Friday, October 11, 2013

Cathay Pacific, One World Livery

Some more shots this time again of B-HXG, Cathay's One World Livery A340-300 arriving from Hong-Kong. B-HXG seems to be a regular now on the HKG-AKL-HKG route.

B-HXG

B-HXG

B-HXG



Tuesday, October 8, 2013

China Southern, B-6058

Well a sight not to be seen for much longer in Auckland, well at least the A330-200 that China Southern operate to Auckland. Replacing their A330-200's on the Auckland route at the end of October with the B787-8's, will make China Southern the first airline to operate the Dreamliner to/from New Zealand.

CZ305, B-6058 Arriving in Auckland.

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

Thursday, October 3, 2013

King Air 250, N175EU

This is one immaculate Beechcraft  King Air 250, N175EU seen here in Auckland on a demonstration visit.

N175EU

N175EU


N175EU

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Over The Pacific

I took these photos onboard NZ4, AKL-LAX last October about two and a half hours out of LAX and just before the breakfast service.
I have flown the AKL-LAX sector about 60 times as a passenger and on almost every flight, about two hours out of of LA there is always a thick cloud base below as far as you can see into the horizon. I was a bit late in waking up on this flight for some better photos, but the sunrise onto the clouds in the morning can be quite spectacular.

NZ4
AKl-LAX

NZ4
AKL-LAX

NZ4
AKL-LAX

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Air New Zealand's New Livery On Display

Air New Zealand's new Livery flew into Auckland today for the very first time.

The honour of wearing the new livery first goes to ZK-OXB which underwent the livery change in Christchurch over the recent couple of days.

Seen here arriving into Auckland for the first time, and its first revenue flight with the new paint job as NZ516 from CHC. It left again at 2:15pm again for Queenstown as NZ647.

ZK-OXB
First Flight new Livery NZ516 CHC-AKL

ZK-OXB

ZK-OXB
NZ647 Departing AKL-ZQN

ZK-OXB

ZK-OXB

ZK-OXB

ZK-OXB

Thai Airways, TG491

Some photos of HS-TJW as TG491 from Bangkok about to land at Auckland.

HS-TJW

HS-TJW

HS-TJW

Monday, September 23, 2013

Piper PA-28-151, ZK-DSK

This immaculate Piper PA-28-151 Cherokee Warrior, ZK-DSK resting at the Te Awamutu airstrip on a great summers afternoon.

ZK-DSK

ZK-DSK

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Boeing 787-8

As this week marked the maiden flight of Boeing 787-9 in Seattle, I thought it would be a good idea to add these shots of the B787-8 that visited Auckland back in November 2011 on a promotional visit for Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand has orders only for the B787-9 series, with the first one due for delivery in mid 2014.