The 1.2 million litre delivery, equivalent to fuelling 400 return flights between Auckland and Wellington, will be used to test the supply chain to set up future imports.
The news also averts any more potential disruption for Qantas passengers, as well as those flying with other airlines.
The results were significantly worse than the $76.8 million recorded in the previous corresponding period but compares favourably to Qantas' underlying loss of $1.86 billion.
Richard Goyder has said Alan Joyce and his executive team have done “exceptionally well” to recover from COVID in a strongly-worded riposte to the chief executive's critics.
It follows similar poaching schemes in reverse by the national carrier and also an extraordinary court battle between the two airlines over ‘defecting’ Virgin Velocity loyalty chief Nick Rohrlach.
The first flight under the unique partnership departed on Tuesday, with ZK-NFA taking off from Christchurch at 11:49am as NZ8844 and landing in Nelson at 12:40pm, local time.