Notes for June 26 to July 01

Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand continue to operate charters associated with the Simon & Garfunkel tour of Australia.

Monday 29-June-2009 saw A320-232 ZK-OJN operate NZ6045/1946/6048 SYD-MEL-ADL-SYD to move the tour party from Melbourne to Adelaide.

Tuesday 30-June-2009 saw A320-232 ZK-OJH position from CHC to ADL as NZ6045.
Wednesday 01-July-2009 saw ZK-OJH operate NZ1943/6046/6045 ADL-PER-ADL-CHC as the tour moved from Adelaide to Perth.

Other NZ movements noted in this period include:
Friday 26-June-2009 Boeing 767-319ER ZK-NCJ operated NZ731/732 AKL-BNE-AKL in leiu of the standard A320.

Sunday 28-June-2009 saw A320-232 ZK-OJC operate NZ6313 positioning from WLG to CHC to start the day, and A320-232 ZK-OJN position from AKL to WLG to complete the day.

ZK-OJC arrived into AKL in the early hours of Tuesday 30-June-2009 as NZ6840 from Sydney

Wednesday 01-July-2009 saw Boeing 737-319 ZK-NGH operate NZ195/196 CHC-MEL-CHC in leiu of an A320.

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Pacific Blue
DJ68 BNE-WLG on Monday 29-June-2009 operated by VH-VOQ was delayed from 1800 29-June-2009 until 0115 30-June-2009 resulting in the aircraft arriving into WLG at 0650, it then departed as DJ69 at 0750

Pacific Blue operated former NZ based ZK-PBL, now VH-VUQ on DJ68/69 BNE-WLG-BNE overnight Tuesday 30-June-2009/Wednesday 01-July-2009

Pacific Blue also made and unusual aircraft change in SYD on Monday 29-June-2009 with ZK-PBF operating DJ182 TBU-SYD then continuing onto AKL as DJ54 while ZK-PBD operating DJ73 from Christchurch operated a delayed return service SYD-TBU DJ183 before continuing onto AKL as DJ178

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Jetstar
Jetstar continued to shuffle their NZ fleet around with the following changed noted:
Monday 29-June-2009 saw A320-232 VH-VQC swap in MEL for VH-VQE on the CHC trans-tasman run.
Tuesday 30-June-2009 saw A320-232 VH-VQD come off AKL trans-tasman service and enter domestic services while A320-232 VH-VQS completed the opposite transition, before being swapped in OOL for VH-VQU.

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Qantas Jetconnect
Qantas continue to regularly use their operational spare Boeing 737-376 ZK-JNC to cover maintenance of their fleet.
25-June-2009 it operated AKL-SYD-AKL covering for B734 ZK-JTQ
26-June-2009 it operated AKL-SYD-AKL-BNE-AKL covering for ZK-JTQ
27-June-2009 it operated AKL-BNE-AKL-BNE-AKL covering for ZK-JTQ
28-June-2009 it operated AKL-BNE-AKL-BNE-AKL covering for ZK-JTQ
30-June-2009 it operated AKL-BNE-AKL-BNE-AKL covering for ZK-JND & ZK-JTR, (ZK-JND had a few issues in WLG necessitating ZK-JTR to operate from AKL to WLG as QF6171 then operate the scheduled QF118/47 before positioning back to AKL as QF6172)

On Friday 26-June-2009 ZK-JND operating as QF37/133 from WLG to MEL and AKL was forced to cancel the QF133 portion of its flight due to Fog in AKL. The corresponding QF132 AKL-MEL was canceled the following morning with JND beginning its day as QF38 MEL-WLG.