Air New Zealand Air Points - Air NZ 777-200 (??KA??) in NUE

Just out of curiosity: I was flying out of my homebase NUE (Nuremberg, Germany) on monday. NUE is a small regional airport, and I was surprised to see a Air New Zealand 777 parked among the BAe Avros, CRJ and Dash-8 that normally fly out of here. (Plus NZ does not fly to germany at all).

Anybody got an idea about the reason for this unusual visit?

Cheers

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The 777 is currently operating AKL-LAX-LHR-LAX-AKL and only has a few hours in LHR.

I assume LHR is not closed (nothing on BA forum) so must be diversion related to the specific flight - either pax, crew or a/c related.

It was a charter flight NZ1982 CHC-YVR-NUE. It then returned NUE-YVR-AKL as NZ6083, which suggests it came home empty (6000 flight numbers are normally repositioning flights).

I have no idea who or what the charter was for.

If the reg had KA in it, it would have been ZK-OKA