Oldbar Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 [img width=1160 height=615]http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9480/cairns7772.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Fine couple of shots really like the last one. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurdy Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 pity they never got any.. they are a nice plane.... flown on them many a time with SIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 @Gurdy perhaps it´s not that bad after all. This Christmas I was flying from Franfurt to visit the family in Dublin. After Lufthansa finally managed to find a plane and a crew (Frankfurt had been closed down and re-opened on a fantastically irregular "schedule" due to quite some amounts of snow, so nothing or no-one was where they should have been) the pilot came through just as we were descending into Dublin to tell us that the airport (and all other Irish ones along with it) was closed due to hevy snowfall. So we diverted to Birmingham and even had to declare an emergency, as Birmingham was officially also closed. But the pilot said he did not have enough fuel to head on to Manchester (which - in any case - was closed as well). Come to think of it, he was quite an outspoken type... Anyway - we were parked out on the apron for more than three hours, because there were no groundhandling crews. Eventually they managed to find a refuelling truck and topped up the tanks (while all passangers were still on board!) - but we couldn´t leave, as a (and now back to the main reason for this story) fully loaded and freshly tanked Emirates 777 that had been diverted from Heathrow and was now on its way to somewhere else) had slid off the taxiway and managed to get itself bogged down in the adjacent grass =) So: 777 OK, but please only at big airports Cheers Mallard PS we actually managed to get to Ireland eventually - and now I know where the airport in Cork is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan2 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 you were lucky that Cairns was not under water - snow , water it's everywhere at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurdy Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 @Gurdy perhaps it´s not that bad after all. This Christmas I was flying from Franfurt to visit the family in Dublin. After Lufthansa finally managed to find a plane and a crew (Frankfurt had been closed down and re-opened on a fantastically irregular "schedule" due to quite some amounts of snow, so nothing or no-one was where they should have been) the pilot came through just as we were descending into Dublin to tell us that the airport (and all other Irish ones along with it) was closed due to hevy snowfall. So we diverted to Birmingham and even had to declare an emergency, as Birmingham was officially also closed. But the pilot said he did not have enough fuel to head on to Manchester (which - in any case - was closed as well). Come to think of it, he was quite an outspoken type... Anyway - we were parked out on the apron for more than three hours, because there were no groundhandling crews. Eventually they managed to find a refuelling truck and topped up the tanks (while all passangers were still on board!) - but we couldn´t leave, as a (and now back to the main reason for this story) fully loaded and freshly tanked Emirates 777 that had been diverted from Heathrow and was now on its way to somewhere else) had slid off the taxiway and managed to get itself bogged down in the adjacent grass =) So: 777 OK, but please only at big airports Cheers Mallard PS we actually managed to get to Ireland eventually - and now I know where the airport in Cork is After seeing an A380 land at Avalon, I would think a 777 could go anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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