Ethiopian Airlines DRW - NAN - DRW

[Melburnian1]

B763 ET-AMF of Ethiopian Airlines landed in DRW at 0725 hours on Thursday 27 December 2018.

It came in from NAN, and on 26 December had taken off from DRW after arriving from BKK. Prior to that it had been to DEL and before that, BEY (Beirut).

Is this a worldwide tour for some upmarket group such as Captain's Club, or French tourists travelling the world? Or for a cruise line?

Or is it conveying illegal immigrants who are being deported or transferred?

I've not been on ET but this government-owned outfit is Africa's largest (some may assume that SAA has that distinction), is fast growing and there's lots on Internet to suggest it's a good airline.

As far as I know it hasn't yet announced plans for scheduled passenger flights to Australia but its footprint extends to Buenos Aires and Madagascar, plus Chicago so it's not exactly just a local airline.

 

[love_the_life]

That is very interesting. Look forward to hearing more.

 

[Forg]

They gotta transport the chemtrail mix around somehow!

 

[ozbeachbabe]

If you go to the Flightaware app you can enter the rego ET-AMF under 'tail number' and see where it's been. Looks like it's currently in SIN and prior to that DRW, NAN, DRW, BKK, DEL, DAC, CCU, DSS (Diass Senegal) & DEL. I still don't know what it was up to.

I remember seeing ET 767's in DRW (amongst other weird and wonderful overseas carriers) as the Portuguese used them to take troops from LIS to DRW (ET were the cheapest I believe to charter) where they'd then get the smaller UN transport to Dili. Baucau Airport was capable of taking larger aircraft and sometimes Portuguese troop rotations would fly in and out of that one.

 

[Melburnian1]

If you go to the Flightaware app you can enter the rego ET-AMF under 'tail number' and see where it's been. Looks like it's currently in SIN and prior to that DRW, NAN, DRW, BKK, DEL, DAC, CCU, DSS (Diass Senegal) & DEL. I still don't know what it was up to...
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Thanks, I had already done that which is why I was able to mention the other airports in the original post.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

It doesn't sound like a Captain's Choice or Four Season type charter with all the back tracking and zig zagging all over the place.

 

[Melburnian1]

It doesn't sound like a Captain's Choice or Four Season type charter with all the back tracking and zig zagging all over the place.

No, so with your input possibilities include (a) soldiers (b) illegal immigrants (c) cruise line with (c) being least likely.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Was speaking to a DRW friend who said they were military charters & believed TOLL were doing the handling.

 

[Melburnian1]

Was speaking to a DRW friend who said they were military charters & believed TOLL were doing the handling.

oz, I should have thought of that before because Northern Territory has been a major location for military exercises in previous years. Great research!

 

[jase05]

Was speaking to a DRW friend who said they were military charters & believed TOLL were doing the handling.

After making some enquires through my work I can confirm what your friend has said