Notes for May 9th

Pacific Blue
Embraer 190 VH-ZPM's tour of NZ has come to a close. Her tour schedule looked like this.
Tuesday 05-May-2009 PPG-CHC
Wednesday 06-May-2009 CHC-WLG-AKL
Thursday 07-May-2009 AKL-HLZ-{PMR-CHC}
Friday 08-May-2009 HLZ-IVC-CHC
Saturday 09-May-2009 CHC-BNE

You will notice the Thursday/Friday schedule looks a little odd, this was due to a rejected takeoff in Hamilton as a result of bird strike, forcing ZPM to overnight in Hamilton while parts were sourced from Australia. As a result the flights to Palmerston North were canceled.

Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand operated Boeing 737-319 ZK-NGJ on NZ739/738 AKL-BNE-AKL on Thursday 07-May-2009 in lieu of the regular A320 service.

Zeal320s EPMU unionised crew began their strike on Wednesday 07-May-2009, it is believed there have been minimal disruptions to the services.

Qantas/Jetconnect
A few issues again for Jetconenct on Thursday 07-May-2009 with the following incidents noted.

• Non standard Boeing 737-376 ZK-JNB operated the morning QF118/47 WLG-SYD-WLG.

• The afternoon's QF48/117 WLG-SYD-WLG was operated by Boeing 737-476 ZK-JTQ and routed WLG-AKL-SYD-AKL with severe delays noted.
  

• The morning's WLG-AKL-WLG flights QF2702/2707 were canceled and Boeing 737-376 ZK-JNC operating QF2759 AKL-CHC instead routed AKL-WLG-CHC.

• There were delays noted over the entire domestic network.

Codes used in this post
AKL - Auckland NZ
BNE - Brisbane Australia
CHC - Christchurch NZ
HLZ - Hamilton NZ
IVC - Invercargill NZ
PMR - Palmerston North NZ
PPG - Pago Pago American Samoa
SYD - Sydney Australia
WLG - Wellington NZ