Thanks to Josh who sent these photos of Sunair Aztecs ZK-FVP and ZK-PIX at Whangarei on 6 September 2016... Last week the Aztecs were used to fly between Whangarei and Kaitaia, up in the morning and back late afternoon so I am assuming Sunair is now flying the doctors service to Kaitaia for the local Health Board instead of Barrier... It looks as if Barrier Air stopped operating their Auckland-Whangarei-Kaitaia service in mid August. Barrier Air still operates a Sunday to Friday Auckland-Kaitaia and a Monday to Friday Kaitaia to Auckland service.
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It looks like they're taking over the old NDAC building to use as a terminal for the doctors flight, and starting a new WRE-HLZ serivce, with connections on to TGA and ROT.
ReplyDelete3 Aztecs to be based in WRE so I think they might try picking up some work to GBA also.
Makes sense... Maybe WRE-NOR-HLZ
ReplyDeleteSaw ZK-FOP at NZNE hasn't moved in a while. ZK-RDT seems to have gone. I wonder if something happened to FOP and they couldn't fly it? I envisage Barrier Air are chartering Sunair to fly their services for the Health board?
ReplyDeleteI dont think there is anything wrong with FOP. I think Barrier Air are just done with PA31s..
DeleteIf they have an aircraft serviceable why are they chartering/leasing Sunair's aircraft? Illogical
DeleteBarrier Air have nothing to do with Sun Air. Barrier Air are no longer serving the NDHB contract. Sun Air are on their own.
DeleteI asked Barrier Air about their WRE flights the other day and the response was "Watch this space. Plenty of work happening behind the scenes"
ReplyDeleteI wonder what ever happened to their HAM services. With one aircraft very impressive to do KAT, GBZ and WRE! I can't really see what they are going to do with WRE, can't compete to AA against the big boy, and how many people want to go from WRE to KAT daily?
DeleteThey have 4 aircraft in operation currently.
DeleteI would love to know what aircraft those four are
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