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Spotting Report: A Couple of Days at Sapporo New Chitose Airport and Chitose Airbase

Spotting Report: A Couple of Days at Sapporo New Chitose Airport and Chitose Airbase

The main target of a spotting trip to Sapporo I took with a couple of friends last month was catching the Japan Air Self-Defense Force 747 on one of its training flights. And, of course, also getting some sunny shots with snow of some of the regular civil traffic. Day 1: Off to a Good […]

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Crazy Missed Approach During a Training Flight at Nagoya Centrair Today

Crazy Missed Approach During a Training Flight at Nagoya Centrair Today

I will write about this trip in detail later, once I catch up with my backlog of reports from spotting trips to Sapporo and Phuket that I took in March. But, I wanted to post briefly about a short morning spotting session I did at Nagoya Centrair airport. The weather was unfortunately cloudy, but I

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Your Itinerary Has Been Changed... You Will Arrive 25 Hours Later.

Your Itinerary (on a Domestic Route with 20 Daily Flights) Has Been Changed… You Will Arrive 25 Hours Late.

In about a month, I have a trip to Canada coming up thanks to a pair of “excellent” (read error) fares from Paris to Toronto and Paris to Vancouver. With the trip being right around the corner, I was dealing with reserving hotels, and so on this week. Yesterday, I was about to book three

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Flight Review: JAL 777-300 Class J from Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo CTS

Review: JAL 777-300 Class J from Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo CTS

Flight Information Date: February 28, 2018 Flight No.: JL503 Route: Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo New Chitose Airline: JAL Japan Airlines Type: Boeing 777-300 Registration: JA8944 My spotting trip to Sapporo at the end of February begun with a flight from Tokyo Haneda to New Chitose airport with Japan Airlines. The flight was operated by one of JAL’s

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Trip Preview: Another Snowy Spotting Trip to Sapporo New Chitose Airport

Trip Preview: Another Snowy Spotting Trip to Sapporo New Chitose Airport

With all of the articles about the trip I took to New York back in mid-February out, it’s time to continue catching up with the trip reports that I am slightly falling behind on. And, the next in line is a series of reports about my late February, early March spotting trip to Sapporo. Another

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Mandarin Airlines to Launch Taichung - Tokyo Narita Route in June 2018

Mandarin Airlines to Launch Taichung – Tokyo Narita Route in June 2018

A couple of days ago, Mandarin Airlines announced that it would start direct flights between Taichung in Taiwan and Tokyo Narita airport in Japan in June 2018. AE266/267: Taichung – Tokyo Narita and Back Flights between the two cities will start operating on June 14, and will operate daily with the following schedule: AE266 from

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Flight Review: Cathay Dragon A330-300 Economy Class from Hanoi to Hong Kong

Flight Review: Cathay Dragon A330-300 Economy Class from Hanoi to Hong Kong

Flight Information Date: February 15, 2018 Flight No.: KA294 Route: Hanoi Noi Bai to Hong Kong International Airline: Cathay Dragon (Dragonair) Type: Airbus A330-300 Registration: B-LBD With the last Qatar Airways flight of my trip to New York, it was time to head back to Japan – but not before stopping in Hong Kong for a couple

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