A pleasant 20 minutes spent at the fenceline of Auckland International Airport on a glorious autumn afternoon netted a handful of movements 22 May.
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| Qantas mainline Boeing 737-800's are a common sight through NZ now as the carrier supplements the Jetconnect operation. Here VH-XZE departs for Sydney as QFA144. |
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| Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 ZK-NZH crosses the numbers as it arrives from Shanghai as ANZ286. |
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| Skyline's snazzy Beech King Air 350 ZK-SSH arrives from Nadi - its first trip away to the Pacific Islands. It had departed Auckland for Nadi 21 May then flew to Funafuti and back 22 May. |
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| Eastern Australia / Jetstar Regional Dash 8-300 VH-SBW arrives. |
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| Life Flight Jetstream 32 ZK-LFT taxis to Charlie One for either a patient dropoff or pickup. I've yet to catch up with their second example, ZK-LFW, but perhaps its not in service yet. |
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| Wet leased to Qantas is the Atlas Air Boeing 747-400 freighter N409MC seen here arriving as QF7552 from Honolulu and running about 4 hours late. |
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| "Rockstar Two" Global Express N2020Q floats down runway 23L with a slight tailwind having cruised down from Tokyo/Haneda. |
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| Cathay Pacific's Airbus A350 B-LRM heads to the holding point for runway 23L. |
