The addition of another aircraft to the base, will create 50 jobs for pilots, cabin crew and ground crew.
The additional aircraft will give the airline the capacity to add 20 flights per week to the key Auckland-Wellington route, with AKL-Christchurch and WLG-CHC increasing by up to 7 flights per week. JQ will also add flights between Queenstown and Australia with MEL & SYD both getting 1 extra flight.
Although this adds 36 additional flights it is not a gain of 36 flights to the schedule with decreases occurring with MEL-CHC and Gold Coast (OOL)-CHC losing 1 flight per week, while JQ is dropping its ZQN-CHC route with the loss of 5 flights per week. So the net increase in flights is 29/week.
Read the full press release from Jetstar HERE and Wellington International Airport's response HERE
