After a smooth, hassle free journey of about an hour, we arrived outside the terminal of Itami. Having bought a few things to eat back at Kansai while waiting for the bus, I headed straight up to the viewing deck which is well sign-posted throughout the terminal. It stretches almost the length of the JAL and ANA terminals, however it is more of a series of viewing decks joined by corridors rather than one large terrace. Anyway, the views are super as you would expect, with nothing able to be missed, however from a photography point of view, by mid-to-late morning you're going to start having sun issues and by the afternoon the sun is well and truly in your face! There is a large viewing area/park on the other side of the airfield from which you can get super shots in the afternoon, however as I was catching a flight to Fukuoka at 17:30, and the weather was becoming more overcast, I decided to stick with the terminal side and content myself with the odd shot when things taxied the right way (from a sun point of view!)
Around 15:00 or so I noticed some aircraft out to sea turning around the bay as if heading to KIX and sure enough once switching on the SBS, it showed that Kansai had changed runway to the 24s, so a few more numbers hit the book (see earlier KIX log.) Anyway, around the back of 4 things started to repeat, so I decided to head down and check in for my All Nippon flight to Fukuoka. This was quickly achieved, partly thanks to being taken out the short queue to a separate desk, then it was through security and off to the gate area. This was close to the threshold of one of the parallel runways so from here nothing was missed. A couple more new were noted before a 2/3 full B738, JA63AN, took me to FUK on time, arriving just over an hour later.
Seen from 12:00 to 17:35
AMAKUSA
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DH8A - 81AM
ANA (and subsidiaries)
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A320 - 8979
B735 - 306K, 357K, 8404, 8500
B738 - 51AN, 62AN, 63AN, 70AN
B763 - 8291, 8357, 8674
B772 - 705A, 713A, 714A, 8967
DH8D - 460A, 461A, 841A, 842A, 843A, 847A, 851A, 852A, 853A, 854A, 856A, 858A
IBEX
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CRJ - 02RJ, 03RJ, 04RJ
JAL (and subsidiaries)
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B738 - 324J, 345J
B763 - 655J, 8398
B772 - 008D, 771J
CRJ - 201J, 203J, 207J, 208J, 209J
DH8D - 844C, 845C, 848C, 850C
E170 - 213J, 216J, 219J, 220J, 221J, 222J, 223J
SF34 - 8642, 8704
Others
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JA134Y B105 Private
JA61NH AS65 ANA Helicopters
JA6765 S76 Corporate
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