Sunrise's five countries in five days

[SeatBackForward]

Looks like a lot of J...

https://instagram.com/p/71YR69iL6x/

Publishing her QFF number!

Why would she swap seats DXB to LHR?

 

[mannej]

Publishing her QFF number!

Why would she swap seats DXB to LHR?

Did they not stop over in DXB to film?

 

[JessicaTam]

Did they not stop over in DXB to film?

Yep. The BPs are three days apart.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Yep. The BPs are three days apart.

Did they not stop over in DXB to film?

Ah that explains it, I thought they went direct to London. Just goes to highlight, I'm not a breakfast TV viewer..

 

[ozbeachbabe]

So going by the boarding passes on Sam's fridge the flew the following airlines. I think the flight numbers are correct - the Instagram pics are a tad blurred. I notice that Flight Centre got frequent mentions during the broadcast so they obviously bankrolled some of the trip.

Fri 11 Sep MEL/DXB QF 009
Mon 14 Sep DXB/LHR QF 009
Tue 15 Sep LHR/JFK BA 117
Tue 15 Sep JFK/BUF B62002
Thu 17 Sep YYZ/CUN AC1810
Fri 18 Sep CUN/DFW AA1655
Fri 18 Sep DFW/SYD QF 008

I notice that from the website The BA Source | that the rego of the 744 that operated BA117 was G-CIVF so they obviously used file footage of what was meant to be their plane landing in New York as the rego on the nosewheel flap on the show IIRC was "LS" which would have been G-BNLS. This aircraft had it's last hurrah when it flew from Cardiff to Victorville as BA9156 on 20 May 2014 so definitely not that a/c but I don't expect the majority of Sunrise viewers would have been as picky as die hard avgeeks here on AFF.

I note that 744 G-BNLH has also been withdrawn from use. It was appropriately nicknamed "never leaves hangar" for obvious reasons. Any plane that got parts from that a/c would be jinxed for sure.

 

[Dr Ralph]

I see that there was no decisive ratings boost for channel 7 as a result of their efforts.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I guess it will be a similar non-ratings boost for next week's Ch9 Today Show round Australia junket with all these planned music super stars they'll need to interview by satellite which apparently is a technical feat not possible ftom the Willoughby Studios - it must be done while away.

 

[Dr Ralph]

I guess it will be a similar non-ratings boost for next week's Ch9 Today Show round Australia junket with all these planned music super stars they'll need to interview by satellite which apparently is a technical feat not possible ftom the Willoughby Studios - it must be done while away.

Probably. But it has to be a lot cheaper for Nine.

 

[Fiches Mouser]

I see that there was no decisive ratings boost for channel 7 as a result of their efforts.

My reading was to the contrary: How Sunrise won its globe-trotting gamble - mUmBRELLA