While in Nelson on 18 November I caught the 5 airlines flying into the city...
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| Air New Zealand, flying to Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington |
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| Air2there flying to Paraparaumu |
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| Kiwi Regional Airlines flying to Dunedin and Hamilton |
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| Originair flying to Palmerston North and Wellington |
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| Sounds Air flying to Paraparaumu and Wellington |
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| Jetstar... soon to be Nelson's sixth airline flying to Auckland and Wellington. The counters are ready and are just waiting for the aeroplanes... the first of which will fly to Nelson on a familiarisation flight today. Thanks for the photo Warwick! |
Actually they should change the map to 8 destinations. As Kiwi continues onto Queenstown after Dunedin. By next year they will offer NSN-ZQN non stop as well.
ReplyDeleteYea, not so much.
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Have they manged to get a hold of a Saab 340B+, or will they be attempting to use their current Saab 340A for the NSN-ZQN non-stop route ?
ReplyDeleteKRA are still in that steady as she goes mode. The 340B would replace the A as main plane leaving it to shorter routes and charter work. Love chatting to EW and others at KRA regarding routes... Tauranga is a favoured start up as there is no competition to such a popular city and a link through NSN and ZQN a really good possibility. KRA won't go near the 3 main centres, as Originair is realizing, too saturated with cheap seats.
ReplyDeleteSo who will try NSN-TRG first - Originair or Kiwi??? Personally I think ZQN-DUD is a waste of space so base the plane at Hamilton... Then HLZ-NSN-DUD and return how ever many times per week... Then HLZ-NSN-TRG return as a second route on other days.
DeleteKRA are axing ZQN from 30 November
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I think both Kiwi and Origin should combine to become one airline. They got no overlapping routes and both have routes through Nelson so complement each other. There would be back of house operations savings. The only problem would be Robert and Ewan would both want to be the CEO.
ReplyDeleteCode-share or an interline agreement perhaps, but can't see Originair and Kiwi Regional combining easily in the short term.
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