Alex L
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Hi All,
Am selling a number of my models. As I am based in Australia, if you are happy to wait till mid January 2018, I will be travelling to Malaysia so postage will be cheaper. Otherwise, if you buy more than 2 models, I can cover the postage, which will be economy air mail from Australia. If you wait till I get to Malaysia, I can let you know how much postage will be. I will be shipping from Penang.
I will be transmitting
Models for sale (so prices here are excluding postage).
1x Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300ER 1:400 Phoenix model - All Blacks 1st Edition = $210 RM
1x Thai Airways A350-900 HS-THD 1:400 Phoenix models = $190 RM
1x China Airlines Boeing 777-300ER 1:400 JC Wings in the 'dreamliner scheme' B-18807= $165 RM
1x Lufthansa A330-300 D-DIKD 1:400 Phoenix Models (RARE, hard to find) = $160 RM
1x Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 1:400 9V-SPQ (fade is present on the box, but hard to find!) = $155 RM
Paypal payment please. You will need to pay for the model prior to me leaving Australia (Jan 19 2018).
Please don't hesitate to message me if you have any questions.
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According to The BA Source and flightradar24.com: It positioned from Manila as BA9172.
I am assuming it went to Manila for Maintenance (as QF also sends its A380s there). According to the BA source, it went to KL for further maintenance.
Aircraft is G-XLEC.
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Do you have pictures of the models?
I am interested in a few, but would like to see pictures if any and the regos of them please?
Thanks!
Alex
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Changing of the guard, Cathay Pacific has handed to Dragonair the Penang flights, with CX692 being operated by BHUE for the last time and KA691 the inbound Penang flight from Hong Kong being operated by BHWM, their latest A333. Dragonair maintains the 10x weekly flights but now all A333's.
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The Star in Malaysia was reporting that two of the passengers weren't actually on MH370. The Austrian passenger is alive and well as is the Italian passenger who is in Thailand at present. The Italian said his passport was stolen. Not wanting to add any fire to speculation, this maybe more than just a simple crash.
Nevertheless, my thoughts and prayers are with the families involved with MH370.
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The thing is, if they are delayed say 30 minutes, they would eat into Sydney's curfew, which I have been told is one of the world's strictest curfews around. Thus, they only have about 20 minutes (I think winter is 10pm - 5am, summer is 11pm - 6am) to play with if they were to have any delays. Hence, pushing departure back is great but they are getting very close to a point where they don't want to be at and that's running into any sort of delay.
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Sorry my bad, head is thinking one thing and hand type another!!!
It's actually Air China..
In that case that's easy. Air China operate direct to Beijing (early arrival with late departure) and on selected days operate to Shanghai as well, hence 2 Air China birds.
Alex.
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Mr ALex, you are good. May I kindly ask where do you go about sourcing all these informations. Something for me to learn!
As for China Airlines, It's definetly not China Southern as the taill fin is not blue in colour.
airlineroute.net is a great place to start. The other place is the Sydney airport website, www.sydneyairport.com.au.
China Airlines don't operate the A330-200. So if it were China Airlines, it would be a -300. As mentioned, only explanation could be the curfew it missed since Sydney has a very tight curfew with $$ for penalties if you choose to break it.
Alex.
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Can anyone shed some lights on the following.
Drove past Sydney Airport this morning, hang around and saw the following:
1. 3 United Airlines B747-400s.
2. 3 Singapore Airlines B777s (2 772ERs & 1 773ER).
3. 2 China Airlines A330-200s.
4. 3 Emirates Airlines (1 A380 & 2 773ERs).
5. 2 Cathay Pacfic A330-300s.
This is a bit unusual. What I saw is one of three United planes were at the terminal, two at the long term parking bay.
One SIA at the long term parking bay and two at the terminal. What puzzle me as well is 2 of the SIA B777s took off within 10mins apart.
The first take off is B773 and followed by B772.
Then not long after, Cathay landed and there are two. However one departed some 30mins later!
Also 2 China Airlines at the terminal.
As for Emirates, I guess not surpringly.
Any clue?
Maybe I can try help.
1. 3 United Airlines B747-400s.
During December and January, United are operating 3 a day services (December) and 17 I think services a week (January) into Sydney. Extra flight is UA826/827, which arrives early and leaves at about 12pm. The other two flights are as per normal (UA839/840, UA870/863).
2. 3 Singapore Airlines B777s (2 772ERs & 1 773ER).
While the SQ A380 isn't at full Aus services yet, SQ operated periodic supplementary services into Sydney and Melbourne to cope with demand. This is SQ262 / 263, which operates on a triangular service (SIN-SYD-MEL-SIN). That would be the other 772 you saw. The 773 is not an ER bird but SQ221/212, which has been operated by the 773 for a while now and I think until just after Christmas before it reverts to the A380. Hence 3 777s.
3. 2 China Airlines A330-200s.
China Airlines only operates A330-300's. I would hazard a guess that this would be China Airlines and maybe China Southern? If there were two China Airlines A330's, then I couldnt explain it. Potentially missed curfew from the previous night.
4. 3 Emirates Airlines (1 A380 & 2 773ERs).
Unless there was a diversion from Melbourne, would not be able to explain the presence of the 2nd 777. As far as I can find, A6-EDO and A6-ECM went into Sydney on the 19th and there were no other Emirates aircraft recorded during that time.
5. 2 Cathay Pacfic A330-300s.
Cathay operate 4x daily services during summer to Sydney. Chances are you saw CX162 heading to Hong Kong and CX101 coming from Hong Kong.
Hope this helps.
Alex.
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CHC won't be non-stop. It's via OOL. And there's no way they'll get A330-300s to make it to Western Europe unless they decide to order the A330-200s instead. Sounds like the Paris route is looking like it will be successful. I wonder if MH is getting good load factors on their flights to Paris? As for flights to the US, I don't know how successful they'll be because they will be competing with a lot more carriers between Europe and New York. As for LA, isn't MH kinda struggling a little on that route?I think you will find on pages and pages that the KUL - CHC flight is NON-STOP. They are only doing it 4x weekly and the flight schedules loaded are direct flights. Besides, they would mention if a stopover were happening when people book the flights.
Remember that Air Asia X have A350's on order. They should make it easy to Western Europe (thought Budapest, Prague and Moscow was Eastern?). The A330's they are ordering already have IGW (as they are the E range) so they should have the legs to do at least Eastern Europe. In comparison, I think Thomas Cook from Europe did flights from Europe to Phuket non stop during Christmas and peak periods.
MH is only struggling on the route to LA because it only flies it like 2 - 3 weekly. That is nothing when you want to make a footprint on a route. The minimum is about 4x week or even daily. It also flies via TPE which isn't a high yield port anyway. Hence a lot of factors are point to the reason why MH isn't doing the best on that route. As for Air Asia X and New York via Europe... If they can pick a port that allows them 5th freedom rights, then done. Low cost to New York and I mean low cost (since Air Asia X's cost base is amazingly low) then you would be able to easily make a profit with say 4x week to New York (feed into EWR and you'd could feed onto UA/CO, into JFK and DL, AA) so there would be good reason that it could work.
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Wow, even sending 1 Airbus to France !!!
Cannot they send a few from Australia down to Singapore to supplement the fleet there ?
Australia's fleet of 9 A320s are either based out of Adelaide or Melbourne. As it is they are stretched to the limit so getting an aircraft to Singapore would be difficult as Tiger's Australian ops would be affected as it would take a while (8 hours potentially?) to get the aircraft to Singapore.
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I just think Aussies need to understand that when there is a sale that involves Asians, they need to act pretty much immediately otherwise miss out.
I travelled with Air Asia X on their $99 fare to KL from Melbourne and I booked my tickets at about 2.30am - 3.00am which was crap but I knew that if I didn't book straight away, the seats would be gone. Turned out an original 2 week trip shrunk to a 8 day trip as a result.
Air Asia X can only have X number of seats for this cheap fare otherwise they would make a very severe loss. We all know that. I'm sure there are people out there however who did manage to get some really cheap flights from Aus - KL though...
I'm sure that when Air Asia X was still advertising the $250 seats to London at 2pm they would have still had 1 seat available. At least one seat for $250 is still there so how is Air Asia X lying? People just need to search ALL the dates during the travel time to find that elusive seat!
Alex.
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So has anyone tried these new seats yet?
I made a book the seat payment for my flight to Melbourne on Feb 2nd and it showed that the Premium class only had 12 seats as opposed to about 18 on the MEL-KUL (which was XAA.) Does that mean that I would be most likely flying on XXE? Would it be worth trying to get an upgrade at the airport for it or are the seats better than XAA that I would survive?
With Emirates entering onto the MEL-KUL route, MAS are already reducing their fares from Melbourne - KL to compete. I mean, the cost of a one way ticket can get you a return ticket on MAS now. Emirates are going on average for $600 - $750 return in Economy but their flight back to Melbourne doesn't connect to anything. Would people take that flight if they needed to get to say Brisbane or Hobart where connections would be 6hrs +?
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OK... I contacted Emirates here in Australia. They said flights are bookable from Melbourne - KL (so they have fifth freedom rights it seems). Asked them for a dummy booking fare price, they said $854.41 return from Melbourne - KL. It should be all in but the operator didn't seem to have any idea what I was on about.
She said flights seemed to be wait listed a fair bit in July / August but fares from Malaysia at the moment are full fare at $3940RM. I don't know if taxes are included or not.
Hope this helps.
Alex.
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I think this was referring to the old wet lease arrangement of OK-TVD/TVC and TVA if I am not mistaken.
TVD and TVC were delivered (one with and one without winglets) but they never took up TVA because IIRC it was too dear to lease that one as well.
The current 3 738's will stay pretty much long term.
Correct me if I am wrong please.
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It's not surprising, especially since Air Asia can now operate pretty much from anywhere in Malaysia / Thailand / Indonesia to Singapore. IIRC in the past JB was all about the getting to Singapore for cheaper than the expensive full service carriers (MH / SQ). Now that they are able to operate into SIN pretty much unrestricted and opening routes up quickly, it's not surprising to see them put their efforts into Singapore as it's more valuable to them compared with JB.
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He also says it will be launching new international services from these places but he was unable to elaborate.I know that Penang - Hong Kong and Phuket - Hong Kong will be one of them according to the Hong Kong Spotters Forum.
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It could be Lion Air's next B739ER, if it is an ER. Lion Air has been rumoured to be taking the 739ER's from XL now they went bust.
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I have no prices but I have a schedule.
flights start 29th March 2009
5x Weekly
Day 2 KUL 0100 - 0800 STN 0930 - 0530+1 KUL
Day 3,6 KUL 0950 - 1650 STN 1810 - 1410+1 KUL
Day 4,7 KUL 1700 - 0000+1 STN 0125 - 2125 KUL
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QR is operating A319's to TXL, a 6 hours 25 mins flight So.....they can operate pretty long trips; LH is using them North-Atlantic, although with reduced seating-capacity...
See CeeBee's picture @ Obs Hill
QR's A319 fleet is LR aircraft IIRC, hence they have the legs to do the long trips. LH's A319 fleet is from Privitair, also a fleet of LR aircraft, again with the legs to do long trip. BI's A319 fleet I am pretty sure aren't LR aircraft so it is a longer stretch for them compared with the QR / LH (Privitair) A319 fleets.
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I don't think it's a matter of justified. The fact was, Jetstar needed the plane to service the new Japan routes. It either had to pull the HNL plane or the plane that went to Bali and Bangkok. KUL is the youngest of all the destinations JQ started, so I guess you could say in that sense they pulled a route that didn't have enough time to prove itself.
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Expect an announcement after the 5th and 6th A380s arrive on the start of SQ1 / SQ2 to San Francisco. Sometime in October is the expected start date.
That would mean Emirates = 1 flight (JFK), Singapore = 4 (SYD / LHR / NRT / SFO via HKG)
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Yep... $1010 AUD was the introductory price.
All booked and heading for LA in January.
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AP - An official at Los Angeles International Airport says an Australia-bound Qantas jet carrying hundreds of passengers blew four tyres while trying to take off and got stranded on the runway.Airport spokeswoman Treva Miller says none of the 232 passengers or crew on Qantas Flight 12 to Sydney was hurt in the incident.
Flight operations at the airport were not expected to be affected.
Miller says the pilot aborted takeoff after he noticed a warning light go off as he took the Boeing 747-400 down the runway at 11.05pm (1705 AEDT).
The plane came to rest, stuck on an adjacent runway.
Emergency personnel got everyone off the jet without incident.
The passengers were taken to hotels and would be placed on flights to Sydney later today, a Qantas official said.
©AAP 2008
Yep. The plane was Wunala Dreaming, VH-OEJ. New ETA of QF12 is 2100 tomorrow (Wednesday night). Now this might stuff up Qantas schedules again.
Alex.
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Update and with updated prices and new additions.
I travel to Penang on 19 January 2018 so if you want any of the models, get them now before its too late to keep postage down!
1x Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300ER 1:400 Phoenix model - All Blacks 1st Edition = $195 RM
1x Thai Airways A350-900 HS-THD 1:400 Phoenix models = $155 RM
1x China Airlines Boeing 777-300ER 1:400 JC Wings in the 'dreamliner scheme' B-18807= $145 RM
1x Lufthansa A330-300 D-DIKD 1:400 Phoenix Models (RARE, hard to find) = $155 RM
1x Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 1:400 9V-SPQ (fade is present on the box, but hard to find!) = $155 RM1x Air Asia X 9M-XXU 1:400 Phoenix Models $155 RM
2x Qantas Boeing 787-900 VH-ZNA 1:400 Phoenix Models $145 RM each.
1x Etihad Airways F1 2015 Scheme 1:400 A340-600 A6-EHJ $175 RM
I have many more, feel free to message me for details and prices.
Alex