Movements + Weather Chaos

Monday 09-Feb-2009
Ardmore based National Business Review C501 N800DT operated through Woodbourne today arriving from Dunedin around 1220 and departing home to Ardmore around 2115.

Wednesday 11-Feb-2009
RNZAF Airtrainer NZ1997 was noted arriving into Woodbourne. Also noted was RNZAF Iroquoi NZ3816 which has been operating above Woodbourne all week.

Weather woes
Some troubles with the weather in central NZ this afternoon. SPAR's (Special Aerodrome Report) were issued for both Wellington and Christchurch, and problems were also noted at Woodbourne and Nelson.

NZ2445 WLG-BHE was cancelled and NZ8227 AKL-BHE diverted to Nelson, - NZ8227 was then noted diverting again from NSN to WLG! Meaning the poor passengers were couped up in the Q300 for well over two hours, by the time it finally made a successful approach into WLG.

NZ2448 BHE-WLG managed to depart and noted they entered the cloud base at only 450ft!!!

Also noted on the Air New Zealand site were the unusual flight numbers NZ2946 & NZ2947 BHE-WLG and WLG-BHE. NZ2946 operated and reported the cloud base to be at 480ft

Numerous flights into WLG and NSN were noted circling and making multiple missed approach/go around's until they were able to land.

Qantas Update
Jetconnect once again operated a non business class bird on QF126/125 AKL-BNE-AKL on Tuesday 10-Feb-2009 with ZK-JNB operating the flight.

On Wednesday 11-Feb-2009 Boeing 737-476 ZK-JTR was parked up for maintenance - the second Wednesday in a row that the QF fleet has been down more than one bird.

Pacific Blue Update
Pacific Blue has been noted cancelling the evening DJ175/174 BNE-NAN-BNE flight on 16 & 23 Jan and 6 & 8 Feb.