A reader from Brisbane emailed me yesterday about an E190 that flew over his house yesterday. Flightradar24 suggested the flight had flown 11+ hours nonstop from Honolulu, and the reader wanted to know if that was even possible.
Continue reading: An Embraer E190’s 21+ Hour Journey To Australia
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Lucky, Alliance is used by a majority of major mining clients as charter to service the FIFO (fly in fly out) mining sector here in Aus.
FlightAware and similar classical websites that ingest FAA flight plans (and maybe Australian too) can probably show the MAJ/PKMJ stop without ADS-B data.
Qantas had announced early last month (4 Feb) that they were going to start using Alliance E190s on a range of lower density routes in coming months, and it would eventually involve up to 14 of them.
https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-group-targets-domestic-growth-with-alliance-airlines-capacity-deal/
It is such a beautiful and comfortable jet with the 2 x 2 seat configuration where every passenger gets either a window or aisle seat. I don't know why this airframe is not more successful here in North America.
Ben, these are some of my favorite posts outside of trip reviews. Can you do one about a Qatar G6 that went from Perth to Honolulu the other day? I can’t find a reason why it would do a route like that! Thanks
Some years ago I was involved in positioning a Twin Otter from Calgary to Tbilisi.
Route was YYC YYQ YFB UAQ RKV WIC BUD TBS .... a long shaky run!
For a number of years we flew a Calgary YYC or Edmonton YEG based DHC-6 twin otter on floats from MLE to Conrad Rangali Island. It seems they did the Maldives flights in the winter and bush runs in the summer (Alberta/Northwest Territories?). We never asked the pilot/owner the transit routing and now with Trans Maldivian Airlines taking over there is no chance to find out. Must have been pretty interesting with the max range of 799 nm.
Thanks for posting this article. I had the same question since I saw these former COPA birds at SJO.
Had the opportunity to fly on these Erj-190s from SJO to GUA and PTY on several occasions.
I wish the best to Alliance Airlines.
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I've been involved (from the periphery) in a few of these. We sent a M28 Skytruck from Mielec, Poland on a month long tour around Latin America, that required it to cross the Atlantic Ocean and we had a South American customer pick-up 7 UH-60M BLACK HAWK helicopters in upstate NY and ferry fly them to their home base, which required island hopping across the Caribbean and Central America.
Also, WorldAirRoutes has a video showing an Azul ATR-72 from Toulouse to Bello Horizonte.
Flying an Embraer E190 from Honolulu to Brisbane without any stops. That would be a perfect distance for such a small aircraft! But nothing could be further from the truth.
All compliments for Ben, which has done some good research on the routing of flight SXI2107. The aircraft was not visible on the Marshall Islands during the refuel which made it appear that the Embraer had performed an 11+ hour non-stop flight.
Definitely expect more similar stops and ferries like this in the future by Southern Cross International. Any type, any place, anytime, we deliver! ✈