Fokker 70's for BNE based Alliance Airlines

Alliance Airlines will receive 2 Fokker 70 aircraft next month to add to their growing fleet of Fokker 100 and Fokker 50's.These 2 F70's use to operate for Malev and are now reportedly 9H-AFS cn 11571 AND 9H-AFZ cn 11575.
It is anyone's guess whether these 70 seater jets will operate on FIFO work or RPT for Qantas.Qantas currently operate 2 Fokker 100's daily for QFlink on BNE-ROK and BNE-MKY with up to 4 services a day and 3 services a day respectively.
With Virgin Australia shortly to start regional flights out of BNE with their ATR72's i just wonder what QF and Alliance are planning???.

LYNDEN AIR CARGO C130 at BNE today

N406LC arrived from PNG today

Sharp metro today

VH-UUB operated the Essendon-Orange-Brisbane weekly mining flight.

Foreign Biz at BNE today

MJETS Thai Cit 750 arrived yesterday.

Phenom N777BF arrived from DRW

Fokkers everywhere today

As well as these Fokkers VH-FWH also departed during my stay at the airport this morning.

Movements this past week

Most interesting movement this week was QF 32 SIN-SYD diverted to BNE due to the Volcanic Ash cloud over Sydney on Tuesday evening.The aircraft was VH-OQG which overnighted and departed the next afternoon.(Photo above on blog).Skytraders A319 VH-VHD was also diverted to BNE along with another 3 Qantas 744'S.

New deliveries for Virgin Australia VH-YVA and Jetconnect 737-800 ZK-ZQG arrived into BNE in past 2 days.
Malaysian had brand new 333 9M-MTC arrive last night.
Today we have Phenom N777BF arrive.

RFDS BNE

RFDS Queensland division Brisbane base.
Over the past years the B200's and occasional PC12's from Charleville have been operating thousands of flights from taking elderley to hospitals,evacuations during the floods and of course MED1 which is the category for transferring critically ill patients to hospitals.
Over the past week thru BNE there was a total of 123 flights into and out of Brisbane airport.
VH-FDA,FDB,FDM,FDI,FDR,FDT,FDW,FDZ as well as PC12 FDM have been operating those flights.
As well as these flights our neighbours in NSW fly their Air Ambulance B200's to BNE regularly throughout the week to bring patients from country areas.VH-AMR was in on the 22nd from Coffs Harbour.

Well done to both these organizations who constantly require donations to keep them going.

Brisbane airport PART 3-Today.

VH-OQG QF 32 A380 at BNE today

N412MC of ATLAS

Brisbane Airport -spotters paradise part 2

BNE a Aviation spotters paradise PART 1

As you can see quite a large variety of aircraft operate thru BNE or a based here both as a static display and as operational .

A visit to BNE today showed the diversity of aircraft and airliners at this busy airport.
Everything from F28's to F100 of Alliance,Air Niugini,Germania,US AIR, Aviation Australia to DHL 757F,Heavylift 734F,Mineralogy MD-82'S,TOLL 733F and ATR 42F,Airlink B1900,Brindabella J41 and metroliners can be seen at this airport today and most days.
Brisbane has nearly 60 airlines from small carriers such as GWA and RFDS to the big boys such as China Southern,Qantas,Korean etc.It is a busy airport for GA,Fifo,Freight and Pax.Over 20 million pax will pass thru it's terminals this year.

Some photos of the above activity depicted below.

Virgin Australia VH-YFF arrives and other news.

Last night VH-YFF arrived from CHC around 8pm.This aircraft is the first delivered in their new livery and went to CHC to do some minor modifications.Several more 737's are nearing completion at Boeing.
Solomons A320 H4-BUS is now not expected to enter service till around 8 july.

Yesterday BNE had 2 American registered Beech 350's N8414T and N412KA .
Wagner B200 VH-WJY was also in.

Today so far China Southern had first time visitor B-2051 in which is a 777-200.
Pelair Metro VH-KEX operated a charter to Bundaberg.
Yesterday VH-DHN Citation 650 operated HIR-BNE.
New Fly in Fly out to GLT and Middlemount was operated yesterday by Skytrans with a Dash 8-100.

Alliance to get 2 more Fokker 100's

Brisbane based charter airline Alliance appears to have taken the last 2 Fokker 100's it had order but delayed.
According to CASA web site VH-XWO cn 11280 and VH-XWP cn 11281 were both registered on 7th June 2011 which means a delivery around the end of june is possible.These 2 aircraft last operated for Air Berlin in 2008.

20 Million mark reached at YBBN

BAC published the April and May 2011 pax figures

For the 12 months from June 2010 to may 2011 20,056,416 pax passed thru BNE airport

WELL DONE Brisbane.

THESE FIGURES BELOW SHOW A 5.7% GROWTH RATE overall in past 12 months.
International is around 4.28 million and domestic around 15.77 and about 9,000 transits .

June 346,613 7.4% 1,238,935 7.6% 578 1,586,126 7.6%
July 404,284 9.4% 1,387,834 6.9% 844 1,792,962 7.5%
August 370,041 5.7% 1,344,208 8.4% 600 1,714,849 7.8%
September 375,609 5.0% 1,379,710 7.4% 575 1,755,894 6.9%
October 375,225 3.3% 1,432,123 6.3% 942 1,808,290 5.6%
November 344,607 3.1% 1,347,139 8.2% 1,151 1,692,897 7.1%
December 394,539 3.2% 1,399,864 9.8% 883 1,795,286 8.2%
January 388,040 3.4% 1,193,461 0.1% 905 1,582,406 0.9%
February 299,731 -1.4% 1,113,193 1.1% 757 1,413,681 0.6%
March 305,132 -6.5% 1,290,781 5.2% 538 1,596,451 2.8%
April 349,141 7.0% 1,333,265 5.6% 608 1,683,014 5.9%
May 328,597 8.2% 1,305,456 8.6% 507 1,634,560 8.5%

Southern Air 742F yesterday

MasKargo MH 6204 operated KUL-SYD-BNE-KUL yesterday in Southern Airways colours.N765SA was the aircraft involved.This is the 3rd MasKargo cargo flight in the past 6 weeks.

Strategic and Virgin Australia news

Strategic Airlines was awarded rights to fly to China from Australia.
Yesterday in Travel Today CEO Mr Vasta stated that BNE would be apart of these flights.Initially 3 a week commencing before year's end.Destination in China TBA.

Virgin Australia with it's tie up with Singapore Airlines probable means their new flights from BNE-Abu Dhabi which start in Feb 2012 will most likely be with VA 332'S via SIN to AUH.Aircraft 3 and 4 both due early 2012 were mooted by Virgin to be for international routes.I can expect to see other destinations such as HKG perhaps out of both BNE and MEL starting next year??

Latest aircraft movements totals at YBBN

Latest aircraft movements totals April 2010-march 2011 is 192,308 at BNE and unofficial totals from May 2010-April 2011 is 192,890 .With extra movements already having started and this will expediate in last 4 months of the year when a further 30-40 movements a day come on line.
200,000 movements in 2011 is a very strong chance of happening .
Busiest day in the 12 months till March 2011 was 631 movements on Jan 12th during the Brisbane floods when plenty of helicopter and rescue movements added to the total.
Currently busiest day totals on Thursday or Fridays are around the 620 mark with figures to grow to around 660 by year's end on the busiest days of Thursday and Fridays.

Work on the new runway 01L/19R will commence mid to late 2012 but not be ready till late 2019 or early 2020.

BITRE figures show 183,700 movements in 2008/9 year
346,100 in 2028/9 year.

Number of movements (thousands) Annual average growth rate
forecast (per cent)
Actual 2008–09 Forecast 2029–30 2008–09 to 2029–30
Airport Scheduled
movements
Total
movements*
Scheduled
movements
Total
movements*
Scheduled
movements
Total
movements*
Adelaide 73.4 103.3 117.2 147.1 2.3 1.7
Brisbane 154.1 183.7 316.4 346.1 3.5 3.1
Canberra 44.1 84.8 70.5 111.1 2.3 1.3
Darwin 22.2 87.0 39.0 103.8 2.7 0.8
Hobart 14.3 29.0 22.8 37.5 2.2 1.2
Melbourne 184.0 195.0 327.7 338.7 2.2 2.0
Perth 77.8 119.0 143.9 185.1 3.0 2.1
Sydney 267.4 291.5 449.8 473.9 2.5 2.3
Total** 837.3 1 093.3 1 487.3 1 743.3 2.8 2.2
* Includes scheduled and non-scheduled aircraft movements.
** Eight capital city airports total.

BNE Year on year movements totals

Aircraft movements through Brisbane Airport
Scheduled
Year International Intercapital Regional Total Non–scheduled Total
(thousands)
2004–05 22.3 61.3 56.4 140.0 21.8 161.8
2005–06 22.3 59.9 56.6 138.8 26.4 165.3
2006–07 23.7 62.4 54.7 140.8 28.5 169.3
2007–08 24.8 66.8 55.4 147.0 30.1 177.0
2008–09 26.4 68.0 59.7 154.1 29.7 183.7
Forecasts
2009–10 27.4 74.5 56.6 158.5 29.7 188.2
2010–11 28.5 76.4 57.0 161.8 29.7 191.5
2011–12 29.8 80.6 58.3 168.8 29.7 198.5
2012–13 31.3 84.9 60.1 176.3 29.7 205.9
2013–14 32.9 88.9 62.7 184.4 29.7 214.1
2014–15 34.8 93.8 66.3 194.9 29.7 224.6
2015–16 36.8 99.2 69.7 205.7 29.7 235.3
2016–17 38.8 104.4 74.0 217.2 29.7 246.9
2017–18 40.8 108.5 77.3 226.6 29.7 256.3
2018–19 42.9 111.9 80.0 234.8 29.7 264.5
2019–20 44.9 114.8 82.4 242.1 29.7 271.7
2020–21 46.9 117.5 84.7 249.1 29.7 278.8
2021–22 49.0 120.3 87.0 256.4 29.7 286.0
2022–23 51.2 123.0 89.3 263.4 29.7 293.1
2023–24 53.5 125.6 91.6 270.7 29.7 300.4
2024–25 55.9 128.4 93.9 278.2 29.7 307.9
2025–26 58.4 131.2 96.3 285.9 29.7 315.6
2026–27 60.8 133.8 98.6 293.2 29.7 322.9
2027–28 63.4 136.4 101.0 300.7 29.7 330.4
2028–29 66.0 139.1 103.4 308.5 29.7 338.1
2029–30 68.8 141.8 105.8 316.4 29.7 346.1

Annual average growth rate (per cent):
2008–09 to 2029–30 4.7 3.6 2.8 3.5 0.0 3.1

As you can see BNE movements are 1-2 years ahead of expectations.

More BNE-MOV(Moranbah)

QantasLink says it will add a new $30 million next generation 74-seat Bombardier Q400 aircraft to its Moranbah schedule from late June following the completion of upgrading of the local airport.

QantasLink executive manager Narendra Kumar said the number of seats offered between Brisbane and Moranbah would increase from 1880 to 3044 per week with the introduction of the larger Q400 aircraft. The number of flights operated on this important route will also increase from 20 to 24 return services per week.

"This major expansion of services linking Brisbane with one of Queensland's key mining centres is in direct response to increasing demand from the local coal and resources industries. We'll continue to grow capacity on this route as more projects come online," Kumar said.

"The arrival of our flagship Q400, with its jet-like speed, will mean flight times to and from the Isaac Shire will be reduced by up to 20 per cent. Customers will also benefit from an enhanced flight experience, including a quieter and more spacious cabin and larger overhead storage bins."

QantasLink's improved Moranbah flights and schedule will see new flights on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with 15 of the weekly services operated by Q400 aircraft at peak times and the remainder serviced by the 50 seat Q300 aircraft.

Kumar said regional Queensland has always been central to QantasLink's operations.

"Having recently increased capacity on a majority of key Queensland routes during April and May, we are ready to extend this across even more of our network," he said.

"This is great news for our customers, industry, and communities across the state who are heavily reliant on air services to connect them with Brisbane and beyond. This is particularly important when it comes to the resource and LNG boom Queensland is experiencing."

Last month, QantasLink added some 6500 additional seats per week across a range of Queensland regional routes. During April and May, Barcaldine, Blackall, Bundaberg, Emerald, Gladstone, Hervey Bay, Longreach, Mackay, Moranbah, Rockhampton and Roma have all benefitted from additional and upgraded services to and from Brisbane, with many flights now operated by Q400 aircraft.

As the country's largest regional airline, QantasLink is embedded in regional Australia. With a network of 55 metropolitan and country destinations across all states and territories, the airline also launched its first international destination - Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea - in July 2010. Services linking Perth and Exmouth in Western Australia commenced on March 30.

QantasLink has invested more than $850 million in 28 new Q400 aircraft since 2006, with the current fleet of 22 to grow to 28 over the next 18 months. The airline's fleet also includes five Q200, 16 Q300 and 11 B717 aircraft, with a further two B717s recently announced.

Aeropelican increases BNE-Narrabri flights

A extra 2 flights a week on Mondays and Tuesdays commenced today.
OT 5706 arr 1720 1,2 out 1810 OT 5707 Equip J32.
Well done Aeropelican.

STRATEGIC gets China approval

http://www.iasc.gov.au/determinations_decisions/files/2011/2011iasc107.pdf
Initially 3 a week to PVG by the looks of it.
Well done Strategic.

PK-IWU Helicopter at Redcliffe.

Indonesian helicopter taken at YRED aerodrome on Friday
Photo F Nickelson.

Tiger cut backs to BNE and MCY

TIGER TO FOCUS ON SIMPLIFYING ROUTE NETWORK AND RESTORING RELIABILITY

Tiger Airways today announces a number of network changes that will simplify its Australian flying programme. These changes will enable the airline to focus on restoring the punctuality of its operation.

The Brisbane - Sydney and Sydney - Sunshine Coast routes will also be suspended from 01 August. Affected passengers on these routes will be contacted and provided with a full refund.

“These network changes will both streamline and simplify our Australian operations, enabling us to focus on combining our low fares with improved punctuality,” says Crawford Rix, CEO, Tiger Airways Australia.

In addition, as the airline does not currently have a crew base in New South Wales or Queensland, operating punctual flights between Brisbane – Sydney and Sydney – Sunshine Coast has proved more challenging than anticipated.

“We know that our customers expect an on-time flight as well as a great fare from Tiger Airways. The changes that we are making to our flying programme will enable as to improve punctuality across our network and we are hopeful that as we grow the airline we will be able to restore services on the affected routes in the near future” said Mr Rix