SQ unusual cargo flight

[Melburnian1]

Forgive me for placing this question here but even though it is not a passenger flight, I thought this was the best place.

SQ7293 (B744 9V-SFM) is operating from AVV to MEL this morning (Monday 24 October 2016, having taken off at 1113 with touchdown expected at 1123), an extremely short flight (and an expensive one) for a heavy aircraft.

Is this regular - last week it appears to have just travelled from MEL to SIN?

Any reason why it needed to call at both (I don't believe SQ cargo planes are maintained at AVV).

 

[Pointcollector]

Bike racing at Phillip Island on the weekend. Same happens with the F1s too earlier in the year. I expect there was general cargo lodged at Tulla that they had the capacity and load planning to make it viable.

 

[Boof1]

SQ7293 (B744 9V-SFM) is operating from AVV to MEL this morning (Monday 24 October 2016, having taken off at 1113 with touchdown expected at 1123), an extremely short flight (and an expensive one) for a heavy aircraft.

Im sorry to say but I don't think this is 100% correct, the aircraft departed AVV and flew direct to KUL. You can see it on the flightradar24 replay at 0010UTC today. There is some discrepancy with the details of the aircraft's arrival back to Australia with Flightaware showing that it flew AKL-AVV and Flightradar24 showing a planned AKL-MEL with a diversion to AVV. Nothing in the live ATC recordings would suggest a diversion was needed so I would say this was planned.

This is a guess but I would suspect that 9V-SFM operated the normal SIN-MEL-AKL outbound, then in lieu of the going via MEL back to SIN on the return it went via AVV today for AKL-AVV-KUL routing.

As Pointcollector mentioned this would be for the MotoGP as the next round of the series is in Malaysia this coming weekend.

Cheers,
Boof