Post by mick on Dec 9, 2017 19:19:04 GMT
This is a report from my trip to Taiwan, Hong Kong Brisbane and Sydney. We were going to Taichung for my sons wedding and thought that we would make a holiday of it by dropping down to Sydney and visiting my nephew. (Also catching a bit of Ashes cricket at the Gabba)
At about 1130 on Wednesday, 8 November, we left Heathrow on B-KQI Boeing B.777 367ER of Cathay Pacific for our eleven and a half hour flight to Hong Kong, arriving at about 7am local time.
We had a stop over of and hour at Hong Kong before getting our connecting flight to Taoyuan airport Taipei
During the stop over the following were logged from the brilliant airside terminal before taking B-HSM Airbus A320 of Cathay Dragon for the 1 hour 15 min flight to Taipei.
Thursday, 9 November, 2017 Hong Kong
9V-SRM Boeing B.777 212ER 32320 Singapore Airlines
B-16218 Airbus A321 211 6653 EVA Air
B-18353 Airbus A330 302 920 China Airlines
B-18653 Boeing B.737NG 8Q8 41788 China Airlines
B-18710 Boeing B.747 409F 30767 China Airlines
B-5423 Boeing B.737NG 89L 36742 Air China
B-HKX Boeing B.747 412BCF 26557 Air Hong Kong
B-HLK Airbus A330 342 17 Cathay Dragon
B-HLQ Airbus A330 343X 420 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLR Airbus A330 343X 421 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLU Airbus A330 343X 539 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLV Airbus A330 343X 548 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNC Boeing B.777 267 27263 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNQ Boeing B.777 367 34244 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HSD Airbus A320 232 756 Cathay Dragon
B-HSE Airbus A320 232 784 Cathay Dragon
B-HSI Airbus A320 232 930 Cathay Dragon
B-HSL Airbus A320 232 2229 Cathay Dragon
B-HSM Airbus A320 232 2238 Cathay Dragon
B-HSO Airbus A320 232 4023 Cathay Dragon
B-HSR Airbus A320 232 5030 Cathay Dragon
B-HTF Airbus A321 231 633 Cathay Dragon
B-HTG Airbus A321 231 1695 Cathay Dragon
B-HTJ Airbus A321 231 3369 Cathay Dragon
B-HTK Airbus A321 231 3669 Cathay Dragon
B-HYI Airbus A330 343X 479 Cathay Dragon
B-KPP Boeing B.777 367ER 36164 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LAB Airbus A330 343E 673 Cathay Dragon
B-LAL Airbus A330 343E 1222 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LBE Airbus A330 343E 1523 Cathay Dragon
B-LCI Airbus A320 232 4445 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEE Airbus A321 231 7821 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEF Airbus A321 231 7831 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LNP Airbus A330 343E 1398 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNS Airbus A330 343E 1105 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNT Airbus A330 343E 1107 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNY Airbus A330 243F 1062 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPO Airbus A320 214 6776 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LRF Airbus A350 941 46 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LRJ Airbus A350 941 61 Cathay Pacific Airways
ER-BBJ Boeing B.747 412F 26558 Aerotrans Cargo
HS-STC Boeing B.747 412 26548 Orient Thai Airlines
JA617A Boeing B.767 381ER 37719 All Nippon Airways
N167AD Gulfstream Aerospace G450 4197 TAG Aviation Asia
PK-GMY Boeing B.737NG 8U3 38884 Garuda Indonesia
VT-ANG Boeing B.787 8 36275 Air India
Thursday, 9 November, 2017 Taipei
At Taipei the following were logged before spending an hour queuing to get through immigration!
B-18719 Boeing B.747 409F 33739 China Airlines
B-28025 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 53602 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28027 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 53603 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-50003 Airbus A320 232 4804 Tigerair Taiwan
B-6971 Airbus A320 214 5434 Spring Airlines
HS-STB Boeing B.747 441 24956 Orient Thai Airlines (Stored)
Whilst in Taipei we did the touristy stuff including going up Taipei 101 ( Until recently was the tallest building in the world.) From the top of here you could see the city airport of Songshan. Taoyuan is like Heathrow on the outskirts of the city. But with the assistance of Plane finder play back saw the following take off/land at Songshan.
Friday, 10 November, 2017 Songshan Taipei
B-17007 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1111 Uni Air
B-18663 Boeing B.737NG 800 61772 China Airlines
B-6698 Boeing B.737NG 89P 41489 Shanghai Airlines
During a bit of downtime I thought I would pay a visit to Songshan itself which happened to be a few stops along the metro. I knew there was viewing area however I got there about 8am to find it didn’t open until 9! Bugger. The weather this day was a bit gloomy but very humid so I grabbed a Maccy D’s brekkie from an ajoining street before doing a bit of spotting from the top of a multi storey car park. The Police actually arrived in a car whilst I was there. My heart started pounding but it transpired they were having a meal break and actually just acknowledged and nodded at me.
At 9 I made my way to the free viewing terrace accessed through the terminal and spent a few hours here. Fortunately the area is covered as the weather was pretty poor. There is a coffee shop here and toilets.
As you would expect its quieter than Taoyuan, but there is stuff here you wouldn’t find at Taipei,s main airport (Bit like London City to Heathrow) There was a military presence but a lot of it went unidentified as with the biz jets as they were face on rendering them unidentifiable.
This is what I did identify. The Tans Asia ATR,s are stored I think
Saturday, 11 November, 2017 Songshan Taipei
5003 Fokker F.50 050 20242 Republic of China Air Force (Another one was present but I don’t know which one!)
9V-JSR Airbus A320 232 5433 Jetstar Asia Airways
9V-SSA Airbus A330 343E 1485 Singapore Airlines
B-16202 Airbus A321 211 5328 EVA Air
B-16203 Airbus A321 211 5377 EVA Air
B-16209 Airbus A321 211 6042 Uni Air
B-16221 Airbus A321 211 6935 EVA Air
B-16337 Airbus A330 302 1767 EVA Air
B-16827 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000182 Mandarin Airlines
B-16829 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000302 Mandarin Airlines
B-17001 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1044 Uni Air
B-17002 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1061 Uni Air
B-17003 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1078 Uni Air
B-17005 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1090 Uni Air
B-17007 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1111 Uni Air
B-17015 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1240 Uni Air
B-18306 Airbus A330 302 675 China Airlines
B-22815 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1133 TransAsia Airways
B-22820 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1222 TransAsia Airways
B-22821 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1251 TransAsia Airways
B-28007 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 49807 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28011 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 82 53118 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28017 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 82 53166 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28066 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1171 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-5411 Boeing B.737NG 87L 35532 Shenzhen Airlines
B-55411 Airbus ACJ318 112 Elite 3886 Business Flight
B-68808 Britten-Norman Islander BN-2T R2302 Corporate
B-90609 Gulfstream Aerospace G550 5300 Win Air Business Jet
JA652J Boeing B.767 346ER 40364 Japan Airlines
RP-C5988 Israel Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind 254 LionAir Inc
T7-LRW Bombardier Global 5000 9315 Empire Aviation San Marino
We caught the bullet train to Taichung (Probably Taiwan's second city) for the wedding and stayed here and in the mountains (Alishan) for the next week or so.
During this time in the Campaign Memorial Park next to our apartment in Taichung, were a number of tanks and two fighter jets :- 4193 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter TF-104G 5775 Republic of China Air Force and 5283 Northrop F-5 Tiger II F-5E VG.1010 Republic of China Air Force.
Totally amazed by this and not aware until I stumbled on them when walking through the park.
Craving for some western food, on Saturday, 18 November we left Taichung for our trip to Sydney. We caught B-LCJ Airbus A320 of Hong Kong Express for our short hop to Hong Kong and our connecting flight.
The following were logged at Taichung International. Again its not the busiest, but a lovely little airport. (For comfort and ease probably the best we encountered on our trip.)The terminal is probably the size of Luton without the Biz. You could see the aircraft at the gates, but not the runways. The views are not great because they taxi out of sight. However when we taxied out, the vastness of the airport was seen and a large military airfield was attached. You could not see this from the terminal
There were loads of military fighter jets in the covered bunkers. None were identified. The only thing I did identify was 2722 a stored 727 of the Republic of China Air Force. (Found this out through a Google search) Saw this as we taxied in a corner of the airfield.
Hong Kong Express were fine as a “No Frills” Airline and similar in service to Easy Jet and Ryan Air.
Incidentally there are a massive amount of flights between Taiwan and Hong Kong. We did four trips on this route and every single one was full to the rafters. China Airlines use a variety of aircraft on this route including A 350's and 747's. Cathay use their A350's as well. Having seen Eva at Hong Kong, although not witnessed, I suspect they do likewise. Quite formidable load factors considering the political situation between Taiwan and mainland China.
Saturday, 18 November, 2017 Taichung
Reg/Code Type C/n Airline/Operator/Owner
2722 Boeing B.727 109 19520 Republic of China Air Force
B-16212 Airbus A321 211 6276 EVA Air
B-16222 Airbus A321 211 6999 EVA Air
B-16821 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000087 Mandarin Airlines
B-16823 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000099 Mandarin Airlines
B-16828 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000190 Mandarin Airlines
B-16829 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000302 Mandarin Airlines
B-17011 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1163 Uni Air
B-17013 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1183 Uni Air
B-18617 Boeing B.737NG 809 29106 China Airlines
B-28068 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1110 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-50003 Airbus A320 232 4804 Tigerair Taiwan
B-69832 Britten-Norman Islander BN-2A-26 2039 Formosa Airlines
B-HTE Airbus A321 231 1024 Cathay Dragon
B-LCJ Airbus A320 232 Hong Kong Express
So we were at Hong Kong for a couple of hours and despite it being dark, I logged a few and after a tasty western meal and a few beers we took our flight to Sydney.
We departed about 10pm for the 9 hour slog on B-LAE Airbus A330 of Cathay Pacific Airways, arriving at Sydney around 7am Local time.
Saturday, 18 November, 2017 Hong Kong
A6-EUP Airbus A380 842 228 Emirates Airline
B-1738 Boeing B.737NG 89L 41325 Air China
B-5422 Boeing B.737NG 89L 36741 Air China
B-5519 Boeing B.737NG 86N 36802 Air China
B-6011 Airbus A320 214 2235 China Eastern Airlines
B-6561 Airbus A320 214 3819 Spring Airlines
B-HLI Airbus A330 342 155 Cathay Dragon
B-HLL Airbus A330 343E 244 Cathay Dragon
B-HLM Airbus A330 343X 386 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNI Boeing B.777 367 27508 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HSP Airbus A320 232 4247 Cathay Dragon
B-HST Airbus A320 232 5362 Cathay Dragon
B-LAE Airbus A330 343E 850 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LCH Airbus A320 232 4181 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEA Airbus A321 231 7363 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LGA Airbus A350 941 124 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNR Airbus A330 343E 1099 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNU Airbus A330 343E 1124 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPM Airbus A320 214 6246 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPP Airbus A320 214 7035 Hong Kong Airlines
DQ-FJU Airbus A330 243 1416 Fiji Airways
EI-DFS Boeing B.767 33AER 25346 Transaero Airlines
HS-TBD Airbus A330 343E 1338 Thai Airways International
JA08VA Airbus A320 214 6447 Vanilla Air
VH-QPJ Airbus A330 303 712 QANTAS
All logs compiled with thanks to ADU
If your out that way Taiwan is a great place (Although the food is a bit iffy, my personal opinion of course.) The people are really friendly and in my opinion much more so than the hoards of Chinese visitors who I found rude and generally horrible.
Will definitely return one day.
I will post the Oz part of the trip later.
Hopefully an insight to spotting over there and if anyone wants any info please feel free to contact me.
Regards Mick
At about 1130 on Wednesday, 8 November, we left Heathrow on B-KQI Boeing B.777 367ER of Cathay Pacific for our eleven and a half hour flight to Hong Kong, arriving at about 7am local time.
We had a stop over of and hour at Hong Kong before getting our connecting flight to Taoyuan airport Taipei
During the stop over the following were logged from the brilliant airside terminal before taking B-HSM Airbus A320 of Cathay Dragon for the 1 hour 15 min flight to Taipei.
Thursday, 9 November, 2017 Hong Kong
9V-SRM Boeing B.777 212ER 32320 Singapore Airlines
B-16218 Airbus A321 211 6653 EVA Air
B-18353 Airbus A330 302 920 China Airlines
B-18653 Boeing B.737NG 8Q8 41788 China Airlines
B-18710 Boeing B.747 409F 30767 China Airlines
B-5423 Boeing B.737NG 89L 36742 Air China
B-HKX Boeing B.747 412BCF 26557 Air Hong Kong
B-HLK Airbus A330 342 17 Cathay Dragon
B-HLQ Airbus A330 343X 420 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLR Airbus A330 343X 421 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLU Airbus A330 343X 539 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HLV Airbus A330 343X 548 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNC Boeing B.777 267 27263 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNQ Boeing B.777 367 34244 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HSD Airbus A320 232 756 Cathay Dragon
B-HSE Airbus A320 232 784 Cathay Dragon
B-HSI Airbus A320 232 930 Cathay Dragon
B-HSL Airbus A320 232 2229 Cathay Dragon
B-HSM Airbus A320 232 2238 Cathay Dragon
B-HSO Airbus A320 232 4023 Cathay Dragon
B-HSR Airbus A320 232 5030 Cathay Dragon
B-HTF Airbus A321 231 633 Cathay Dragon
B-HTG Airbus A321 231 1695 Cathay Dragon
B-HTJ Airbus A321 231 3369 Cathay Dragon
B-HTK Airbus A321 231 3669 Cathay Dragon
B-HYI Airbus A330 343X 479 Cathay Dragon
B-KPP Boeing B.777 367ER 36164 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LAB Airbus A330 343E 673 Cathay Dragon
B-LAL Airbus A330 343E 1222 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LBE Airbus A330 343E 1523 Cathay Dragon
B-LCI Airbus A320 232 4445 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEE Airbus A321 231 7821 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEF Airbus A321 231 7831 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LNP Airbus A330 343E 1398 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNS Airbus A330 343E 1105 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNT Airbus A330 343E 1107 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNY Airbus A330 243F 1062 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPO Airbus A320 214 6776 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LRF Airbus A350 941 46 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LRJ Airbus A350 941 61 Cathay Pacific Airways
ER-BBJ Boeing B.747 412F 26558 Aerotrans Cargo
HS-STC Boeing B.747 412 26548 Orient Thai Airlines
JA617A Boeing B.767 381ER 37719 All Nippon Airways
N167AD Gulfstream Aerospace G450 4197 TAG Aviation Asia
PK-GMY Boeing B.737NG 8U3 38884 Garuda Indonesia
VT-ANG Boeing B.787 8 36275 Air India
Thursday, 9 November, 2017 Taipei
At Taipei the following were logged before spending an hour queuing to get through immigration!
B-18719 Boeing B.747 409F 33739 China Airlines
B-28025 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 53602 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28027 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 53603 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-50003 Airbus A320 232 4804 Tigerair Taiwan
B-6971 Airbus A320 214 5434 Spring Airlines
HS-STB Boeing B.747 441 24956 Orient Thai Airlines (Stored)
Whilst in Taipei we did the touristy stuff including going up Taipei 101 ( Until recently was the tallest building in the world.) From the top of here you could see the city airport of Songshan. Taoyuan is like Heathrow on the outskirts of the city. But with the assistance of Plane finder play back saw the following take off/land at Songshan.
Friday, 10 November, 2017 Songshan Taipei
B-17007 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1111 Uni Air
B-18663 Boeing B.737NG 800 61772 China Airlines
B-6698 Boeing B.737NG 89P 41489 Shanghai Airlines
During a bit of downtime I thought I would pay a visit to Songshan itself which happened to be a few stops along the metro. I knew there was viewing area however I got there about 8am to find it didn’t open until 9! Bugger. The weather this day was a bit gloomy but very humid so I grabbed a Maccy D’s brekkie from an ajoining street before doing a bit of spotting from the top of a multi storey car park. The Police actually arrived in a car whilst I was there. My heart started pounding but it transpired they were having a meal break and actually just acknowledged and nodded at me.
At 9 I made my way to the free viewing terrace accessed through the terminal and spent a few hours here. Fortunately the area is covered as the weather was pretty poor. There is a coffee shop here and toilets.
As you would expect its quieter than Taoyuan, but there is stuff here you wouldn’t find at Taipei,s main airport (Bit like London City to Heathrow) There was a military presence but a lot of it went unidentified as with the biz jets as they were face on rendering them unidentifiable.
This is what I did identify. The Tans Asia ATR,s are stored I think
Saturday, 11 November, 2017 Songshan Taipei
5003 Fokker F.50 050 20242 Republic of China Air Force (Another one was present but I don’t know which one!)
9V-JSR Airbus A320 232 5433 Jetstar Asia Airways
9V-SSA Airbus A330 343E 1485 Singapore Airlines
B-16202 Airbus A321 211 5328 EVA Air
B-16203 Airbus A321 211 5377 EVA Air
B-16209 Airbus A321 211 6042 Uni Air
B-16221 Airbus A321 211 6935 EVA Air
B-16337 Airbus A330 302 1767 EVA Air
B-16827 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000182 Mandarin Airlines
B-16829 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000302 Mandarin Airlines
B-17001 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1044 Uni Air
B-17002 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1061 Uni Air
B-17003 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1078 Uni Air
B-17005 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1090 Uni Air
B-17007 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1111 Uni Air
B-17015 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1240 Uni Air
B-18306 Airbus A330 302 675 China Airlines
B-22815 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1133 TransAsia Airways
B-22820 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1222 TransAsia Airways
B-22821 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1251 TransAsia Airways
B-28007 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 83 49807 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28011 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 82 53118 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28017 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 82 53166 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-28066 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1171 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-5411 Boeing B.737NG 87L 35532 Shenzhen Airlines
B-55411 Airbus ACJ318 112 Elite 3886 Business Flight
B-68808 Britten-Norman Islander BN-2T R2302 Corporate
B-90609 Gulfstream Aerospace G550 5300 Win Air Business Jet
JA652J Boeing B.767 346ER 40364 Japan Airlines
RP-C5988 Israel Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind 254 LionAir Inc
T7-LRW Bombardier Global 5000 9315 Empire Aviation San Marino
We caught the bullet train to Taichung (Probably Taiwan's second city) for the wedding and stayed here and in the mountains (Alishan) for the next week or so.
During this time in the Campaign Memorial Park next to our apartment in Taichung, were a number of tanks and two fighter jets :- 4193 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter TF-104G 5775 Republic of China Air Force and 5283 Northrop F-5 Tiger II F-5E VG.1010 Republic of China Air Force.
Totally amazed by this and not aware until I stumbled on them when walking through the park.
Craving for some western food, on Saturday, 18 November we left Taichung for our trip to Sydney. We caught B-LCJ Airbus A320 of Hong Kong Express for our short hop to Hong Kong and our connecting flight.
The following were logged at Taichung International. Again its not the busiest, but a lovely little airport. (For comfort and ease probably the best we encountered on our trip.)The terminal is probably the size of Luton without the Biz. You could see the aircraft at the gates, but not the runways. The views are not great because they taxi out of sight. However when we taxied out, the vastness of the airport was seen and a large military airfield was attached. You could not see this from the terminal
There were loads of military fighter jets in the covered bunkers. None were identified. The only thing I did identify was 2722 a stored 727 of the Republic of China Air Force. (Found this out through a Google search) Saw this as we taxied in a corner of the airfield.
Hong Kong Express were fine as a “No Frills” Airline and similar in service to Easy Jet and Ryan Air.
Incidentally there are a massive amount of flights between Taiwan and Hong Kong. We did four trips on this route and every single one was full to the rafters. China Airlines use a variety of aircraft on this route including A 350's and 747's. Cathay use their A350's as well. Having seen Eva at Hong Kong, although not witnessed, I suspect they do likewise. Quite formidable load factors considering the political situation between Taiwan and mainland China.
Saturday, 18 November, 2017 Taichung
Reg/Code Type C/n Airline/Operator/Owner
2722 Boeing B.727 109 19520 Republic of China Air Force
B-16212 Airbus A321 211 6276 EVA Air
B-16222 Airbus A321 211 6999 EVA Air
B-16821 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000087 Mandarin Airlines
B-16823 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000099 Mandarin Airlines
B-16828 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000190 Mandarin Airlines
B-16829 Embraer ERJ-190 AR 19000302 Mandarin Airlines
B-17011 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1163 Uni Air
B-17013 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1183 Uni Air
B-18617 Boeing B.737NG 809 29106 China Airlines
B-28068 Avions de Transport Regional ATR 72 212A (600) 1110 Far Eastern Air Transport
B-50003 Airbus A320 232 4804 Tigerair Taiwan
B-69832 Britten-Norman Islander BN-2A-26 2039 Formosa Airlines
B-HTE Airbus A321 231 1024 Cathay Dragon
B-LCJ Airbus A320 232 Hong Kong Express
So we were at Hong Kong for a couple of hours and despite it being dark, I logged a few and after a tasty western meal and a few beers we took our flight to Sydney.
We departed about 10pm for the 9 hour slog on B-LAE Airbus A330 of Cathay Pacific Airways, arriving at Sydney around 7am Local time.
Saturday, 18 November, 2017 Hong Kong
A6-EUP Airbus A380 842 228 Emirates Airline
B-1738 Boeing B.737NG 89L 41325 Air China
B-5422 Boeing B.737NG 89L 36741 Air China
B-5519 Boeing B.737NG 86N 36802 Air China
B-6011 Airbus A320 214 2235 China Eastern Airlines
B-6561 Airbus A320 214 3819 Spring Airlines
B-HLI Airbus A330 342 155 Cathay Dragon
B-HLL Airbus A330 343E 244 Cathay Dragon
B-HLM Airbus A330 343X 386 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HNI Boeing B.777 367 27508 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-HSP Airbus A320 232 4247 Cathay Dragon
B-HST Airbus A320 232 5362 Cathay Dragon
B-LAE Airbus A330 343E 850 Cathay Pacific Airways
B-LCH Airbus A320 232 4181 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LEA Airbus A321 231 7363 Hong Kong Express Airways
B-LGA Airbus A350 941 124 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNR Airbus A330 343E 1099 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LNU Airbus A330 343E 1124 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPM Airbus A320 214 6246 Hong Kong Airlines
B-LPP Airbus A320 214 7035 Hong Kong Airlines
DQ-FJU Airbus A330 243 1416 Fiji Airways
EI-DFS Boeing B.767 33AER 25346 Transaero Airlines
HS-TBD Airbus A330 343E 1338 Thai Airways International
JA08VA Airbus A320 214 6447 Vanilla Air
VH-QPJ Airbus A330 303 712 QANTAS
All logs compiled with thanks to ADU
If your out that way Taiwan is a great place (Although the food is a bit iffy, my personal opinion of course.) The people are really friendly and in my opinion much more so than the hoards of Chinese visitors who I found rude and generally horrible.
Will definitely return one day.
I will post the Oz part of the trip later.
Hopefully an insight to spotting over there and if anyone wants any info please feel free to contact me.
Regards Mick
