Alliance Airlines Fokker F-70 VH-JFB Pops into Rockhampton Airport on School Holiday Run to Horn Island

On Thursday 26 November, Alliance Airiness Fokker F-70 jet VH-JFB was noted arriving into Rockhampton Airport from Brisbane as UTY562. It then departed to Horn Island - via a diversion into Townsville - still as UTY562.  VH-JFB then returned to Brisbane from Horn Island but as UTY563.

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We see these types of flights between Rocky and Horn Island quite regularly particularly around school holiday time prompting speculation that these flights ferry boarding school children home to school holidays - which start very soon!

Meanwhile, also on Thursday 26 November, fellow Alliance Airlines Fokker F-70 VH-NUY made its first ever visit to Rockhampton Airport, operating on the weekly Fly-in Fly-out (FIFO) charter flight as UTY8448/9 from and back to Brisbane.

As posted below, VH-NUY is the most recent Fokker F-70 delivered to Alliance Airlines.

Photo taken by Lloyd Fox ©