In addition to the A388 in Baku yesterdays QF43 SYD-DPS diverted to CGK due to weather at DPS, crew timed out so they overnighted in Jakarta. It’s due to do CGK-DPS-SYD later today Also regarding Bali flights all VA flights have been stopping off at DRW for fuel the past couple of days https://www....
Jump to postInside information from VA - BNE-DUD is going to return in 2023. It was the most profitable route in the VA trans tasman network.
Also, whispers QF is considering DUD as well.
This route was served by Jetstar Asia until August 2022. Qantas last operated this route until October 2006 Interesting how versatile the 190 have been for QF - could a 717 have done this prior? I hope we see some more interesting routes with the 220 when they arrive, although I am a little skeptic...
Jump to postmrkerr7474 wrote:Anyone know what was up with QF121 SYD to ZQN diverting to CHC today and then that aircraft operating CHC to BNE while a MEL to CHC aircraft then operated CHC to ZQN to SYD as the delayed QF122?
Any locals know what's happening with Bonza Airline? Are they dead now? All the ones that were being prepped in the US are seemingly cancelled, and getting repainted all white with fully assigned N registrations. I think there were 2 or 3 that made it to Australia - what's happened with those? Have...
Jump to postThis article would suggest Qantas believes it to be real. They should treat others bags as they would treat their own, this behaviour is unacceptable. However this does raise a number of concerns and why one would willingly risk their jobs to share such content on social media that they know they w...
Jump to postZK-NZJ 789 operated NZ 559/570 AKL-CHC-AKL. A rare domestic wide body, not sure why, Friday afternoon high loads or if something else was cancelled? Two CHC-AKL flights canx today. If I recall correctly, this has is the third time a 789 has done AKL-CHC-AKL since August. Plus yesterdays weather chaos
Jump to postAnother obscure one that would make the list is Alexandra (ALR) at 1200m Good find, years ago there was flights from Alex to CHC with an airline called Goldfields Air. Back before it became an NZ subsidiary, Mt Cook (NM) operated a daily(?) service ZQN-ALX-DUD for many years, using an Islander. Mai...
Jump to postApparently so. They've even been allocated registration marks for nine frames - one more than the intial eight they planned for. They will have to start looking for more places to send the extra aircraft to. Speaking of Bonza, any updates on their AOC application process? The whole thing seems to b...
Jump to postDoes anyone know when Jetstar repaints are starting into the new livery?
Jump to postBatik Air Malaysia have quietly opened bookings for nonstop Melbourne-KL flights, to commence 06/12 (ex-Malaysia). The flights will be operated with the 737 MAX 8, as follows: KUL-MEL OD173 0910-2005 Days 1/3/5/7 OD175 1925-0620 Days 2/4/6 MEL-KUL OD176 0720-1255 Days 1/3/5/7 OD174 2105-0240 Days 3...
Jump to postNZ124 MEL-AKL was cancelled on Thursday 1st, 77W ZK-OKO, not sure if it was aircraft related or possibly crew sickness. Positioning MEL-AKL as NZ6050. At least no knock on effect for the moment with an additional 77W in service. OKN was on the ground In AKL and did NZ6, not sure if OKN was original...
Jump to postAny update on Virgin Australia coming to NZ Only for the planned Queenstown flights for the foreseeable future. Unlikely to be flying anywhere else in NZ when their international 737 fleet is planned to make revenue elsewhere (Other South Pacific ex SYD and BNE and OOL-Bali) I must have missed the ...
Jump to postHey, a couple months back we had a conversation about EK potentially coming to WLG with their 777-200LRs, and we kind of concluded it's extremely unlikely for them to come, atleast with their current fleet. Is there any chance that they could fly to WLG with their 787s or A350s when they get delive...
Jump to postFrom the Air NZ 2022 Annual Results Presentation. Slide 7 Domestic Introduction of domestic A321neo fleet from the second half of FY23, boosting seats on jet routes So delivery of ZK-OYA, ZK-OYB and ZK-OYC will be delayed about 6 months but they are still arriving in FY2023, as per Slide 34, as is ...
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. I ...
Jump to postZK-OKD has had its transponder on the sealed apron at Roswell. Hopefully this signals a return to service.
Jump to postAn XLR could still do regular 321 routes if needed as well, its not restricted to routes over 4500km Surely you would need to utilise the aircraft on the longer sectors more often than not to justify the extra weight and maintenance associated with extra fuel tanks fuel lines fuel pumps etc You wou...
Jump to postQantas59 wrote:Has there been any update or discussion regarding the future of 777s ZK-OKN, OKO and OKQ recently. Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere.
Cheers.
I can 100% assure you SGN would not have happened without the 763. It was a 'gamble' that would not have been taken without it. Did I pay off? Well it remained with the 789 for a while. Will we see it back? Very unlikely. The A321XLR's will be interesting to watch over the next coupe of years, and ...
Jump to postLooking into the schedules the final Wellington to Whangarei and Wellington to Kerikeri flights are finishing on the 14th of December and from the 15th none are listed direct all are going via AKL. We knew they were a temporary offering plus they can get more sectors in per day running back and for...
Jump to postAir NZ is putting A320 jet services between Christchurch and Invercargill for the peak summer.season. This is a big increase in seats over the 68 seat ATR that usually flies this route. https://i.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/126998900/air-nz-adds-a320-jet-service-between-christchurch-and-inverc...
Jump to postHighly unlikely - seems a complete waste of an aircraft for 6 hours flying a small marginal route which can easily be connected via AKL, WLG or CHC. Im sure they have much better uses for aircraft - plenty of 1 hour sectors that could be flown almost 3 times return in the same amount of time. Its n...
Jump to postJust some of my thoughts..... I feel that all the airlines that previously served this country will return in time, likely over a rolling 12-24 month period. I feel that we were lucky in the respect that the majority of what could have been termed "vanity routes/carriers" of the 2015-2018...
Jump to postZK-NHF has been delivered. Has flown TLS-YQX two days ago, YQX-LAX-HNL yesterday (both NZ6095). Presumably it will fly HNL-AKL tomorrow? ZK-NHF should be HNL-RAR-AKL tomorrow as NZ6095. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/zk-nhf There's a nice FR24 photo of it at LAX. Interesting to see A32...
Jump to postI recall seeing a photo of Air NZ Q300 ZK-NEG sitting in Nelson looking rather forlorn. Looked as if it had been stripped for parts. Does anybody know it's current status? With Covid has it infact been scrapped? It shows on Flt radar 24 but doesn't look to have been active at all Will be returned t...
Jump to postzkncj wrote:With the current Covid issues in New Zealand, and no end in the short-term has NZ started to park up some of the airbus fleet into longer term storage?
Air NZ A320-271N ZK-NHF (msn 10589) with test registration F-WWTM has had it's first flight. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-wwtm PA515 So both NHE and NHF will almost arrive in NZ together with both now completed. A lot of the international OJ series have gone in the last two years a...
Jump to postAuckland is going to have a major issues in the next 10-50 years, if they every want another Airport. Both site that could of been expanded are now being rapidly built in with houses. First, there's nothing that suggests Ardmore is slated for closure, just an emotive appeal on FB which is trying to...
Jump to postOn 13 Sep Air NZ A320-232 ZK-OJB (msn 2090) had an AKL-AKL test flight as NZ6233. On 14 Sep it went AKL-RAR-HNL as NZ6096, then on 15 Sep HNL-LAX-TUS also as NZ6096. Arrived LAX about 40 mins ago. I expect it will be broken up in TUS as were ZK-OJD and ZK-OJF. So just two of the regional A320-232s ...
Jump to postPeople keep saying build more roads. We know there'd be a fair amount of traffic between Queenstown and a Tarras airport. Especially to Christchurch too if you close down Christchurch airport to fold them in into one. That would be enough to be worth putting in a proper rail link between all the lo...
Jump to postWhich would make senses, they own 5x of the 77Ws so there exit date should be pretty flexible. Wonder if the 4x owned 77E's have been sold yet? and coming to an coke can near you soon. I haven't been following this but out of curiosity is the 777-200 still part of their fleet at this current stage?...
Jump to postZkpilot wrote:6x 77W from next year then down to 5 in 2025 then none in 2027 (I’d imagine that this is very flexible and that it should be pretty easy to keep them on if needed).
16x 787 from 2024 (but likely more).
Q300 to stay on until at least 2025.
Video of the recent terminal expansion of Dunedin Airport from last year. But still a job very well done and a great asset for the city. https://youtu.be/ijRHMxcRkGg The problem with the new security, is that it's about half the speed it used to be. They take up to an hour to screen the load of one...
Jump to postWRE-WLG is an route were an partnership could come into play with Sounds Air with one of there Heart AeroSpace ES-19 could come into play. NZ exited the 19 seater market an while back, but with 19 seater electrics coming into the market that could change things. The ES-19 only needed a 750m runway,...
Jump to postI could definitely see recommencement of WRE-WLG Q300 non-stops under the scenario where turbo<>jets would have to change terminals. Has that route been flown previously? I’d expect that the Q300 would take a pretty big payload penalty out of WRE on that route which would likely make it uneconomica...
Jump to postDoes NZ currently have an Issue with there ATR 72-600 fleet? My CHC-ZQN flight this afternoon has been canceled, and rebooked onto an new flight operated by an A320NEO. Reason being was 'engineering requirements' sitting in the CHC lounge there seems to been an few other ATR flights cancelled for t...
Jump to postzkncj wrote:https://covid19.govt.nz/travel/quarantine-free-travel/australia/victoria/
The bubble with VIC is popped again from 2am Friday, and will be reviewed on Monday.
Hi folks. It's been many years since I have visited your beautiful country (17 years ago, but I did stay for 5 weeks and put 4200km on my rental car). As our schedule got compressed towards the end, we did take a few regional flights. I'm curious to know if airplanes like the Tecnam P2012 Traveller...
Jump to postAlso KIX x3 RAR-SYD x1 RAR-LAX x1 You could probably squeeze that in with 14 789s but there wouldn’t be a lot of slack, so 3 77Ws on LAX/IAH or something. Who knows what short haul will be, currently shows the following 789s ex AKL, most can be done between long haul, some early US/PVG/PER aircraft...
Jump to postAnother possibility for a Regional jet is the AKL NSN route which is sometimes 12 turboprops a day. Plus in the summer peak I have seen it at 14 per day. The big problem I know is of course the short runway at NSN just 1347m. Not likely to ever be extended as well. But the demand is strong already ...
Jump to postEven though my comments my not reflect this - I would love nothing more than regional jets. The topic is coupled by the huge gap in the equipment NZ has at it's disposal. Here's some questions and thoughts. ⋅ What is or Is there an issue that needs to be solved? ⋅ If so, Is that...
Jump to postA220 question - I know this has been discussed before. Would a fleet of both A222 and A223 be a possibility in the future? Think about it - A222 could be used to increase frequency on thicker regional routes, possibly opening new ones (HLZ-ZQN? TRG-ZQN? NSN-ZQN? - as a thinking point) and A223 coul...
Jump to postFound a post by 'Zkpilot' 03 Sep 2019 talking about the difference between the regional 320ceos and the domestic 320ceos. The domestic 320s have smaller galleys, no life rafts, no IFE, one less lavatory, less bulkheads and no HF radio. The weight saving enables the aircraft to get to cruising altit...
Jump to postZK-NAF is my recollection as well. It was one of only three non-hush kitted 737-200s in the NZ fleet at the time it was leased to Royal Tongan. Replaced by a 757-200 which lasted until the airlines demise. Ah the WR 752, I remember hearing they couldn't fill the 732 so the 752 must have had very go...
Jump to postI just saw an interesting feature on NZ Civil Aircraft this morning... Cessna 208B ZK-MCS to be converted into an autonomous freighter prototype by Merlin Labs NZ (second photo from the top, not much has been done aside from the addition of Merlin Labs titles). http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2021/06/...
Jump to post3 configurations with 7 of each seems to much? Flexibility sure but complexity aswell with small sub fleets. I don’t see them going smaller probably another A320NEO order to replace the sharklet fleet in time mid late 2020s. I’m half expecting the domestic a321N’s to be cross shared with the Intern...
Jump to postI would have thought that they're Sounds Air/Air Chathams sized routes. On the PC12 CHC-WKA is scheduled for 50mins and that's 297km using the GCMap tool. NPE-ZQN is 911km - so are we looking at 2 and half hours plus without a toilet? Would be a hard sell -given NZ offer via WLG and CHC. Around two...
Jump to postI would have thought that they're Sounds Air/Air Chathams sized routes. Agree - I think the opportunities are more with the smaller destinations that currently arent really served. Thinking Wanaka (only from CHC with Sounds Air) and Kaikoura (ad-hoc service from WLG) could both be expanded by the s...
Jump to posthttps://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/295933/qantas-adds-seven-routes-increases-widebody-flying/ Would Air NZ consider new domestic routes to expand its business while International remains mainly closed off. Over the ditch Qantas and Jetstar have launched 45 new domestic routes since ...
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