Aviation in New Zealand and Oceania

Regional Express and Griffith City Council have entered into a five year partnership agreement until 30 June 2023. The partnership agreement will see the introduction of the Regional Express Community Fare scheme and an additional 10 weekly flights between Griffith and Sydney, adding some 17,000 seats to the route annually. In addition to the implementation of […]

Air New Zealand has elected not to operate its seasonal service between Auckland and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2019 due to inconsistent customer demand. The twice weekly service, currently in its third season, has proved popular with Kiwi families in the key school holiday periods however outside of that timeframe demand has not […]

The Governing Board of the oneworld global airline alliance has nominated Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce to serve as its Chairman for the next two years. He succeeds Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo, who is transitioning from the airline to join Finland’s Metso Corporation as its new CEO. Pekka Vauramo assumed oneworld’s chairmanship in June 2017. […]

Air New Zealand confirmed its first A321neo (new engine option) aircraft will enter commercial service in mid-November. Air New Zealand is investing in 13 Airbus neo aircraft (seven A321neos and six A320neos) to replace the A320 fleet that currently operates Tasman and Pacific Island services and a further seven Airbus A321neo for anticipated domestic network […]