First Singapore Airlines A350-900 In Adelaide

Today, 18th December 2018, The Inaugural Singapore Airlines A350-900 landed in Adelaide. This service was Singapore Airlines’ A350-900 medium haul aircrafts first scheduled service. More info one the Singapore Airlines Adelaide flight in the Farewell Singapore A330 post below. Today’s inaugural service was served by 9V-SHB and touched down in Adelaide at 8:13am Adelaide time (52 minutes before schedule) after a 5h 52 minute flight. The flight was welcomed with a water canon salute unlike yesterday’s Fiji Airways 737 MAX Inaugural. Landing photos have been taken by me and are copyright. Water canon photo is property of Adelaide Airport Instagram.

First Fiji Airways 737 MAX 8 in Australia - DQ-FAB First Commercial Flight

Today, December 17 2018, Fiji Airways brought their first Boeing 737 MAX 8 to Adelaide. Fiji Airways have received their first 737 MAX two weeks ago and today, it had it’s very first commercial flight. This flight was significant for many reasons, it was the first 737 MAX in Adelaide and the first Fiji 737 MAX in Australia! Previous to Fiji Airways new operations, Darwin and Cairns were the only cities in Australia to have the 737 MAX land there with Silkair servicing flights from Singapore.  This was also DQ-FAB (Fiji’s first 737 MAX) first commercial flight with previous flights only being test flights and delivery flights. Unfortunately there was no water canon salute for this occasion.

Adelaide Farewells Singapore Airlines Airbus A330

Singapore Airlines have been operating their Airbus A330-343 aircraft to Adelaide on their daily SQ278/279 flight from Singapore to Adelaide and return for a very long time now! Sadly, the reliable old A330s time on the SIN-ADL route is now coming to an end as the A330s are being replaced by newer, more efficiant and luxurious Airbus A350-941 aircraft. From the 18th December 2018, SIA will start servicing A350s to Adelaide. Today, 17th December 2018 was the last Singapore Airlines A330 service to Adelaide on the SQ278/279 route. From February 2019, Singapore Airlines will start a seasonal 3 times weekly additional service which will be serviced by Singapore’s A330s.

Qantas Freight Boeing 737 Services to Adelaide

On 10th December 2018, Qantas Freight restarted Boeing 737-300F services to Adelaide. Previous to 737 operations, Qantas Freight operated BAe-146-300 freighters to Adelaide along side VA Freight BAe-146-200F, Toll Priority 737-400F and MASkargo A330-200F. From now, Qantas Freight will operate a once daily service to Adelaide on top of the BAe-146 services. The aircraft is scheduled to arrive from Sydney at 12:05am as QF 7398 and head out to Perth as QF 7399 at 1:30am. The inaugural service was operated by VH-XMB, a 32.5 year old Boeing 737-376 (SF).