Direct Auckland to Invercargill announced.
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Potentially requires NZ to have the aircraft to do it as well - the A320Rs don't move across to the domestic fleet for another few months yet.
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Though could got to https://skyvector.com/ and roughly work it out.
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I'm just thinking way and their were direct flights say AKL-CHC via WLG and AKL-DUD via WLG (and may be CHC as well) trying to think if there were directs to INV as well?
This is definitely the first non stop but trying to think back if there have been directs before. Just know the media confuse direct (single flight number and generally on the same aircraft) and non stop all the time.
This is definitely the first non stop but trying to think back if there have been directs before. Just know the media confuse direct (single flight number and generally on the same aircraft) and non stop all the time.
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I'm just thinking way and their were direct flights say AKL-CHC via WLG and AKL-DUD via WLG (and may be CHC as well) trying to think if there were directs to INV as well?
This is definitely the first non stop but trying to think back if there have been directs before. Just know the media confuse direct (single flight number and generally on the same aircraft) and non stop all the time.
This is definitely the first non stop but trying to think back if there have been directs before. Just know the media confuse direct (single flight number and generally on the same aircraft) and non stop all the time.
saw comment by someone on the Stuff article who recalls that the route has had non-stop B737 in the early 80s. That may have been NAC and so technically not Air NZ (which used to be international only).
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I had recollections of it being a non stop 737 service in the '90s so dug out some of my old timetables to look.
I can't find my earlier ones but looking at the 1995 and 1996 timetables there were 2 x daily 737 services NZ416 and NZ530 with NZ416 stopping at WLG on the way and NZ530 stopping at CHC.
I can't find my earlier ones but looking at the 1995 and 1996 timetables there were 2 x daily 737 services NZ416 and NZ530 with NZ416 stopping at WLG on the way and NZ530 stopping at CHC.
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From memory the early morning flight went IVC-DUD-CHC-WLG-AKL in the early and mid nineties. Then the ATR came along.
My little ears were not a fan of the bunny hopping to Auckland.
I did actually fly to Dunedin a few times.
My little ears were not a fan of the bunny hopping to Auckland.
I did actually fly to Dunedin a few times.