Originally Posted by
nzkarit
Sure can understand wide bodies when need to meet surge demand e.g. Rugby but day to day and reducing frequency doesn't lead me to feel that it is just a plane sitting at Auckland. To me an issue with the ATRs or similar is more likely as they are also changing the WLG-CHC flights to A320 and reducing frequency.
WLG-CHC is effectively getting 2 x A320 R/T flights to cover the 2 x R/T flights that are lost WLG-AKL. I too wonder whether the issues are ATR crew related rather than anything else due to the increasing number of ATR flight cancellations now occuring - just look at the number or ATR cancellations yesterday as an example -
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