Airbus will bring one of its A350 development aircraft to Australia and New Zealand in August during a round-the-world flight as part of the aircraft’s functional and reliability testing program. The aircraft is scheduled to arrive in Sydney on Monday August 4, and will fly to Auckland the following afternoon. This content is available exclusively
Air New Zealand has become the first airline in the world to take delivery of the Boeing 787-9 with the airline’s first of 10 on order touching down at Auckland Airport on Friday afternoon. 787-9 ZK-NZE (line number 169), operating as flight NZ6789, took off from Paine Field, Everett shortly before 8am Thursday morning local
Air New Zealand has shown off its first 787-9 to media a day ahead of the aircraft’s delivery flight to Auckland. These images show some of the feaures of the 301-seat airliner, including the airline’s famous ‘cuddle class’ Skycouch, new IFE system and off-the-rack premium economy seats (rather than the Spaceseat premium economy seat design
Boeing and Air New Zealand have marked the delivery of the airline’s first 787-9 in a special event on Tuesday evening attended by Air New Zealand staff and guests and more than 1,000 Boeing workers. Air New Zealand is the launch customer for the stretched variant of the Dreamliner, with 10, powered by Rolls-Royce’s Trent
An Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 will participate in next week’s Farnborough Airshow, just days after the airline takes delivery of its first 787 on Friday. The aircraft to be displayed at Farnborough will be the fifth of 10 the New Zealand airline has on order, and will be on static display and participate in
Air New Zealand passengers will be able to use their handheld portable electronic devices in non-transmitting mode for the entire duration of their flights from July 16 after approval was granted by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority. The airline says it will allow the use of tablets, smartphones, e-readers and mp3 players during all