Air New Zealand today restarted commercial flights from Rarotonga, on the Cook Islands, to Auckland following a new travel bubble opening.
Alliance is to rival Qantas and Rex and launch flights between Townsville and Cairns from 28 January.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has argued Australia should introduce a two-way travel bubble to New Zealand this year.
Sydney Airport’s domestic passenger traffic more than doubled in December as all state borders briefly opened to NSW.
Australian Aviation photographer Victor Pody caught the moment a 30-year old Antonov Airlines An-124-100 landed at Avalon Airport last week.
Rex's John Sharp has said Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is secretly distressed at the prospect of his airline flying capital city routes.