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Cathay Pacific return to Hobart for the 2021/22 summer season

Hong Kong’s flag carrier has resumed the service for the summer, with new aircraft After the success of the flights over the 2020/2021 summer season, Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific have resumed the service via Melbourne for the 2021/2022 summer. with at least 35 flights up to January 31st to be operated in conjunction with […]

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Photos

(Almost) Everything I’ve photographed at Hobart Airport

Every airline, livery, and aircraft I’ve photographed at HBA Although I do intend to do a complete run down of all of Hobart’s Covid related special visitors at a later date, this post will be more of a personal record of my sightings at Hobart. As such, I have included some lower quality photos from […]

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History

A History of International Flights to Hobart

From TAA to Cathay, a comprehensive history With the announcement that Air New Zealand will start flying to Hobart again in mid April, after a 23 year hiatus, I thought it would be a good idea to take a deep dive into the history of scheduled international flights to Hobart Airport. The vast majority of […]

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Miscellaneous

Q&A with a Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 pilot

The ins and outs of flying the Triple Seven into Hobart With Cathay Pacific’s Boeing 777 cargo charters into Hobart all but finished up now, I had the opportunity to talk about flying down here during the pandemic with one of the pilots that had the opportunity to operate these flights back in January. The […]

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Photos Spotting

YMHB Spotting 2021 Week 2

Settling into the new normal at HBA Despite the absence of any particularly unusual arrivals this week, I still managed to photograph five aircraft I haven’t had the opportunity to before, as well as finally getting to see a QantasFreight departure! Formerly Virgin Samoa’s sole aircraft, from March 2015, to the end of the airline […]

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Photos Spotting

YMHB Spotting update 23/12/20

The first Cathay flight and another Dreamliner! Now I have finally finished school for the year, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to head down to the airport to catch some of the special visitors, and normal arrivals we’ve had in this past week! Just after publishing last week’s spotting update, I was off to the […]