Sichuan Airlines is the latest Chinese operator to commence scheduled services to Auckland entering the market 13 June with a thrice-weekly service from Sichuan Province capital city Chengdu.
The airline, founded in 1986, operate a fleet of 123 Airbus family aircraft of with 6 are the ever popular Airbus A330-200 configured with 36 business class and 209 economy class seats. The first service was flown by their most recently delivered Airbus A330-200 B-8962 with it delivered to Chengdu on 21 April this year.
Operating on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 3U8909 is scheduled to arrive Auckland at 1845 and 3U8910 departs at 2010 so we'll have to wait until late September when daylight savings returns to normally grab photos of these visitors!
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| Ho hum shot of the first visit about to line up for departure. |
