Alliance Airlines Fokker F-100 VH-FWI at Longreach Airport over the Weekend

On Saturday 22 February, Alliance Airlines Fokker F-100 VH-FWI touched down at Longreach Airport on a charter flight from Brisbane.  It operated in to Longreach as UTY580.

VH-FWI at Emerald Airport  (File photo)

It departed Longreach back to Brisbane on Sunday 23 February as UTY581.

Meanwhile, last week at Longreach Airport, QantasLink had some maintenance issues with Dash-8-Q400 VH-QOC suffering a bird strike at Blackall on Wednesday 19 February while operating as QLK2352 from Brisbane to Longreach via Blackall.  Later that night, VH-QOC departed back to Brisbane empty as QLK6705.

VH-QOC at Emerald Airport  (File photo)

Fellow Dash-8-Q400s VH-LQL and VH-QOH were summoned to Longreach, with VH-QOH eventually operating the delayed QLK2533 flight back to Brisbane.

VH-QOC re-entered service with QantasLink on Sunday 23 February.