Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Scheduled 787 services to Brisbane start tomorrow!!!

Just one day to go now until Brisbane joins the 787 club. VH-VKA has the honours and will arrive from Denpasar-Bali at 0655 as JQ46. She will return to Bali at 0845 as JQ47. This service will operate on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Jetstar announce BNE-HNL flights

Jetstar have recently announced a second international service to start out of Brisbane. The airline will launch a twice weekly (3x weekly in peak) service to Honolulu with Airbus A330-200s. With the A332s gradually being returned to Qantas, this means we will eventually see the airlines Boeing 787-8's on this flight.

JQ6 will depart Honolulu on Mondays and Thursdays  at 08:45, arriving into Brisbane on Tuesdays and Fridays at 14:30. The return service, JQ5 will depart Brisbane at 16:25 on Tuesdays and Fridays, arriving into Honolulu at 06:00 on the same day. The third weekly peak season service will depart Honolulu and Brisbane on Sundays.


This news comes as Hawaiian Airlines adds a fourth weekly service to Brisbane. The airline continues to operate Boeing 767-300ERs on the route.


One week to go! Jetstar 787s to Brisbane!

Well it's just one week today until Brisbane joins the 787 club! This time next week Jetstar will launch a new four times weekly service non-stop from Denpasar-Bali (Thursday, 17 April).

JQ46 will arrive at 06:55 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and JQ47 will depart back to DPS at 08:45 on the same days.

Jetstar currently have three Boeing 787-8's in their fleet with another eleven on order.


VH-VKA departing OOL


VH-VKB departing SYD


VH-VKD arriving into SYD


One of the massive, but extremely quiet GEnx engines on the 787.


The Jetstar dreamliners are configured with 21 business class seats (3 rows, 2x3x2)......


......and 314 economy seats (3x3x3 configuration).


All seats have personal IFE screens.



Wing-views on the 787-8


The advanced cockpit in the 787!

Myself and many other plane spotters will be out to see this stunning aircraft arrive next Thursday!