Sad to see an aircraft retire but at least it's still got life in it. 'EBL was one of our regulars I believe, so it's quite nice to see it having been retired from a Newcastle run. I hope an announcement was made to the passengers. My mam was on a first visiting EK 77W into NCL (A6-ENE I think, definitely A6-EN*) and the captain made an announcement regarding that.
Emirates B777-300ER A6-EBL Positions to Dubai World Central Storage. | Emirates News
Does it happen often that aircraft are retired from, or delivered to NCL? I remember one of the TOM 767's operated it's last flight into NCL and positioned out a few years ago. I think G-GDFL and G-LSAN were also delivered to NCL, or definitely did their first crew training from here, but not 100%
EDIT: Mental to think of the 777 300ER being retired... Is this the first one?