iscoverAir New Zealand has announced that current chair and chief executive of KPMG, Jan Dawson, will join the airline’s board on April 1. Dawson has more than 30 years experience as a lead audit partner with several major companies in New Zealand, as well as experience in the UK and Canada. The appointment coincides with
Air New Zealand has posted normalised earnings before tax of NZ$112 million for the first half of the current financial year, up 33 per cent on the same half in the 2009-10 financial year. The result (NZ$96 million after tax) includes an NZ$18 million gain on equity swaps relating to Air NZ’s recent investment in
A recovering Japanese tourist market has prompted Air New Zealand to put its Boeing 747-400 aircraft on the Tokyo route for the first time in half a decade. The news comes after a 12 per cent increase in Japanese visitor numbers to New Zealand, which saw 87,700 arrivals in 2010. This was preceded by just
A 20 per cent growth in international visitor numbers from China will see Air New Zealand add two more direct flights each week between Auckland, Beijing and Shanghai. Subject to government and landing slot approval, the airline will add an extra Tuesday Auckland-Beijing return service from December 6, and an additional Sunday Auckland-Shanghai return service
Poor weather at Antarctica New Zealand’s Scott Base has seen 104 family members prematurely end their Erebus remembrance trip. Relatives of those who perished in Air New Zealand’s 1979 Mount Erebus disaster departed Antarctica on an RNZAF Boeing 757 around 6pm yesterday (February 16), about two hours earlier than originally planned. The flight was scheduled
An Air Nelson Dash 8 Q300 was forced to make an emergency landing at New Zealand’s Blenheim Airport on February 9 after its nosegear failed to lock down in the extended position. Forty-one passengers and three crew were on board the aircraft, which was operating a scheduled flight between Hamilton and Wellington, before diverting to Blenheim
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