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20th July 2020, 05:12 AM
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Its all very quiet down here too.
Being in Melbourne, we're not under many flightpaths, other than Auckland-(Perth)-Johannesburg, but we used to have a regular array of flights come over our place usually ML to Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, LA, Sydney, Canberra, and a few other bits and bobs depending on winds and SID (Standard Instrument Departure) routes. We see hardly anything now. Qantas sent it's last 747-400 on an East Coast goodbye visit this week and was selling tickets for Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra (but not Melbourne, see below) joy flights. These were classed as commercial flights, so me and my mate (a Qantas LAME) were speculating that if the Mojave mothballed A380s don't return to service with Qantas (Which is possible, depending what happens post-Covid), the 747 will have outlasted it in Qantas commercial service! Wouldnt that be an irony! We were supposed to have restrictions ease a bit this month, with Qantas to restart normal domestic operations at about 30% capacity. But as Melbourne has returned into stage 3 Covid restrictions following a major outbreak (2nd wave If you like, except it was totally preventable), the flights haven't returned down here (outside of freight/postal/essential services). Sydney is also experiencing a couple of outbreaks, so they may need to reimpose restrictions too. Meanwhile, we're just waiting for numbers to drop again...
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20th July 2020, 08:19 AM
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BA has also (finally) retired all it's 747s too. We still see the odd cargo 747 coming out of Heathrow as they're still quite low over us if turning to head East.
The others I spot are usually flying over high between Europe and North America. The really high 747s (up around 40,000 ft) are very easy to identify as the 4-engine contrail (when conditions create one) is totally obvious.
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