ANZEIGE
This one feels like it should be easy to narrow down by process of elimination but my flight was during an odd in between time.@pbody
2011-04-20 IE0701 BNE HIR 1045 1500 A320 pbody
2011-04-27 IE0700 HIR BNE 1600 1830 A320 pbody
For this flights only H4-BUS and F-GSTR could be possible if it really was a A320.
For F-GSTR I found the following:
Solomons (Solomon Airlines) (Honiara) will let the Strategic Airlines (Australia) wet lease expire and will dry lease its own Airbus A320 in March 2011. The new A320 will operate in full Solomons colors rather than Strategic colors.
For H4-BUS I found the follwing:
The airline announced on September 8, 2011 that CASA Australia (Civil Aviation Safety Authority) has finally approved their FAOC (Foreign Air Operators Certificate) application which now gives Solomons their AOC to commence scheduled flights to and from Brisbane, Australia.
Our Airline operated for Solomons until September 11, 2011.
The pictured former Air Canada Airbus A320-211 now registered as H4-BUS (msn 302) commenced its first scheduled revenue flight on Monday September 12, 2011 from Brisbane to Honiara and return. H4-BUS is pictured at BNE in the revised color scheme.
According to rizjet the leasing for F-GSTR ended on 20.05.2011 while on the same day the leasing for H4-BUS began.
Do you have maybe picture of the aircraft, since F-GSTR has a Strategic painted on the tail.
F-GSTR was apparently returned to lessor in March, where did you see May 20th?
on May 16th a Strategic A320 VH-YQB had an incident operating HIR-BNE https://avherald.com/h?article=43cab5ec&utm_source=chatgpt.com
I have seen some reports of VH-NLK operating on behalf of Solomon Airlines but it seems to be June-Sept 2011
H4-BUS was delivered in May 2011 but apparently didn’t enter service until September. It can’t have operated my April flight.
my memory is that it was served by an A320, I remember talking about strategic operating the flight but I’m unsure if that memory is as a result of email confirmations issued before the contract changes or if Strategic was part of the airport experience.
I seem to remember the plane being either all white or displaying fairly minimal branding. I’m almost certain it wasn’t VH-NLK.
To me it seems most likely to have been VH-YQA, VH-YQB, or VH-YQC.