Philippines
A330-301 F-OHZP getting
underway as PR433 to Cebu (a five-times weekly
afternoon
flight) while a Fair CRJ comes in from Osaka-Itami
in the background.
This A300B4-203F registered N474AS had nothing more than small stickers
to identify its current operator Air Hong Kong. It was brought from the
cargo area on the right hand side of the Terminal 1 observation deck
to a mixed parking/tech zone on the far left.
Turning
up totally unexpected was JALways’ 747-246B “Reso’cha” JA8150!
It came in late operating Japan Asia Airways
flight EG278 from Taipei. Seen here on late
afternoon final approach to runway 31L.
The
strong presence of Korean Air more than justifies
inclusion of another model routinely flown on
the Seoul-Narita route. Normally KE701 is an
A330-300 on Sundays and a 747-300 only on Saturdays,
but that weekend things HL7469 was standing in.
CX509
is a daily Cathay Pacific B777-300 flight to
Hong Kong.
Seeing
China Northern’s A300-622R B-2329 operate
a China Southern flight to Dalian was more than
justification enough to try an “emergency
shot” as the merger of the two will soon
make this livery history.
A close look at the colourful tail of JAL’s
green “Reso’cha” JA8184,
a 747-346SR, after pushback bound for Saipan
on the Mariana Islands as JO947.
Taking
approach pictures of it operating for Japan Asia
Airways from Taipei as EG278 is not so easy with
the most important details being hidden behind
the wing for most of the time.
Air
China has a daily afternoon 777-200-service to
Beijing which is identified by the flight number
CA926. B-2060 takes care of this one.
Air
India’s 747-337M to Delhi
is routed via Bangkok on Wednesdays and Saturdays
with a slightly different flight numbers.
The day this photo is taken VT-EPW “Shivaji” flight
AI301 is about to start on a non-stop
flight to Delhi.
During
my visit, China Southern 777-21Bs were a surprisingly
rare sight at Narita with most of the flights
covered by smaller aircraft models ranging from
MD-82s to A300s. Unfortunately, I had positioned
myself on the Terminal 2 observation deck on
the wrong side of the rapid transit tracks when
the only one I got to see came in from Guangzhou
as CZ385.
