Southern Air 742 at OPKC

[imranzul]

Hi Guys the photo below shows Southern Air 742 on finals at OPKC photgraphed by Asuspine on 6/01/10 . Does anyone have any information of the routing of this particular flight to Karachi or where it came from. Thanks

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Southern ... 79f82d37aa

[raihans]

I use to spot it in Kuwait, here is one photo i share long back...

[imranzul]

Great shot, thanks for sharing. Seems this 742 visits the area a lot, could be on charter flights.

[Pineapple]

Must be an occasional visitor like Orient Thai Airways.

[asuspine]

I heard from someone that in those days Kabul was facing a shortage of aviation fuel. Most of the cargo traffic had a refueling stopover at KHI while flying in and out of Kabul. There is a visible reduction on Cargo traffic now a days.

[fahadpk17]

i also spotted that same aircraft back in Jan 2010 at OPKC
here is the link

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15984

[Umair]

This aircraft was on a short visit to Lahore a few days back;

[quote]Southern Air is an American airline based in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. It operates wet leasing of Boeing 747 cargo aircraft to international air cargo carriers[quote]. This is the wikipedia link from where more info can be obtained:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Air.

[FarooqKhan]

Southern's New ID http://www.airliners.net/photo/Southern ... 1733863/M/

[imranzul]

Nice update