May 21 the
767 arrived in Perth from Subang.AIRLINE NEWS
In this issue we report the delivery
of an A330-200 to Fiji Airways,
a Fokker 100 to Alliance and an
ATR 72-600 to ANZ Link/Mount
Cook. Departures to report are
an ATR 72-500 of ANZ Link/
Mount Cook and two Beech
1900Ds of ANZ Link/Eagle while a
BAe 146-300 of Cobham Aviation
was removed from the register.
AirCalin ferried A320-232
F-OZNC as AC1980 from Noumea
to Darwin and Kuala Lumpur on
May 22 for planned maintenance.
Continuing issues with Air New
Zealand’s 787-9 ‘Package C’ Rolls-
Royce Trent 1000 engines has seen
the airline lease a 777-200ER and
wet-lease an A340-300.
777-212ER ZK-OKI was
registered to Air New Zealand on
May 15. This aircraft was built
on order for Singapore Airlines
as 9V-SVL, which operated it
between November 26 2002 and
March 1 2018.Air New Zealand has again wet-
leased Hi Fly Malta A340-313X
9H-SUN, with the aircraft
returning to Auckland on May
22 from Brussels and Mandalay.
9H-SUN re-entered service with
Air New Zealand the same day
when it operated NZ10 from
Auckland to Honolulu.
787-9 ZK-NZE returned to
service on June 1 when it operated
NZ101 from Auckland to Sydney,
after having been grounded at
Auckland since December 5 ’17.
Meanwhile, 787-9 ZK-NZG was
grounded at Auckland on April 18
after operating NZ178 from Perth
to Auckland.
In other Air New Zealand news,
777-219ER ZK-OKD was ferried
from Auckland to Singapore as
NZ6004 on May 25 for planned
maintenance and repainting in the
current Air New Zealand livery. It
returned to Auckland as NZ6005
on May 28.
Former Air New Zealand
767-319ER ZK-NCJ had been
in storage in Alice Springs since
February 13 2017, where it was
later registered N930WE. On
April 21 it departed Alice Springs
for Honolulu and Wilmington,
Ohio prior to its conversion to a
freighter.VH-EBN is the first -200 series A330
to be repainted in the latest Qantas
scheme.BROCK LITTLE