• Aircraft:

  Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

• Reg: G-CKWE photos
• Serial #:

  38790

• Airline: Norwegian
• Photo Date: Mar 31, 2019
• Uploaded: May 13, 2019
• San Francisco Int'l Airport - KSFO, USA - California

"Jane Austen" pulling into gate A9 on the first regularly scheduled LGW-SFO flight in many decades as "Red Nose 7173" with T1 terminal construction behind. Norwegian had become quite successful in OAK across the San Francisco Bay, but Oakland's one wide body capable international arrival gate lead to problems for the carrier, despite there being plenty of domestic gates to tow on to for departure usually to accommodate the next inbound. This combined with SFO not having Gatwick service or low cost flights to London was likely the winning combination for getting the OAK-LGW flight to move to SFO. Odd timing, however, with British Airways having elected not to resume OAK-LGW for the summer of 2019. Nice to see Norwegian here, but odd that "Harvey Milk" or "Freddy Mercury" wasn't the inaugural bird to San Francisco.

Photographer

Aircraft

Nathan Long G-CKWE

784 2 0 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Photo taken from the ground

William Alves G-CKWE

1,806 15 0 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Hawkwind G-CKWE

1,061 4 0 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Photo location

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165 1 0 Airbus A319-131

SKDD N835UA

143 0 0 Airbus A319-131

Photographer

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One of the Atlas Air-operated Dreamlifters departing PAE for CHS in golden winter evening light, not long before 787 production moved entirely to CHS and these birds became much less common visitors to PAE

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1,768 11 0 Boeing 747-409(LCF)

Turning onto taxiway Uniform headed to runway 30 for departure to Kona in the early morning sunshine against the hills of the San Francisco Peninsula not long after Hawaiian resumed the KOA-OAK route which was suspended during the pandemic

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