They maybe a bit heavier? But those ones mainly run to Asia so shouldn’t be an issue. The 789 fleet is getting refitted from 2024-26ish, I wouldn’t see any leaving certainly before 2030 and again that depends on owned vs leased. Heavy maintenance is every 8 years on a 787? So 16 years maybe a guide...
Jump to postUnder 10 minutes from cold dark no ground power to push back. IRS alignment and fueling is the limited factor. What if initial power up and IRS alignment was completed, but nothing else - 5mins? Well then it's not cold and dark. Also, some SOPs require the crew to realign the IRSs even if potential...
Jump to postZK-OKU entry to service has been pushed back due to issues found with its 'slats', which is why a second one (ZK-OKV) is being sought. OKU will be lucky to be here before the end of November. All A321neo 'Domestic' (ZK-OYA, OYC already) will have their engines removed, and used on the A321neo 'Inte...
Jump to postAs alluded to by Greg Foran at the CAPA gathering in Brisbane this month, NZ is "close to signing a “dry lease” on a second 777-300, on top of one that was already scheduled to enter the fleet" . This will "help cover the loss of Airbus A320neos and A321neos from its fleet over the c...
Jump to postI was on NZ2 to JFK a week or so ago and was intrigued to follow how the planned flight routing changed en route. When we took off, it appeared that the plan was to overfly Tijuana in far north Mexico. That intrigued me for a start because the A-Net conventional wisdom appears to be that airlines a...
Jump to postInteresting that the NZ announcement has not made its way to the stock market news feeds - I had thought that disclosure to the market was an absolute requirement for such a significant order as five new A320s. Or maybe putting out a general press release is sufficient? No statement to the markets ...
Jump to postSurely if NZ was to lease some additional 77W capacity, it would be more than just for 12months? The 789/10 deliveries are very paced out, not leaving much room for growth over the next 5 years. I suspect all the current 77W’s will end up staying till 2030, unless there is another downturn in trave...
Jump to postLooks like it has changed again now on NZ613 AKL - ZQN. Looking like the problem isn't with OYC. Notice that NHC hasn't flown since late Feb. If it's maintenance you would have thought that would be planned into the schedules and wouldn't cause daily disruptions. Anyone know what is happening. Seem...
Jump to postMy thoughts exactly. Where are the former Virgin Australia 777's and A330's these days? 2 of the 777s are flying for Qatar. The other 3 are still shown as stored though I understand may have recently been moved by their lessor from WTB. Like the 777s, all A330s were returned to lessors. I think mos...
Jump to postAir NZ is increasing the AKL to OOL service to 9 per week up from daily in March. Capacity is down than pre covid levels due to the absence of VA on the route. Load factor has been at 91% in the last six months. https://www.mygc.com.au/air-new-zealand-adds-more-gold-coast-flights/ The OOL service, ...
Jump to postHi-Fly A330 to be wet-leased by Air New Zealand, expected to arrive on these shores very soon. Going to predominantly be used on the AKL-PER-AKL route hi-fly supplying pilots, engineers, line planning, flight attendants, it’ll probably be like last time when Air NZ put a customer service manager an...
Jump to postWhile VA may have been left alone in DUD that's almost the black sheep based on history. Surely it's a huge risk. At HLZ, Pacific Blue was left alone for several years (2009-2012). HLZ and DUD are the only two regional airports that saw NZ face 'competitor' international flights this millennium. Fo...
Jump to postIt's got everything to do with the RFS. NZOH not being used at the moment due to RFS capability being less than required for it to be nominated. LAMEs aren't even required to meet the aircraft if it diverts. Absolutely correct duff. The NOTAM relating to downgraded RFS at NZOH has been withdrawn so...
Jump to postIt’ll be Ohakea normally, but because the RFS coverage there has been downgraded to CAT4 for the last week so that’s prevented it’s use. Enroute or destination alternate? Heading back to Fiji if they aren’t able to land in AKL is a long way to go when there are more suitable alternates closer (CHC/...
Jump to postNZ is to hold an shareholder vote, and there shareholder meeting that has been called for Thursday coming. Maybe there could be something to the VA/NZ merger rumours? https://www.nzx.com/announcements/397559 . I believe that is juist the scheduled AGM. The shareholder votes are for the items alread...
Jump to postZK-OKD has had its transponder on the sealed apron at Roswell. Hopefully this signals a return to service. Could HiFly or another charter operator be picking up some 77Es? Then wet leases back to NZ, with a crew? NZ has been said to be looking into wet lease options to get them though Christmas. In...
Jump to postOKD has almost completed end of lease work and is most definitely not coming back.
Expect to see it removed from the register in the near future (like OKA already).
Interesting rumor from ZKAviation that Emirates is investigating a Dubai-Wellington-Christchurch-Dubai service. https://www.facebook.com/ZKaviation/posts/372038911591444 ZKaviation News Emirates are looking at doing a Dubai-Wellington-Christchurch-Dubai service with their Boeing 777-200(LR) aircraf...
Jump to postNZ516 wrote:Last original 320 going
OJM is flying today AKL to CNS NZ6002 at 1100 leaving for the last time
Then onto SIN tomorrow at 1000 same flight number
Newshub, and in my personal view, the author of the article above, are prone to simplification and (at times) completely misquoting what has actually been said. Such a material change in fleet plans would be market sensitive information and would need to be disclosed. The fact that that has not happ...
Jump to postInitially it was 8 GE 787-10s. FY2023 -- 1 FY2024 -- 2 FY2025 -- 2 FY2026 -- 1 FY2027 -- 1 FY2028 -- 1 Now it's 2 GE 789s plus another 6 GE 787s. FY2024 -- 2 x 789 FY2025 -- 0 FY2026 -- 2? (787-10?) FY2027 -- 2? (787-10?) FY2028 -- 2? (787-10?) From page 32 of the 2021 Annual Financial Results 22. ...
Jump to postThe APU can’t be started unless the batteries are on and also it will auto shutdown if the batteries are turned off. The reason for this is indeed the fire protection, which is not available with the batteries off. It’s quite common however to have the aircraft parked at the gate with batteries off...
Jump to postZK-NBT wrote:I take it the 4 leased domestic A320s OAB, OJQ, OKR, OJS are leaving aswell this year or next?
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/zk-oab Looks like ZK-OAB is finally returning to service tomorrow on CHC-AKL-IVC-AKL. So that would just leave ZK-NHB (A320NEO) as the sole A320 in the fleet that is currently parked up? ZK-OJB,D,F,I,M all seem to still be active over the last few days, w...
Jump to postWith 787-10s on order, and a vastly under-utilised 789 fleet for the foreseeable future, I find it almost impossible to believe that the 77Ws will ever see service again with NZ. I’m not even convinced they will need all the 789s for some years. Roughly what is the hit from not returning these airc...
Jump to postWhat a roller coaster. I really hope we do see this. It seemed like there was no interest only a matter of weeks ago and it felt to me like there was no hope. Even Foran was saying 6months away, another outbound senior manager I spoke with said they’re looking at July 2021 at best... Now all of a s...
Jump to postWith the recent delivery of 4 more Rolls Royce engines the other day. We could see the return to the skies of ZKNZD and ZKNZI soon as both have been grounded since February. Schedule Advice Notice of a local flight planned for 10th July issued late last week. This will be ZK-NZI’s flight check afte...
Jump to posthttps://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121625414/air-nz-projects-loss-says-job-cuts-necessary 30% of staff to go at Air NZ, or about 4000 people. Ouch. This feels wrong. 15, even 20% I could understand. But 30% suggests to me that there is absolute conviction there will not be a recovery in air travel in...
Jump to postYou say might be, is there anything to support this vs scheduled MX or just an guess/assumption? The evidence is by looking at the fleet activity it is way down for FEB and now MAR as originally the 777s were meant to be back flying to HKG. Again with no PVG service the 787 fleet is less busy so it...
Jump to postCan’t help but think the JQ and NZ announcements today are all perfectly planned out.... and there has conversations between NZ/QF that are talking way deeper than there current codeshare agreement. The article above is six months old! Published on the 31st of March. It is not relevant to anything ...
Jump to postThe Boeing Communications Manager OZ/NZ will be in Auckland early next week. A sign? The Paris Air Show 17-23 June 2019 was probably the intended date, but the Reuters story has messed that up. PA515 An investor presentation is scheduled for Monday at 1.30pm and pre-dated the Reuters announcement b...
Jump to postIs it time that New Zealand/Australia look at better regulations like the EU to protect passengers when the airline is at fault? Currently New Zealand and Australian airlines aren’t really accountable to psssengers for delays caused by operational reasons etc, compared to say the EU. With NZ’s slip...
Jump to postThe transfer of all eight Jetconnect B738s 'back' to mainline is now complete. ZK-ZQH / VH-VZQ has entered mainline service this morning as QF798 BNE-CNS. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHVZQ/history/1280 Its been a while since I knew what was happening with JC, but from this they are no longe...
Jump to post777ER wrote:First picture is on twitter of ZK-NNA sitting outside the hanger. Possibly going to wear the All Black livery
While the worldwide demand for pilots is going stratospheric, there remains especially in this country a massive void between obtaining a CPL and an actual job in the right hand seat of a major carrier. Is the issue with getting a job after getting a CPL, or with getting a CPL in the first place? I...
Jump to postSo are the 15 x undisclosed A350 orders for NZ? That would be a coup. Replace 8 x 77E and 7 x 77W with a mix of -900 and -1000 models. Or maybe just the replacement of the 77E + room for growth? over the next time couple of years e.g. 5x 763's became around 12x 789s so it possible. With Tasman/Paci...
Jump to postzkojq wrote:zkncj wrote:Have heard the 77W might be a CX bird.
I said Eva Air 77Ws last month, but some of the folks here (who are usually better informed than I am) suggested that was not the case.
On this topic - I also found a video on YouTube this week of a CI 359 landing into AKL, which seems to have used one of the new flight paths (as in, I haven't seen a landing on YouTube using such a flight path over Devenport etc - though, correct me if I'm wrong) - it's awesome to watch. See: https...
Jump to postI've heard the rumour repeated several times of two 77Ws being long-term dry leased from a different Asian 77W operator. Any merits to that? It's just that, a rumour. Anyone have any update on the rumour of Etihad AUH-ADL-WLG that was going around a few months ago? Presumably the update would be EY...
Jump to postSome info now available in the public domain. http://caa.govt.nz/script/aircraft-hist ... t_ID=10089
Ex Singapore 9V-SVL. Here next month and with us for a while.
Just an update on the SQ 777 rumour. Have heard that it is not confirmed dry leasing a 777 until I think around October. Not sure where it will be deployed but I would imagine flying to SIN would make the most sense as SQ could probably still do mx on it up there and the product is familiar to pass...
Jump to postJust an update on the SQ 777 rumour. Have heard that it is not confirmed dry leasing a 777 until I think around October. Not sure where it will be deployed but I would imagine flying to SIN would make the most sense as SQ could probably still do mx on it up there and the product is familiar to pass...
Jump to postI see that CX is recruiting for its maintenance team based in AKL (Auckland - New Zealand) (Auckland - New Zealand) - excuse my ignorance, but do many airlines have their own engineering teams here? See: https://www.seek.co.nz/job/36118131?type=standout&userqueryid=2385a9e6e5def322e6f2ec022860c...
Jump to postChristianFlyer wrote:So let's say a theoretical airline wants to offer consistent low fares with no price fluctuations, or price gouging at Christmas or for football games (yes, sadly this happened).
I don't care if Air NZ does not operate regional routes but then other carriers and airlines in NZ should receive the same donation or loan/investment option in case of bankruptcy if other carriers do not receive such benefits than Air NZ should be forced to operate where those who saved it want it...
Jump to postNZD less of a lawn ornament and more of an aircraft again. Out for a test flight today, back in revenue service tomorrow.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ANZ6230
For all those who last year hypothesised the 77E fleet must be heading for early retirement, OKB departs tomorrow morning for SIN kicking off the next round of heavy maintenance and repaints. She will return in April in the new livery.
Jump to postAkl ? Talk is cheap. When a group looked at using a 752 akl/ntl no one supported it. Fokkers would have to stop at norfolk island [url] http://www.allianceairlines.com.au/docs/default-source/Fleet/fokker-70_c.pdf?sfvrsn=2[/url] Alliance claim that Fokker 70LR has an max operating range of 3,150km, ...
Jump to postThose of us with long memories will remember the ramblings of a poster and there fervent belief that Invercargill was going to be the next big thing. Sense of deja vu here (albeit with some different geography).
Jump to postThe first 789 to be delivered ZK-NZE (NZ) made its entry to service on AKL-SYD which around 3hrs each-way, with 5-10minutes being overland at each end the rest of the journey was overwater. They did an couple of training trips in the week leading up to it without passengers. The rest of the 789s en...
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