Air New Zealand chief operations officer Bruce Parton, left, and general manager regional maintenance operations Adam McMillan look at one of Virgin Australia’s ATRs at the regional maintenance base in Nelson. A fleet of Virgin Australia’s turboprop planes are now being serviced at Air New Zealand’s regional maintenance facility in Nelson.
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Qatar chief bags Air NZ for cancelling agreement that would have connected Kiwis to vast network
Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker with Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand at the Qatar Airways press conference in Auckland. The head of Qatar Airlines Akbar Al Baker has slammed Air New Zealand for withdrawing from an agreement before it touched down on our shores, saying the move will prevent Kiwi travellers from connecting to a wide international flight network.
Pacific Islands: Why it’s Island Time
Okay, so it’s wet season for most Pacific Islands from November to March/April, so you’re not guaranteed a 100 per cent sunny holiday. But this means it’s also low season at the moment, so you can get some really amazing deals.
Gisborne bus crash survivors settle in at Auckland church
Dozens of students aged between 11 and 17 from Tonga’s Mailefihi Siu’ilikutapu College, in Vava’u, have started settling in at a church in the city, having been flown to Auckland free by Air New Zealand . The youngsters, most of them teenage boys, spoke quietly but continued to smile and joke with each other, while others slept inside.