On 25 June 2025 I finally caught this special Hainan Airlines B787-9 in Vienna, promoting IHG Hotels and Resorts, it successfuly escaped me for more than a year. It arrived to Vienna already on the second flight, however unexpectedly requested and was assigned the other runway. Then it came in bad weather. Then it came exactly when I was in Japan. It also visited Budapest several times, for example 1 day after I was there and again two days ago, when I was away again in Rome. It finally went well today... :-)
Only on 29 May 2024 Hainan Airlines opened regular flights Shenzhen-Vienna and already 2 different logojets appeared on 2 of the 3 flights so far. While B-1499 on 01 June 2024 deceived all spotters when it insisted on request for RWY 29 for landing, despite RWY 34 being used, today the Chinese boys were satisfied with the usual RWY 16 in use.
