Air New ZealandPeriod
15-August-2009 to 09-October-2009During the period since my last post Air New Zealand have been noted making a large number of positioning flights between Auckland and Christchurch with their A320 fleet, some have been done with scheduled services, while others have been straight relocation flights. I wont list them all here as they aren't all that interesting.
However on
Wednesday 09-September-2009 ZK-OJM operated a charter flight
AKL-WLG as
NZ1911, then positioned to CHC as
NZ6611,
Friday 11-September-2009 saw
ZK-OJH also operate a positioning flight
AKL-WLG as
NZ6613 and charter back to AKL as
NZ1912. These charters were associated with the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party's visit to NZ
Trans-Tasman relocation/positioning flights noted during the period were as follows:
- Saturday 22-August-2009 ZK-OJB SYD-AKL NZ6314
- Friday 09-October-2009 ZK-OJB operated NZ769 WLG-BNE then went u/s before ferrying to AKL later that evening as NZ6849
- Friday 09-October-2009 ZK-OJC was noted operating to/from AKL as NZ6840
Maintenance was undertaken on
ZK-OJE from
Monday 31-August-2009 until
Monday 21-September-2009. This was to correct the wing fairing issue, previously noted in several A320 aircraft worldwide.
Tuesday 22-September-2009 saw
ZK-OJF enter maintenance for the same issue.
_________Pacific Blue- Tuesday 15-September-2009 saw VH-VUM position from MEL to PER as DJ9033
- Wednesday 16-September-2009 saw VH-VUM operate a charter PER-XCH (Christmas Island) and return XCH-PER-MEL as DJ9001/9002.
- Saturday 19-September-2009 saw the inaugural weekend DJ3252/3255 AKL-ZQN-AKL service operated by ZK-PBD, which also operated the second flight on Sunday 20-September-2009
- Sunday 20-September-2009 saw VH-VOQ go unserviceable in DenpasarTuesday 22-September-2009 saw the inaugural DJ98/97 APW-BNE-APW service, operated by ZK-PBM, this replaces one of the APW-SYD-APW services.
- Tuesday 22-September-2009 also saw VH-VOQ return to service after its repair in Denpasar
- Wednesday 23-September saw disruptions due to the dust storms in SYD, with ZK-PBD operating DJ71 CHC-SYD diverting to BNE before continuing its schedules service by operating DJ7155 to NAN.
- Monday 28-September-2009 saw ZK-PBG enter the maintenance hanger in CHC for scheduled maintenance.
- Monday 28-September-2009 also saw VH-VOX arrive into CHC from MEL to cover the maintenance period of PBG
- Sunday 04-October-2009 saw ZK-PBG operate a test flight CHC-test-CHC as DJ9040 at completion of its maintenance.
- Monday 05-October-2009 saw VH-VOX return to MEL from CHC and ZK-PBG re-enter service after its maintenance period.
- Thursday 08-October-2009 saw VH-VUF on the scheduled DJ156 NAN-ADL divert to BNE as DJ7156
- Friday 09-October-2009 saw VH-VUF continue to ADL from BNE as DJ7158
Pacific Blue have also increased their Australia to Denpasar Bali flights. Flights operate from SYD, BNE, MEL, ADL and PER.
SYD-DPS is now 3x weekly Mo, Tu, Fr
MEL-DPS is now 4x weekly Mo, Tu, Th, Su
ADL-DPS is now 3x weekly Mo, We, Fr
BNE-DPS is 6x weekly Mo, Tu, We, Th, Sa, Su
PER-DPS is daily
_________JetstarNot much to report for JQ in this period the rotation of its fleet between Australian domestic, New Zealand domestic and Trans-Tasman flights continued.
The only change was in the usage of aircraft in the NZ domestic schedule.
The original useage had the 3 aircraft operating the following pattern
- aircraft 1; CHC-AKL-CHC-AKL-CHC-WLG-CHC-AKL-CHC
- aircraft 2; AKL-WLG-AKL-ZQN-CHC-AKL-CHC-AKL-CHC-AKL
- aircraft 3; AKL-CHC-ZQN-AKL-WLG-AKL-WLG-AKL
this has recently been changed to the following pattern
- aircraft 1; CHC-AKL-CHC-AKL-CHC-WLG-CHC-AKL-CHC
- aircraft 2; AKL-WLG-AKL-ZQN-CHC-AKL-WLG-AKL
- aircraft 3; AKL-CHC-ZQN-AKL-WLG-AKL-CHC-AKL-CHC-AKL
since the change to the patterns the final AKL-CHC-AKL flight of the day JQ257/258 has operated on time most days, this had been regularly delayed under the previous pattern.
