Off topic, but youre a safe crowd - has anyone ever had their username changed here? Maybe ask in the Site Related forum in case it’s changed, but my understanding is that it isn’t possible (I’d have changed mine if it was!) Thanks, ill let you know what they say. Only way to change your forum name...
Jump to postOrigin Air has some charters lined up soon. Nelson to Napier and Nelson to Christchurch. I wonder if they will test out the market to see how they sell before commiting a regular service. https://originair.co.nz/deals/ Origin had a NPE - NSN and NPE - PMR - NSN service till earlier this year which ...
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I feel that NZ might get its self caught napping, with QF contacts Alliance to operate more e190s on the Tasman for them. Especially if Alliance decided to open a New Zealand crew base, I would think this would hit NZ Q300/ATR crews pretty bad. Especially if the NZ/QF domestic code share ends! With...
Jump to postThe media event is to farewell the B717 and also to talk about the arrival of new aircraft to the group, high ranking executives will be there. Probs reveal the new cabins, maybe announce Some of the new routes formally, or a surprise route, PR spin on new based employment etc…. Non event. https://...
Jump to postIs NZ considering a retro livery? Just seen a facebook post with an A320 in the early 80s livery but with comments saying they arent considering this livery again.
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There is an article in The Australian (paywall) that Bain has done investigations into buying REX though only the regional operation with the jet operation being closed down. Not sure it is a great idea as REX regional has a number of issues principally that it relies on some very old SAABs that ne...
Jump to postThe Australian has reported that Virgin's been holding buy out talks with both Air NZ and REX! "Bain Capital’s Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand are understood to have held recent discussions about a merger of the two airlines at a time that Virgin is also assessing whether it could buy regi...
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Unconfirmed reports at this stage, but I've heard SOFIA was damaged yesterday during the storm and all remaining flights are cancelled with a return to the USA now earlier then planned
Jump to postSo i just found something very interesting, if you go to Air Vanuatu's website, and go to Destinations - New Zealand, there are 2 destinations listed, Auckland AND Wellington. Air Vanuatu has never flown to Wellington. Is it possible Air Vanuatu might be planning to fly to Wellington? They were sup...
Jump to postZK-NBT wrote:NZ801 wrote:ZK-NBT wrote:Is RAR-LAX scheduled to return? Same with RAR-SYD?
I’ve not heard these two routes mentioned at all.
I had seen it mentioned elsewhere that made it seem RAR-LAX at least may not return, I may have it wrong though
Flew today AKL - NPE this morning and noticed a B752 freighter is parked between domestic and international. It was there when I flew into AKL 3 weeks ago. When returning to AKL this evening, there was also a white-ish A330 (freighter?) parked beside an MH A330. Couldn't make out the airline name b...
Jump to postFlew today AKL - NPE this morning and noticed a B752 freighter is parked between domestic and international. It was there when I flew into AKL 3 weeks ago. When returning to AKL this evening, there was also a white-ish A330 (freighter?) parked beside an MH A330. Couldn't make out the airline name bu...
Jump to postIf you wish to discuss covid, then cool go ahead BUT make sure it discusses aviation for the majority of the posts. The first deleted posts recently did NOT contain any aviation - in fact it ONLY discussed politics with a clear political view. So tell me, how is THAT discussing aviation? That post i...
Jump to postThis will be interesting for DL and the viability of their SYD service
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Fair point 777ER but can we please allow some discussion around it as it relates to how and when we open the border which has flow on effects to when airlines return etc. I understand your frustration and tried to keep posts, but unfortunately the majority of the deletions were Reference Deletions ...
Jump to postThis is an aviation website forum and not simply a Covid19 forum. Just deleted over 30 replies as literally none contained any real discussion on aviation but simply the vaccination performance or ICU capacity/medical team numbers (i work in health care so know full well we have a severe medical sta...
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Oh wow this is excellent news. Sky dived before so will happily jump out of a perfectly safe DC9 when next in the USA
Jump to postA day in the 'lonely' life of Kāpiti Airport's only employee https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125083335/a-day-in-the-lonely-life-of-kpiti-airports-only-employee-its-chief-executive?cid=app-iPhone Good article a long one too. There is a lot of challenges for Kapiti. Hopefully only some of the land c...
Jump to postI saw a photo today on Facebook showing two Air NZ B732s and a Saab340 at Napier/Hastings.
Did Air NZ operate the B732 into Napier/Hastings or could it have been a charter say?
Mountain Air closes after 33 years sighting the lack of bubble as a partial reason the business could not be saved https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/124631268/transtasman-bubble-too-late-for-scenic-flight-operator-who-has-touched-down-for-good https://mountainair.co.nz/ I highly doubt the airline woul...
Jump to postI did a big a deletion run last night in this thread. Why? Cause majority of the discussion was based on the lockdowns and Australian/New Zealand government and had NOTHING to do with aviation. Due to that I also had to delete a fair amount of reference posts. I know a fair amount of the replies del...
Jump to postChristchurch has a decent Trans Tasman schedule available for booking now with Air NZ The weekly flights for the week beginning 19 April are as follows all with A320s CHC to SYD 14 CHC to MEL 13 CHC to BNE 12 CHC to OOL 3 I notice that AKL to PER is daily 789 and AKL to ADL 4 weekly 789. No HBA sho...
Jump to postChristchurch has a decent Trans Tasman schedule available for booking now with Air NZ The weekly flights for the week beginning 19 April are as follows all with A320s CHC to SYD 14 CHC to MEL 13 CHC to BNE 12 CHC to OOL 3 I notice that AKL to PER is daily 789 and AKL to ADL 4 weekly 789. No HBA sho...
Jump to postHeard on the radio on Saturday that some travel agents were selling Cook Island packages for the upcoming school holidays in preparation for a travel bubble by the end of this month. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/covid-19-coronavirus-raro-still-go-cook-islands-still-confident-travel-bubble-...
Jump to post- I'm hopeful we'll have a secure border workforce within a month. Which will result in far fewer, ideally no "leaks". - I'm hopeful we'll continue to see more evidence on the global scene that the vaccination prevents spreading the disease - The above will enable a Tasman Bubble within t...
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From previous thread zkncj wrote: Zkpilot wrote: DavidByrne wrote: ‘Cos Route 2 goes to Miramar and Seaton, and to have a third bifurcation is not at all ideal in public transport network planning (even having two is not ideal). WRC should just bite the bullet and contract the Route 91 that used to ...
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