A rare sight in Adelaide

[Buzzard]

Having just flown in from SYD, I noticed a Qantas 747 sitting on the tarmac at 2000hrs, not at a gate.

Very rare to see any 747 in ADL so what gives with this one?

 

[Rox]

I can't answer that, so this is off topic but you got me to wondering...
I was told yesterday about a truck that got bogged in melting road Tarmac in this heat wave, ( melbourne) possibly due to not being driven carefully enough, but I was still surprised that could happen.
Are there any similar issues with very heavy planes landing in such heat?

 

[Anna]

It is doing an Antarctic tour on Sunday.

 

[markis10]

Having just flown in from SYD, I noticed a Qantas 747 sitting on the tarmac at 2000hrs, not at a gate.

Very rare to see any 747 in ADL so what gives with this one?

Its OEG doing the Antartica charter tomorrow.

 

[Buzzard]

Thank you both for your answers. I did ask the crew on my flight and they didn't have a clue.
Casually mentioned that I would post on AFF and get an answer almost immediately...... and I did x 2

 

[Pushka]

I was so tempted by that trip. But the cheapest seat was $1200 which gave you a seat in the middle of economy and no seat rotation. Can't imagine you'd see a thing.

 

[Chief Wiggum]

I was so tempted by that trip. But the cheapest seat was $1200 which gave you a seat in the middle of economy and no seat rotation. Can't imagine you'd see a thing.

Yeah... for many years I've coveted "that trip" which runs from MEL SYD also on various occasions. If noting else I figure it would be a cool casual answer to the Monday morning questions at the office... "What'dya get up to on the weekend ?" "Well... lets see... Saturday I mowed the lawns and tidied up around the yard a bit... and yesterday I went down to Antarctica" and the just walk off to get a coffee like it was nothing

I agree though about the pricing and the service offerings. For my money you'd have to go in one of the two-abreast seats where you get to stay in those two seats, either window or next to window. For me the price to sit in the middle and

Back OT... I travel back home to ADE regularly from MEL and yeah... the biggest you'll see there these days is a 777 or A330. Been a long time since I lived there but I seem to remember the runway extension / diversion of Tapleys Hill Road was to allow "big" aircraft to take off fully loaded from ADE to Asia/Arabia. Is it just the evolution of bigger/stronger/faster/better aircraft that means 777/A330 have taken the place of 747 in this region ?

 

[medhead]

Think I heard this take off while picking up a child from a birthday party sleep over. I was chatting to the mum at the time so couldn't run outside to look.

There is a regular* SQ cargo 747 that visits ADL. So the limit is not 777/A330, just the bigger aircraft are rare.


* well noticed it a few times over the last 6 months or so.