✪ INAUGURAL ✪ Cathay Pacific ► Airbus A350-900 ► Landing ✈ Auckland Airport
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Goodbye A340, Hello A350!
I'm sad that from today on Cathay will fly their A350's to Auckland, replacing their beautiful A340's.
Of course, I'm a plane spotter, so, yes, I like seeing the A350 here, but I will miss the A340 more than I like seeing the A350 here.
It has just two engines, is more silent and ... no more smoke trails on take off. And at last, to be honest, I don't really like the looks of it.
Now we have only one A340 left, Air Tahiti Nui. But, also Air Tahiti Nui has a fleet replacement scheduled, with the first 787 being delivered in 2018.
So, yeah, long story short .. today was a bitter sweet moment.
By the way, sorry for the wind during taxiing. And, no water salute! Apparently, what I heard, Cathay declined AKL's offer of a water salute for safety reasons!
Airline: Cathay Pacific
Aircraft: Airbus A350-941
Registration: B-LRC
Flight: CX197
From: Hong Kong (HKG)
Airport: Auckland International Airport (AKL)
Date: 28 October 2016
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Beautiful, the A350 really looks perfect in the Cathay livery. Nice footage of this inaugural flight!
Thanks a lot, mate!
You know, I love all your videos.Liked and Subscribed!
Thank you very much! Appriciated!
Your welcome!
Great view of this A350! Liked - your usual outstanding spotting! I understand how you will miss the A340 - I miss the 727's that were at DCA:)
Thanks! I don't really like the A350 by itself, which makes the loss of he A340 even bigger. But I know a lot of people that are happy with the change. Well, I'm not. Apart from the sake of variation of course.
Very cool! We were a bit jealous that you got the CX A343's for so long and now you get their brand new aircraft as a replacement! :)
Hahaha, well, as you probably understood from the description, I would've been happy to keep the A340 for another while. Say, 10 or 20 years. :p
Ondanks dat het geen A340 is vind ik het toch een super mooie video van deze eerste A350 op Auckland! Liked!
Thanks! Het is leuk voor de variatie, maar het weegt niet op tegen het verlies van de prachtige Cathay A340!
Nicely done, I do love the A340 and its shame shes gone, but the A350 is lovely too ;)
Thank you! =)
STUNNING!!!!! What a beauty, and your already getting it :D! Liked for sure
Thank you very much, mate!! =)
Wonderful catch! Such a graceful aircraft!
amazing footage bas! sad to see that there was no water salute
Thanks, Meeral! I was disappointed too there wasn't a water salute, but apparently CX declined one.
Awesome catch and video. Huge thanks for sharing!
I think yours is far better than mine. Incredible filming and those people next to you were absolutely arrogant. That aside, another fantastic piece of work by the one and only Aviation NLNZ :) Liked!!
Hm, your colours are way better though! Especially your takeoff video has really nice contrast and sharpness!
And those 3 people next to me, oh, don't get me started. Hell, they were so ignorant. I kindly asked them to quiet down during filming and they started talking louder. I heard one of them even saying the A350 was a 787. Stupid noobs.
The Cathay livery on an A350 looks awesome! Nice video!
What a beautiful plane, I really like the design. Perfect catch!
Thanks a lot, mate!
Great inaugural catch!!
Always awesome to see the Cathay Pacific A350! Great you caught this inaugural flight, thumbs up! :)
Thank you very much, mate! =)
What a smooth landing! Great video!
Awesome Video mate, I will miss the Cathay A340 service at AKL too. At least it's an A350 operation. It will be a shame that Air Tahiti Nui will be replacing them soon too.
Yeah, indeed! Better enjoy Tahiti's A340 while we still can!
Amazing Video man !!! Love the A350! Subbed !
Thank you very much, mate!
Beautiful video and beautiful plane!
Now Air New Zealand really needs to step up and use the Boeing 787-9 on the HKG-AKL route, to keep up with the competition.
Thank you very much!
WOW very nice to see this great A350 at Auckland. Cheers Matt
Thanks, mate! It's nice for the variation, but I will surely miss the Cathay A340 though!
Splendid video Bas! Thanks very much for getting this.
Thanks, Tim! No problem! =)
Fantastic catch mate! Amazing aircraft! Liked!
Good Landing Cathay Pacific. They have beautiful to sky.
Great footage!
Thanks for filming the flight! I'm going on the Cathay A350 in April 2017 so I'm really looking forward to it. But I still prefer the A340 because I don't like Cathay's new design 🤔
Awesome, mate! And thanks! Would be the A340 for me too, no doubt!
Awesome video!! :)
I don't know but that A350 looks sexy in the Cathay livery. Beautiful airplane.
I guess this is one of those bitter sweet moments, it's great seeing an A350 at AKL but pretty sad to see another A340 leave the skies. Nevertheless, absolutely loved the video mate, looks like it couldn't have arrived in better weather!
Couldn't have put it better, mate! Thank you very much!
Wow future is there thanks for sharing this great view.
Amazing mate she is beautiful isn't she sadly I could not be there to see this
The A350 is not really my cup of tea, but I have to admit that it looks pretty nice from the front.
Aviation NLNZ Who gives a fuck what u think.....No one cares u stooge
Spectacular Video, the 350 would look much better in the old livery. Liked!
Thanks! Not sure if it would, but livery wise, I like the old one more anyway!
Nice video.. i love a350..
Thanks!
Turned out fine!
Such a Beautifull aircraft !
Nice Video!
I think the shape looks really great 👍👍
Quite the elegant plane
Beautiful you guys are lucky enough in india its still a320 in most airlines
great aircraft ... awesome 🖒
I think we've been let down with this choice :( I'd rather see 340 like many others. Rather see SQ I think. Great vid bas
Definitely agree, mate! Thanks!
AWESOME pitty we dont get 350's in syd yet but the 340 surely will be missed
I believe I heard Qatar will take the A350 to SYD soon, isn't it? I really miss the A340 though, much rather have the A340 than the A350, to be honest.
Aviation NLNZ That is very true i dont like the 777 as much either
I do regret never flying in the A340 .But i do look forward to flying in the A350. Sorry Bas its progress
Yeah, it's just the end of another era. The real sad day will be when Air Tahiti Nui receives their Dreamliners. Then there will be no more A340's at AKL. I have flown with the A340 back in 2006 and 2007. Really good memories!
Awesome footage as always, Bas. What camera and lens?
Thanks! It's the Canon Legria HF M31 that I use, with the standard lens.
The most soft landing ever!
Awesome catch of the CA A350! No water canon salute?
Thanks! No water salute indeed, Cathay declined one for safety reasons. As in; that water could damage instruments when it freezes up. Makes you wonder if they ever fly through rain with the A350. :P
All aircraft are made to fly thru rainstorm and hell weather!
Exactly! But yeah, that was apparently the reason that was given by Cathay. Like, what happened to flight 888T.
Still a nice catch!
Thanks!
The engines look fat and ugly. But you did a fantastic Job filming her buddy. Somewhat look forward to seeing it on Monday but will be sad is well
Thanks, buddy! I don't fancy the A350 at all. I do like the looks head-on though, but that's where it stops. It was soooo quiet. :(
I love U cathy.... ❤️ ❤️
Well to be fair the A340s were very dirty! But I will miss them always almost running out of runway and having TO/GA thrust every time!
Personally, no other Airbus beats the A340 for me. Still my all-time favourite Airbus.
@@AviationNZ same.......except maybe the A380
B-LRC? Flown on this one!
Yes, B-LRC! :)
grande jato.
Did they not do the water cannon salute?
No, unfortunately CX declined a water salute for safety reasons. :/
Safety reasons? Anything specific they mean by that? Engines cannot take water?
Nah, the more sensitive instruments. Read about flight 888T (Air NZ A320) which had water in the angle of attack (AOA) sensor and led to a crash. At least, that's what I heard. They didn't want anything to go wrong on this first flight. Just ruling out risks, I guess.
Aufsetzen 0:50
Is this a A350-800; 900 or 1000?I think it's 900 but i'm not sure.
A -900 indeed. It's also in the title and description of the video...
Oh I'm a fool, thank you very much. :)
F*** WHY IS IT SO UGLY!?!? Cathay Pac, why'd you let AKL spotters down? Long live the A340! >:/
Canadian Plane Spotter haha, c'mon it is isn't that bad!
Hahahaha, the truth has been spoken!
This company will just tell lies. All to easy to make a big profit when you tell the customer one thing and then just goback on it some month later. They cost me 5 London Hong Kong returns. I even when to the head office and all the did was laugh.
People need be warned Cathay Pacific will just tell lies. All to easy to make a big profit when you tell the customer one thing and then just go back on it some months later. They cost me 5 London Hong Kong returns. I even went to the head office and all the did was laugh. All in all a very bad experience they have had no interest in sorting any thing out as they have my money more Show less