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Virgin Blue's New 73G Arrives In WLG, NZ  
User currently offlineTG992 From New Zealand, joined Jan 2001, 2910 posts, RR: 13
Posted (11 years 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 803 times:

From the New Zealand Herald..


Virgin Blue on flying visit to Wellington

29.04.2001 4.00 pm
Australian budget airline Virgin Blue has made its first visit to New Zealand - landing a brand-new Boeing 737-700 at Wellington Airport.

The aircraft has stopped off here on its maiden voyage from Seattle, in the United States, before heading to Australia.

However, the airline hopes there will be many more visits in future - it wants to start a domestic service here by Christmas that will compete with no-frills Freedom Air.

Virgin chief executive Brett Godfrey flew in on the plane. Tomorrow, he will meet the Civil Aviation Authority and transport minister Mark Gosche to discuss the rules which must be met to operate within New Zealand.

One thousand spectators and 25 journalists were at the airport to greet the bright-red Boeing.



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User currently offlineAerorobnz From Rwanda, joined Feb 2001, 5819 posts, RR: 14
Reply 1, posted (11 years 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 777 times:

it's name is 'brissie lizzie'

User currently offlineNdebele From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 2893 posts, RR: 27
Reply 2, posted (11 years 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 771 times:

See a photo under boeing.com

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2001/photorelease/q2/photo_release_010426b.html

User currently offlineAirnewzealand From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 2524 posts, RR: 6
Reply 3, posted (11 years 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 735 times:

Freedom air is doing very good at present all flights out of AKL are currently booked Solid with no Empty Seats. Lets just see how long this lasts for!!

Cheers
mikey
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