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Air New Zealand plans busy July as route resumptions gather pace
June 24th 2022
Air New Zealand (Air NZ) is to return one of its stored 777-300ERs to active service as part of preparations for the relaunch of several international services. Read More » From July, the airline will add to its network with flights from Auckland to Adelaide, Cairns, Hobart, Honolulu, Houston, New Caledonia, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and Tahiti and Queenstown to Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The flag carrier also will recommence Christchurch to Queensland’s Gold Coast and Fiji’s Nadi and Wellington to Nadi. Some of the routes will have been suspended for 820 days when returned to the air. Once the 18 services are activated, the Star Alliance airline member said its international operations will offer 40,000 seats a week, representing about 60% of capacity, the highest the carrier has had available in two years. “We are seeing first-hand how keen people are to travel again, particularly across the Tasman,” Air NZ CEO, Greg Foran, said. “Bringing aircraft out of storage, people back in, opening ports and working with new travel requirements, there is a lot to consider. The Air New Zealand team is doing it’s very best to make it happen as quickly as possible.”
