Air New Zealand B777-300ER, ZK-OKQ

I haven't taken many photos of the Black 777 for a while, and I seem to only be around at sunset for photos of ZK-OKQ. Well I'm not complaining and I think it looks great in good light conditions, and I was lucky to have a nice sunset again for arrival of NZ124 from Melbourne.

ZK-OKQ

ZK-OKQ 

ZK-OKQ

ZK-OKQ

Fedex MD-11F, N574FE

Due to a technical problem I believe on Sunday night, which caused the departure of FX75 to Sydney to be delayed until Monday 18th April at 1400. So with some time to spare, I managed to head out and get these photos of N574FE taxing out some 18 hours late. It's rare to see the departures on FX in Auckland on Sundays as they leave after sundown, so making photo ops out of the question.

Ok...the MD-11 is a hot favourite of mine so sorry for so many shots, but it was a good an opportunity to miss in daylight hours.

N574FE

N574FE 

N574FE

N574FE

N574FE

N574FE

N574FE

I just love the rate of climb and power of the MD-11's, and they sure put on a good show at takeoff, and today FX75 sure went up at a great rate, as I tried to get in the takeoff photos below.

N574F

N574FE

N574FE

N574FE 

N574FE

Emirates "United for Wildlife" A380, A6-EEQ

Well it was so pleasing to see Emirates A380, A6-EEQ in Auckland with the very newly applied "United for Wildlife" livery on Friday the 15th April. It operated in and out of Brisbane as EK434 and EK435. I believe Emirates now have three A380's with these very impressive animal decals applied and it sure does look great in person. The late afternoon setting sun was just perfect for these photos.

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ 

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ 

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

A6-EEQ

Emirates A380, AC Milan Livery, A6-EET

Emirates have applied several special liveries to some of their A380's and have been deploying them on the Auckland route on and off lately. A6-EET now wears the AC Milan Soccer Team, well some of them anyway, on the back of the aircraft. Got these first photos of EET arriving from Sydney yesterday the 14th April arriving as EK412.

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A6-EET

A6-EET

A6-EET

A6-EET

Air New Zealand B777-200ER, ZK-OKE

Sorry for so many Air NZ photos this week, but had great weather, as you can tell from the blue skies, well to the east of the airport anyway, for the arrivals into Auckland a week or so ago.

Next to arrive was ZK-OKE in these photos, about five minutes after ZK-NCJ had arrived.

ZK-OKE 

ZK-OKE

ZK-OKE

ZK-OKE

Air New Zealand B767-300ER, ZK-NCJ

Well Air New Zealand's B767's have had a long and very good life at the airline, but as this year sees the arrival of 3 more B787-9's into the fleet, the days of seeing these great work horses flying in our skies is getting closer to the end. But they still have some life left in them yet and will continue to serve the airline on their new Vietnam and Philippine's routes I would say until at least the end of 2017.

Do be honest I have not got many good photos of Air NZ's B767's, so might try a bit harder between now and the end of next year. Starting with these shots off ZK-NCJ.

ZK-NCJ 

ZK-NCJ

ZK-NCJ

Air New Zealand B777-300ER, ZK-OKR

I haven't taken many photos of Air New Zealand's B777-300ER, ZK-OKR since it arrived into their fleet, so was pleasantly surprised when it arrived overhead into Auckland last week.

ZK-OKR

ZK-OKR 

ZK-OKR

Check out the bird just below the left wing in this next photo, pretty close call for a bird strike from this angle.

ZK-OKR

ZK-OKR

Air Asia X - Returns to New Zealand

Air Asia X have once again commenced operations back into New Zealand with daily flights, using A330-300's from Kuala Lumpur via the Gold Coast, OOL, in Australia. Their first flight touched down in Auckland on the 23rd March. They have some great special liveries on their A330's and this one is one of the best, 9M-XXT seen here arriving on the 3rd April.

9M-XXT 

9M-XXT 

9M-XXT

9M-XXT

9M-XXT

Auckland Reduced Length Runway - Thai Airways

My only other photos of reduced length operations at Auckland. So was lucky to get these photos also of TG491, HS-TJV arriving. I'm kicking myself now wishing I'd made it out to get more photos of these long landings. I'm sure there will another time.

HS-TJV

HS-TJV

HS-TJV

HS-TJV