Notes for 05 April

Marlborough Movements
Arriving into Woodbourne from Queenstown on Saturday 04-Apr-2009 was regular visitor Falcon 2000EX VH-CRW. It later departed for Napier.

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Air New Zealand Notes
An interesting period for Air New Zealand. Everyday so far in April the A320 fleet has made domestic flights with ZK-OJD, ZK-OJE and ZK-OJG noted making the flights. All flights were with NZ65** codes.

The weekend of Saturday 04-Apr-2009 & Sunday 05-Apr-2009 saw quite a few Air New Zealand birds parked up at open days.

Air New Zealand Engineering Services held their annual staff open days in Auckland on Saturday and Christchurch on Sunday.
The line up at Auckland included
Boeing 747s ZK-NBS, ZK-NBU & ZK-SUH
Boeing 777 ZK-OKH
Boeing 737 ZK-NGK
Beech 1900D ZK-EAA

Photos from the Auckland open day can be seen HERE or HERE

Also on the Saturday was Wellington Aero Clubs open day which saw Boeing 737 ZK-FRE parked up at the aero club and open for public inspection. Photos HERE

Boeing 747 ZK-NBU which arrived into Christchurch from Bandar Seri Begwan as NZ1992 on Thursday 02-Apr-2009, remains at Christchurch to star in today's CHC ANZES open day.

Noted operating trans tasman on Saturday 04-Apr-2009 were two Boeing 737s with ZK-NGJ operating AKL-BNE-AKL NZ739/738 and ZK-NGH operating CHC-OOL-CHC as NZ957/956.

It was also noted that NZ731/732 AKL-BNE-AKL was cancelled today Sunday 05-Apr-2009.

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Pacific Blue Notes
Pacific Blue placed VH-VOQ into service on the BNE-WLG and BNE/islands routes, starting with DJ68 on Saturday 28-Mar-2009, when ZK-PBL entered the Brisbane Hanger after having arrived as DJ83 from Christchurch the same evening.

It is believed that PBL is undergoing transition maintenance before entering the VH register and starting operations for Pacific Blue (Aust) on the Islands/Bali/Wellington routes.