Category: NZ News

The New Zealand Defence Force has signed a five-year contract with Hawker Pacific for the supply and maintenance of four King Air B200 aircraft. The Pro-Line 21 equipped King Airs, which will be used to provide advanced pilot training in addition to a domestic air transport capability, will be supplied by Hawker Pacific under a

Air New Zealand has announced it will operate a second season of services between Auckland and Bali. The airline will operate three times a week between June 1 and October 15 2013 using 767-300s.  The extension of the season by three weeks is in response to a 38 per cent increase in demand for winter

Air New Zealand deputy CEO Norm Thompson will retire next year, joining an executive exodus as CEO Rob Fyfe prepares to leave at the end of 2012. “Few Air New Zealanders have made as significant a contribution to our airline and the nation’s tourism industry as Norm has over the past 44 years,” Mr Fyfe

Air New Zealand will increase capacity to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver as it moves to replace seats lost by Qantas’s exit from New Zealand-California flights earlier this year. Air NZ will increase San Francisco services from five times weekly to daily, Los Angeles services from 12 per week to twice daily and Vancouver