Category: NZ News

Airlines

Qantas is boosting flights between Sydney and Queenstown this coming winter as skiers flock to the popular New Zealand tourist hotspot. The airline plans to operate an additional 13 return flights over July and August, with 11 of those to run on selected weekdays and two scheduled for Saturday August 6th and 13th. This content

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City touched down at Vietnam’s largest city on Saturday evening. Ho Chi Minh becomes the airline’s 30th international destination, and joins Houston, Buenos Aires and Beijing as recent additions to the Kiwi flag carrier’s international route map. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand is withdrawing from two loss making regional services – Whanganui-Auckland and Blenheim-Christchurch. The airline says the two routes haven proven unable to sustain the larger 50-seat Dash 8 Q300 following the retirement of its 19-seat Beech 1900D aircraft. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To

Airlines

Air New Zealand is trialling the use of a camera carrying wall climbing robot to inspect hard to reach surfaces on its aircraft. “Currently to inspect the top of the fuselage, as we do following incidents such as lightning strikes, engineers need to work at heights of up to eight metres,” Air New Zealand chief operations officer Bruce

Air New Zealand

Night operations at Queenstown Airport have commenced with the arrival of Air New Zealand flight NZ613 from Auckland. The flight, operated by Airbus A320 ZK-OXI, touched down a little after 1920 local time on Monday, after a one hour and 46 minute journey from Auckland. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Airlines

Hong Kong Airlines has announced it will launch daily flights to Auckland from November 10. “With the success of our service to Australia earlier this year, Hong Kong Airlines is more than delighted to announce this second long-haul service, operating daily to Auckland, New Zealand,” Hong Kong Airlines chief commercial officer Li Dianchun said in a statement on

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