Sharp Airlines to Brisbane

Starting Monday 31 jan Sharp Airlines will start a weekly Essendon-Orange-Brisbane closed mining charter flight.Aircraft will be a Metroliner arriving BNE at 0900 hrs out at 10am.
Sharp will be a new airline for Brisbane.
Airlines that now operate mining charters through BNE airport include Alliance,Rex,Pelair,Skytrans,Hardy Aviation,Sharp,GAM,GWA,Central and Wagners.

Timor saab at BNE today

ZK-VAA formerly VH-UYN of Macair at BNE today bound for Timor.

A long way from home for this visitor

Britten Norman islander F-GDHD arrived from ISA yesterday.

DFW-BNE in 2011

Qantas will commence a 4 times weekly 747 service from 16 may 2011 SYD-DFW-BNE-SYD.This will test the range of the 744ER, therefore the need for a stopover in BNE as headwinds will be a big issue.
In regards to BNE QF008 will arr BNE at 0500 on Mon,wed,fri,sun.

Yearly movements totals till November 2010

From January to November BNE has recorded 172,230 movements with December expected to see another 16,000 making around 188,000 plus movements a new record.The figure for the calendar 2010 year should be confirmed in another 1month.
Year 2011 should see further increases as we near 200,000 movements.

Brisbane airport stays open

Well after the terrible floods of the past few days BNE airport stayed open.During this period BNE handled a record 630 movements on Wednesday (not official) due to the increased helicopter and light aircraft movements .Up to 10 helicopters were flying over the Brisbane river at any one time.January is usually the quietest month for aircraft movements.

Well done Brisbane Airport.

Virgin Blue orders 18 Turbo props

Virgin Blue group and Skywest entered into a 10 year deal to service regional Australia with Skywest operating 18 turbo props in Virgin Blue branding.They will operate to existing destinations and to new ports around Australia. SOURCE(ASX)

There has been much speculation on Aviation boards today that the aircraft are either Q400's or ATR-72's.We will have to await this announcement.
No doubt we will see these aircraft at BNE as numerous regional ports ex BNE only have one carrier presently and cry out for competition.BNE is of course Virgin Blue's head office port.
We await with anticipation.

OOL airport photos

Phenom VH-PNM at OOL about to land (photo Terry M)

Cirrus VH-PDV and N75FE at OOL.(Photo Terry M)

VH-EBJ at ool earlier this month.First visit in Jetstar colors as it was originally in Qantas livery.

Photo Terry M

China Airlines commences BNE-AKL

Yesterday 2 Jan China Airlines entered the Trans-Tasman market by commencing BNE-AKL flights 3 times a week.CAL 053 BNE-AKL and CAL 054 AKL-BNE.Aircraft are A330-300'S with B-18317 operating the inaugral flight.Previously the China Airlines flights terminated in BNE.

Special movements due to floods in Sth QLD

In past week there has been lot's of flooding in ROK(Rockhampton)EMD(Emerald)BDB(Bundaberg) and a further 19 towns across the state.
ROK airport is now closed to air traffic .In the past few days Skytrans have operated up to 6 departures a day from BNE to ROK, before it was closed, EMD ,Blackwater.Some flights were for evacuations and some for bringing in provisions.
Today we have a ATLAS 744F N492MC operating between BNE and CNS in support of provisions for these floods which are amongst the worst ever seen.N492MC is expected to operate 3 flights today and again tomorrow.
GAM DO228 has also operated at least one flight to Blackwater.GWA Navajo's have also been doing flood flights as well out of BNE.