Christmas Wishes

NZ Aviation Notes
would like to take this opportunity to wish all readers a
SAFE AND FESTIVE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR
period.

NZ Aviation notes will be back in the new year.

Pre-Christmas Notes

Qantas/Jetconnect
Qantas mainline have added a 3rd weekly flight to the SYD-ZQN route for the summer holiday period with QF183/184 operating on Sundays

QF183 SYD-ZQN 0855-1350
QF184 ZQN-SYD 1455-1555

The first flight on Sunday 20-December-2009 was operated by Boeing 737-838 VH-VXE, the last flight is scheduled for Sunday 14-February-2010

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Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand have launched their SYD-ROT service with the inaugural service on Saturday 12-December-2009 being operated by Airbus A320-232 ZK-OJE.
The route is currently operating 1x weekly but this increases to 2x weekly from today Monday 21-December-2009.

The Summer trans-tasman schedule to "regional" airports is as follows.

• SYD-ROT-SYD 2x weekly Mo, Sa
• SYD-ZQN-SYD 2x weekly Tu, Sa
• SYD-DUD-SYD 2x weekly Mo, Fr (Commenced Friday 4-December-2009 operated by ZK-OJD)
  
• BNE-ZQN-BNE 1x weekly Su (Commenced Sunday 20-December-2009 operated by ZK-OJO)
  
• MEL-ZQN-MEL 1x weekly Sa (Commencing Saturday 26-December-2009)
  
• MEL-DUD-MEL 1x weekly Th (commenced Thursday 17-December-2009 operated by ZK-OJG)

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Pacific Blue
Pacific Blue was slightly affected by tropical cyclone Mick which hit Fiji on Monday 14-December-2009, with ZK-PBM and ZK-PBF both doing mid-air turn backs to BNE and SYD respectively.

Pacific Blue was replaced by fellow Virgin group airline V Australia on the SYD-NAN route on Friday 18-December-2009, with the route now being flown by the V Australia 77Ws. This has freed up the Pacific Blue 73H that was on this route. As a result:

SYD-WLG-SYD moves to 5x weekly (weekdays) up from 3x weekly.
AKL-SYD-AKL moves to 11x weekly up from daily

Sunday 20-December-2009 saw:
ZK-PBK operate SYD-NAN-SYD as DJ9155/9154 in lieu of the V Australia 77W.
ZK-PBM operated BNE-VLI-BNE as DJ9181/9180 while
VH-VUN operated the scheduled BNE-NAN-BNE DJ177/176

10 Dec Notes

Time for a bit of a catch up with the notes....

Qantas/Jetconnect
Qantas retired the final Boeing 737-300 in their fleet with the departure of Boeing 737-376 ZK-JNC on Saturday 21-November-2009.

ZK-JNC operated its last revenue service on Monday 09-November-2009 as QF126/125 AKL-BNE-AKL. On Saturday 21-November-2009 it started its final flights as QF6024 AKL-APW-HNL before continuing on Monday 23-November-2009 from HNL-TUS as QF6026.

Boeing 737-476 ZK-JTR returned to service on Thursday 19-November after returning to AKL form its C-check in CHC as QF6171 on Wednesday 18-November-2009.

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Jetstar
Jetstar have reduced their AKL-CHC return services to 5x daily with the removal of JQ257/258 effective Tuesday 1-December-2009.

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Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand have operated a number of charter flights with their A320s from SYD-NAN and return.

• The first was operated by A320 ZK-OJD as NZ1141A/1141B/6240/1144 WLG-SYD-NAN-SYD-WLG

• The second operated with A320 ZK-OJN NZ1103A/1103B/6240 AKL-SYD-NAN-CHC with the aircraft positioning to CHC with a mechanical issue.

• This was then replace by A320 ZK-OJC which then operated the third flights NZ6291/1231/1106A/1106B CHC-SYD-NAN-SYD-AKL

Air New Zealand also carried out route proving exercises into Rotorua on Thursday 26-November-2009 in preparation for the launch of the SYD-ROT-SYD services on December 12th. A320 ZK-OJB operated the flights as NZ6021 AKL-ROT /NZ6023 ROT-local-ROT /NZ6024 ROT-AKL

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Pacific Blue
Pacific Blue have made the following change to their Apia service.

The Tuesday AKL-APW-BNE-APW-AKL has moved to Saturday with the Tuesday flight now only operating AKL-APW-AKL.

Pacific Blue (Aust) introduced Perth-Phuket on Saturday 14-November-2009 with the inaugural DJ4149 being operated by Boeing 737-8FE VH-VUG.
DJ4149/4148 operates twice weekly with the outbound flights tuesday and saturday and the return flights Wednesday and Sunday.

This means a small change with the movement to accomodate this.

The Saturday schedule used to see Pacific Blue operate
AKL-MEL-AKL-RAR-AKL
AKL-OOL-AKL-APW-AKL
this has now changed to
AKL-OOL-AKL-RAR-AKL
AKL-APW-BNE-APW-AKL
with the MEL service operating from CHC
CHC-MEL-AKL-MEL-CHC

Pacific Blue operated another charter to Christmas Island with Boeing 737-8FE VH-VUM positioning from MEL to PER as DJ9051 on Tuesday 1-December-2009 before operating PER-XCH-PER-MEL as DJ9001/9002 on Wednesday 2-December-2009

Trip Report with DJ and NZ

NZ for the weekend, BNE-SYD-CHC//BHE-WLG-CHC-BNE - The Aussie Aviator.Net

For those of you interested this is the trip report I completed on my recent return to NZ for the weekend.