SQ8896 Alice Springs to Sydney

[Townsend]

This is a SQ a380 currently in the sky! Fantastic to see an a380 in the air and I wish I was near syd to see it land

 

[Mattg]

I wonder why Singapore Airlines need an A380 in Sydney? (Unless it's refuelling there before being sent to the scrapyard?)

 

[kpc]

About to land at Syd...

 

[dajop]

Interestingly, or perhaps not, SQ8896 did SIN-ASP on the airframe 9V-SKL then continued on to SYD using airframe 9V-SKQ. So who knows, rotating craft around storage? Or What Mattg suggested, but SKL is the older of the two (by around a year).

 

[AIRwin]

So who knows, rotating craft around storage? Or What Mattg suggested, but SKL is the older of the two (by around a year).

Musical chairs? In fact, it makes sense from what I've just read that SKQ, being the younger aircraft, will be refurbished instead of being sent to the scrapyard...

 

[Mattg]

It’s being towed across to the SYD international terminal as we speak.

 

[dajop]

Discussion of the reason for the move below ... some checks in Sydney before flying to Singapore for refitting with new product.

Resurrected! Singapore A380 departs Alice Springs boneyard

A Singapore A380 left the Alice Springs ‘boneyard’ on Monday morning to be fitted with a new cabin allowing it to eventually return to service.

australianaviation.com.au

 

[BAM1748]

Looks like you're in the "bulb".

It’s being towed across to the SYD international terminal as we speak.

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