Hawaiian Airbus A330-200 to JFK Tonight 5/17

According to this thread:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/5468149/

Hawiian Airlines will be flying in a brand new A330-200 from TLS via AUS to be parked at JFK until Saturday afternoon. I imagine the aircraft is coming in for some gate testing, ground crew familiarization, etc.

The flight into AUS:

http://de.flightaware.com/live/flight/HAL8401

I'll be flying JetBlue into JFK this evening so I'll certainly be looking for the a/c to get a pic, although an A330 among a sea of A320s/E190s certainly won't be hard to spot.

Interesting. The stop in AUS is quite odd, though.

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Originally Posted by GothamSpotter

Interesting. The stop in AUS is quite odd, though.

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Yes, very odd considering they will be starting non-stops between JFK-HNL next month.

Well, being the "pineapple" is out of the bag. It will be at gate 14 around 2330 tonight and stay there tomorrow so we can test the fit and check the parking system with the new bird. We have a couple of other gates now set up for 330's as a back up. They have been painting all week the "HEAVY" lines and it sure will be interesting. When we are finished testing, it is scheduled to depart tomorrow . Pictures will be posted tomorrow.

Wish I had a chance to see her. Just arrived and see now it won't be there for a few hours. Looking forward to the pics!

I think Mark may be out there to get a few shots. stay tuned.....

Got it! (sorta)

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...DSC_0779-1.jpg

Awesome! :p

Got it.........Aloha! Here are just a few photo's of the Hawaiian which arrived this evening approx. 2235 on RWY 31R. She parked somewhere behind the JetBlue terminal.

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Av...y201231R-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Av...y201231R-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Av...y201231R-L.jpg

Nice shots! I'm still surprised I got anything at all, but yours are fantastic!

I think I was shooting around ISO 4000-5000 with a f-stop of 2.8 and a shutter speed around 1/50 sec, then some posting processing to clean up the noise in the images.

Very nice sir !!!

Mark that middle shot is AWESOME, to bad that damn Flying Foods Catering truck had to be in the way.

Cheers

LGA777

Great shots. Reminds me how much I miss Air Tahiti.

Any word on the departure time for the flying Hawaiian?