Air NZ is considering making Covid vaccination compulsory for its staff. This is great to see and shows a change in attitude at the airline from a previous softly softly approach. https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/126246260/air-nz-proposes-making-covid19-vaccination-compulsory-for-4000-staf...
Jump to postAir NZ is considering making Covid vaccination compulsory for its staff. This is great to see and shows a change in attitude at the airline from a previous softly softly approach. https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/126246260/air-nz-proposes-making-covid19-vaccination-compulsory-for-4000-staf...
Jump to postBut what is a low or medium risk country......the genie is our of the bottle in Australia and it will only get worse ascrime goes on there. Is Uk/Europe or the USA now medium risk? The devil will be in the detail! Medium and High risk is highly subjectively interpreted by people and border workers ...
Jump to postThe 77W was misused/misinterpreted by NZ, they never used it to the aircraft potential because they foolishly opted to order the 772 very late in the production line when they already had the 787 delayed,. They should have standardised on the 77W the 77W fleet should have been 1) better suited to co...
Jump to postmaybe he was looking for answers Maybe he just picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue? . Gold. Now picturing Lloyd Bridges knocking on the cockpit door and deploying the slide and leaping out the way he leaped out of the control tower in Airplane. Impaired mental health or not, Conscious decis...
Jump to posta7ala wrote:WLG easily.
The schedules are very much written in pencil right now, I would not expect half of what they currently have 'scheduled'. For example, I do not expect that ORD/SFO/YVR will feature any time soon for passenger operations, and there are plenty more that might make a very low frequency appearance below...
Jump to postIf they are ex Lion Air, the airframes have had a reprieve from being written off before their time in dodgy circumstances :lol: Good on DL for sharp business acumen and taking advantage of what has been a negative time for airlines and leasing companies alike, I am sure it will pay off in the not t...
Jump to postI wonder if they have been filling them well we might see the A321 domestic order brought forward somewhat. When's it due for first delivery now? 2023? If they can shift slots maybe, but I don't think so. For the most part, fleet flexibility is more important in this fluctuating and unpredictable d...
Jump to postI notice the A321 seems to be doing lots of domestic flying, would this be intentional or due to positioning flights to do intl sectors? A combination of things including maintenance on domestic fleet but mostly just best aircraft utilising They use A321s as scheduled peaks, disrupt recovery and al...
Jump to postBe aware that the 72h ahead is good, but the moment you get disrupted, a flight gets delayed, cancelled etc you can be denied uplift on the recovery flight if your test is over 72h old, so I recommend doing between 24 and 48h ahead to keep you current even with a 24h delay. In my experience in airli...
Jump to postI don't support or agree with the levi. But many European "backpackers" spend some considerable time here, months in many cases. $160NZD is around €94 Euro or thereabouts. Not a huge expense if you're spending 60-90 days in a country. Plan to buy a old beat up van and drive around for a m...
Jump to postI just booked a ticket from LIM-IQT on a Capricornio 747SP from a very nice Nigerian prince who is also sending me 10,000,000 dollars.
Jump to postMuseum displays Boeing 747-100 Boeing 707 Caravelle Concorde Convair 880 Lockheed Sabreliner aircraft at airport (private invitation) Bombardier Challenger 602 DC10 water tanker C130 water tanker IL76 C46 Commando Carvair DC6 DH5 Kingair Super Guppy Aircraft at airport (work) MH 772 (Inc both the il...
Jump to postWell, I for one want them to succeed and take delivery. Commercial aviation needs something positive and new going for it.
Jump to postSurely not another Ewen Wilson initiative? I'd hope not, any airline attached with his name is surely destined to fail as many people know of his previous failures - in this climate of low travelling consumer confidence that's a death knell for a startup. At least a totally new outfit would be free...
Jump to postCNS used to drop away every low season to loads that make HBA look good. This trend continued with PR when they operated AKL-CNS-MNL
Jump to postWould an ATR HLZ-ZQN be that bad? Surely it would only be around 2hr30 flying time. Thats still faster than transiting WLG or CHC. What is really in question is possibly the specification of the flight catering domestically, not the aircraft type. Personally, I think a limited buy onboard option (t...
Jump to postI liked the Aerion concept, and I liked the pursuit of advancing aviation. Sadly it is an expensive enterprise and the economic shock of governments globally devaluing their currencies by printing monopoly money has not yet been felt fully, which makes everyone rather bearish when it comes to invest...
Jump to postI think if it upped the range game as the 762ER or 342 did to the 763ER /343 .it might find a little more success in the current market but ultimately the 789 fits more to being a direct replacement for a wider range of popular previous models 333/343/772/763 vs 788 332/762 As with anything though, ...
Jump to postDaCubbyBearBar wrote:But what really concerns me is how the government knew who was on the flight!
I love these milk run routes, really hope it returns to that again, I think F27s used to operate WLG-WHK-AKL, I think that was a good way to provide air service to a place like WHK. The closest these days is the NZ478 DUD-WLG-AKL these days (WLG-PMR-HLZ too if still operating?). The 737-200 spiritua...
Jump to postI think the 732s tended to operate as through flights eg: AKL-PMR-CHC rather than AKL-NPE-AKL, so I would expect that the NPE operation might have been the same kind of thing. The F27s operated the same way.
Jump to postThe fact that the market is already pretty saturated in terms of rail adoption seems that the French people have already chosen it themselves. without government mandate. With the exception for transits, it's still acceptable - and anyone else can still fly via elsewhere if they choose. Having said ...
Jump to postEven though Australia doesn't have a vaccine passport programme yet, vaccination records are stored in the Medicare account.d. Even with all that, the passport chip (or indeed the software used to process)may well not be configurable to that additional information ( also any info stored on pprt is ...
Jump to postNZ321 wrote:aerorobnz wrote:I don't see any new Asian ports for NZ, but I do see EK continuing ex KUL/BKK/DPS with passenger operations to compensate
So you're saying no passenger ops to CAN, correct?
I don't see any new Asian ports for NZ, but I do see EK continuing ex KUL/BKK/DPS with passenger operations to compensate
Jump to postI am loathed to predict 'post covid' routes because realistically we are already at a point where the world is waiting for the border to open so it can determine what market there still is. The longer the border remains closed the harder it is to predict what will happen, and the more chance the mar...
Jump to postFurther confirmation that Virgin will only be returning to Queenstown later this year. While all other NZ ports are on hold. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/05/virgin-australia-removes-auckland-wellington-and-christchurch-for-the-time-being-due-to-subdued-demand.html Makes sense. VA shou...
Jump to postNow I have watched videos of it being presented I feel a bit more used to it, The more I look at it the more I think it looks like a Bac 1-11 NG in overall proportions (esp the vert/hori stab). The nose also reminds me of two things 1) Cleopatra's nose (Asterix and Cleopatra) and also a Meerkat nose.
Jump to postThat article should read "NZ Govt trying to wean the country off tourism and air travel in general." Their interpretation of backpackers is outdated, long gone are the days of backpacker hostels for $10 a night and pot noodles from the supermarket, couch surfing and hitchhiking. The number...
Jump to postAs a falcon 8x fan, It's a shame they didn't improve that format with better range and new fuselage width - it's not elegant anymore. The 3 engines were just as fuel-efficient as the 650 and 6500 competitors, and are not subject to the same edto restrictions, and the short-field performance was alwa...
Jump to postThe border is shut from NZs perspective, not NSWs. Hence passengers to SYD not from. NZ101 ccld, NZ103 full, but positioning back empty. CHC WLG ZQN all canceled.
Jump to postthe RAR A321 schedule will be quickly recycled for trans-tasman frequencies to places that demand it, but don't warrant a 787. like ADL, OOL, CNS, HBA etc or to beefing up multiple daily frequencies to BNE/SYD/MEL Even if the 787 is not full, RAR would be most happy about the cargo hold space that w...
Jump to postIt is obvious from working throughout the pandemic at the airport that if it was allowed to, it would bounce back much more quickly than it has done the moment the government restrictions are eased. From what I can see there is still plenty of demand if given the chance to prosper, but little in the...
Jump to postDUD is likely not a priority for any airline. I think when you compare other cities of the same size globally the cities that do have international services are seasonal/tourist markets like CNS/BGI or business centres/capital cities like LUX, and those which are neither are remote, like DRW. There ...
Jump to postthey just converted another 4 to upper deck cargo configuration (sans Y class seats), it surprises me they aren't going to do so for the whole fleet right now.
Jump to postIf this is aimed at me, I think you're way off the mark.. It wasn't meant as an attack on you directly, apologies if that was the perception While your current post regarding your personal conundrum over flights vs emissions prompted my thoughts on the matter, I wasn't referring specifically to pre...
Jump to postI think it was always going to be WA that let the bubble deflate first, they were always the most cautious of the states and it took all of 4 days. Let us hope that it returns quickly. If it does extend, then it risks being left out in the cold completely. Humans in general not just kiwis are design...
Jump to postBut also surprising that neither NZ or QF (or JQ) have come in with any special promotional fares to relaunch which is intetesting. Are they thinking that the initial pax are prepared to pay higher fares. I suspect we will see some promotional offers soon. low frequency and limited capacity do noth...
Jump to postPA515 wrote:
Saw a comment recently that A320NEO ZK-NHE, due for delivery in August, will be in the Star Alliance livery.
PA515
Part of the monthly storage maintenance regime, for the 777s.. There are 2 787s out of service with defects, so still plenty of spare capacity to cope at this stage. If the 777s haven't been restored by September they probably won't, is my understanding
Jump to postThat was worse than I thought it would be and he deserves everything he gets for that one. Everything he gets? He "resigned" from his role and continues to fly for Wizz. That's all he got. Well if he did that at an airline I know, that would result in at least a drop of salary in the orde...
Jump to postI was expecting to come in here and read a pathetic tale of media overreaction and hyperbole. That was worse than I thought it would be and he deserves everything he gets for that one. Not surprised it was Wizz or an LCC, but it could have been any airline these days as they are all as bad as each o...
Jump to postAs per Airport company passenger numbers for those flights they are still pretty light. QF166 XZB 33 JQ202 36 QF156 EBQ 58 QF126 QPD 33 QF146 QPI 69 QF148 QPC 11 QF158 QPF 2 Ouch. I'm amazed they didn't swap to 738 Would assume the Australia to New Zealand loads are strong? And the availability of ...
Jump to postzkncj wrote:SYD/MEL are both getting 3x A330 service from QF tomorrow.
Most people will not even ask the question of what type, the question is whether in the long term the repeat traffic returns once they experience it for the first time. I suspect that the general public is not so discerning in New Zealand. We have not been spoiled for jet services like the USA for e...
Jump to postI am not sure it is a full part out, just the relevant bits that regularly need replacing on the fleet, and some of the less common ones as they have happened on other members of the fleet. Same as NZE was a parts mule when it had the engine blowout and fuselage damage. It was stripped all sorts of ...
Jump to postThe Convairs are brilliant. Comfortable well-padded seats, better legroom than a 787. Saabs are not, and they are noisier than anything bar an EMB-120.
Jump to postI'm sure this will shock people. :P https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/440536/mike-pero-grounds-pasifika-air-plan I would like to tell you "I told you so" re not getting off the ground but I'm not sure if anyone disagreed with me :rotfl: I think it is the one topic in this forum we unani...
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