Keishi (KN Aviation)

Aviation enthusiast, photographer, and blogger. Born and raised in 🇸🇰 Nitra, living in 🇯🇵 Tokyo. Follow @jpnaviationhub for daily Japanese aviation news.

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Turns out July 29 is not a lucky day for special livery inaugurals… Exactly 10 years ago, I boarded the first flight of Air Do’s Bear Do Hokkaido Jet just to taxi out and return to the gate due to a technical issue before getting on a substitute aircraft instead.

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The latest Pokemon Jet’s inaugural flight didn’t go as planned, with the aircraft having flown to Okinawa early in the morning instead of the originally scheduled Haneda-Fukuoka flight.

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Equipment change from CSA livery A220 to Travel Service 737-900ER on CDG-PRG. Been ages since I boarded a Slovak/Czech-speaking airline. Guess the last time was back when SkyEurope was still in business…

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Lucky equipment change from a regular Malaysia A350 to an ex-SAS one for the ~7h flight to KL. (Having grown up in Europe, it took me years to realize that parts of Southeast Asia are almost as far from Tokyo as the US East Coast is from Europe 😅)

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Only had a couple of hours to do plane spotting at each Geneva and Palma de Mallorca, but both sessions were very fruitful!

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First time I've seen an overhead bin selection screen. 😀 Looking forward to flying Condor 757 tomorrow!

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@TG744 Ah, makes sense!

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Nice that ANA now allows one-way awards on non-Star Alliance partners too (at least for Etihad from Southeast Asia to Europe, one-ways from Japan didn't seem to work). Fuel surcharges and taxes add up but still not bad for 47,000 miles + ~500USD.

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A fun day trip flying to Yamaguchi Ube on Starflyer, then taking the 500 Series Shinkansen to Hakata, and doing some night spotting in Fukuoka before flying back to Tokyo.

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There should also be a 🤫 picture with two adults on the sign.

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Painting an aircraft all at once = one Instagram post.
Putting on titles, then painting winglets, then painting tail, then fuselage = many Instagram posts.

If nothing else, Global Airlines definitely is a leader in the number of announcements. 😀

[Andreas Spaeth @SpaethFlies]

BREAKING @globalairlines first „fully“ painted #A380 reg. 9H-GLOBL rolled out just now in Dresden, Germany. Retaining previous cheatline of China Southern. No bets yet on Global‘s success. Will be operated by @hifly_airline #avgeek

[U. S. Steel @U_S_Steel]

Statement from David B. Burritt, President and CEO, on Today’s Order by President Biden.

https://t.co/85iuRNiCAM

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Evening walk from Hilton CDG.

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Guess there’s not better plane to fly from Tokyo to Paris when going to Disneyland than the R2D2 Jet!

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Seems like ANA actually handed out Aquafresh to the inaugural flight passengers 😂

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ANA partnering with Aquafresh...I mean Expo 2025 Osaka for its next special livery. Expected to enter into service in early December 2024.

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Last Tokyo Disneyland of the year.

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Amazing.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

33 Raptor engines powering the Super Heavy booster off the pad from Starbase 🔥🔥🔥

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The next stop is Haneda Airport Terminal 3. Please change here for the Tokyo Metro Elizabeth Line.

[Financial Times @FT]

Tokyo Metro brought in to run London’s Elizabeth Line https://t.co/hSYVRFPc01

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JAL's new flagship A350-1000 landing on Haneda's runway 34L while its previous flagship 777-300ER is being maintained in the airline's hangar.

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Daughter logged her flight #12 the other day - coincidentally departing from gate 12. Couldn’t resist expanding her (my? 😅) aviation-themed picture book collection.