06 January + airline news

Tuesday 06-Jan-09
The morning started well and showed great promise then fizzled out. Arriving within 10 minutes of each other at Woodbourne were RNZAF B200 King Air's NZ1881 & NZ1882.

The only other movement noted was Sounds Air Cessna U206G ZK-ENT operating from the Picton home base to the Omaka maintenance base.

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For those interested NZ7571's route yesterday, as mentioned in the post below was WPE-WLG-OHA-BHE-CHC-OHA-WLG-WPE.

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Pacific Blue Update
Pacific Blue are currently using Virgin Blue Boeing 737-8FE VH-VOX in their operations. VOX is covering for ZK-PBF which is believed to be undergoing maintenance in Christchurch. VOX positioned into Christchurch on Sunday 04-Jan-2009 from Brisbane as DJ9096.

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Air New Zealand News
Air New Zealand Airbus A320s are having a few minor mechanical issues with the following noted:

Sunday 04-Jan-2009
NZ971 HLZ-BNE operated by ZK-OJA diverted to AKL for an hour before continuing on to Brisbane.

Monday 05-Jan-2009
NZ995/966/967/992 HLZ-SYD-DUD-SYD-HLZ operated by ZK-OJG made the first two legs HLZ-SYD-DUD with the return legs cancelled.

OJG then poitioned DUD-AKL as NZ6038 this morning 06-Jan-2009.

ZK-OJI positioned AKL-HLZ to operated todays NZ971/962/963/804 HLZ-BNE-DUD-BNE-CHC

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Airport Codes Used In This Post:
BHE - Blenheim/Woodbourne
BNE - Brisbane
CHC - Christchurch
DUD - Dunedin
HLZ - Hamilton
OHA - Ohakea
SYD - Sydney
WLG - Wellington
WPE - Whenuapai