We are delighted to announce the commencement of services to Napier from Nelson, Hamilton and Palmerston North, from Friday 17 September. Originair’s CEO, Robert Inglis, said the airline’s schedule will offer Nelson and Hawkes Bay travellers, a direct service on Friday and Sunday afternoons, allowing a weekend away with a scheduled flight time of approximately 1 hour. In addition to the direct weekend service, two indirect weekday services will be offered via a brief stop in Palmerston North. Direct services will also be launched between Hawke’s Bay and Hamilton three days per week, offering significant time savings for business and leisure travellers. The airline’s Spring schedule change will add a further peak time flight each Monday morning between Hamilton and Palmerston North. Palmerston North travellers will benefit from the addition of a 7.30am departure direct to Hamilton every Monday. Our popular service between Nelson and Palmerston North will gain an extra flight on Sunday afternoon. Palmerston North based travellers will also be able to fly to Napier on a short direct service on some weekday mornings, returning in the late afternoon. Mr Inglis said that this schedule expansion had been made possible through the recent addition of a further Jetstream 32 aircraft to Originair’s fleet, together with support from Hawke’s Bay, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Nelson Airport companies. The launch of new services will take place shortly before the official opening event of the new Hawke’s Bay Airport terminal in October.
Source : Originair
The schedule, according to the reservations system will be...
Palmerston North - Napier
Dep 0950 Arr 1030 MW
Napier - Palmerston North
Dep 1550 Arr 1630 MW
Napier - Hamilton
Dep 1100 Arr 1200 MW
Dep 1350 Arr 1440 F
Hamilton - Napier
Dep 1430 Arr 1530 MW
Dep 1320 Arr 1410 F
Palmerston North - Hamilton
Dep 0730 Arr 0825 M
Dep 0910 Arr 1010 F
Dep 0950 Arr 1200 MW via NPE
Dep 1530 Arr 1630 F
Dep 1710 Arr 1810 MTuWTh
Hamilton - Palmerston North
Dep 0820 Arr 0920 MTuWTh
Dep 0855 Arr 0955 M
Dep 0900 Arr 1000 F
Dep 1430 Arr 1630 MW via NPE
Dep 1530 Arr 1630 F
Nelson - Palmerston North
Dep 0830 Arr 0920 MW
Dep 1010 Arr 1100 F
Dep 1530 Arr 1620 F
Dep 1540 Arr 1630 Su
Dep 1550 Arr 1640 MTuWTh
Dep 1840 Arr 1930 Su
Palmerston North - Nelson
Dep 0940 Arr 1030 MTuWTh
Dep 1030 Arr 1120 F
Dep 1200 Arr 1250 M
Dep 1700 Arr 1750 MWF
Dep 1720 Arr 1810 Su
Nelson - Napier
Dep 1210 Arr 1320 Fr
Dep 1420 Arr 1530 Su
Napier - Nelson
Dep 1440 Arr 1550 Fr
Dep 1600 Arr 1710 Su
Nelson - Hamilton
Dep 1800 Arr 1920 Su
Hamilton - Nelson
Dep 1820 Arr 1930 Fr
Nelson - Wellington
Dep 1320 Arr 1400 Su
Dep 1640 Arr 1720 Fr
Wellington - Nelson
Dep 1430 Arr 1510 Su
Dep 1750 Arr 1830 Fr
Great to see them expanding hopefully they will do well for them. Just the frequencies are rather light.
ReplyDeleteI never want to knock a Airline expanding and trying new routes, but wonder how thought out this is. PMR-NPE will never ever be a winner in itself, and they will be relying on through traffic from NSN. HLZ-NPE wont be hot either, especially at OG prices. NSN-NPE direct could be a goer depending on schedule.
ReplyDeleteBig call to bring on another J32, A high value asset to operate on what is very lean routes, as has been proved before. Let's hope OG didnt damage their reputation too much with the Hawkes Bay community when they pulled out last time.....
Agree completely on all points.
DeleteDifferent scale I know, but Sunair operated NPE-HLZ over the years and never got any great regular numbers. OG might be operating bigger planes and with slightly cheaper fares, but it's a huge ask! Proof will be in the pudding I guess. But I cannot personally see it lasting more then a year
Thank goodness for HLZ/NPE
ReplyDeleteI see that they are not returning to NPL it might have had poor numbers.
ReplyDeleteI used to fly NPL-NSN every second Sunday before they added NPE to the network and changed all the schedules, rendering them useless for me.
DeleteBut every week there was always roughly 9-11 pax on board. That's not horrible numbers really. I mean it's not a full plane, but it could be worse. Certainly better then what they ever got out of NPE back then.
Not yet at least, but I recall a part of why they left was that Jetstar pulling out of the regions got rid of Originair's ground handling. So that might be a factor in why they haven't returned to New Plymouth
DeleteDon't write off NPL Jarden... Robert Inglis was reported on the blog last month saying... Yes the inter-regional market still exists however, not on short sectors without water barriers where the car is the real competitor. Originair ceased its Napier and New Plymouth services when Jetstar withdrew its operations from these ports. Originair and Jetstar used Swissport as our handling agent at these ports and they ceased providing services with Jetstars withdrawal of operations. We haven’t forgotten these ports for the future.
DeleteInteresting, I wonder who will do their ground handling in Napier in September might be a new out fit. They could also look at serving NSN - TRG as might have some market.
DeleteGuessing it might be JNP aviation, that who they are using in HLZ
DeleteJNP are not located at NPE. And JNP will not be setting up a staff base there for just a few flights a week.
DeleteThey might have to get Air NZ to do it for them in NPE especially if it's only for a couple of flights per week
DeleteCan't see it. Why support a competitor? OG are in direct competition with ANZ on NSN-WLG route and whilst they probably hurt SA more than ANZ any traffic loss is noted. The new NSN-NPE and NSN-PMR-NPE routes are essentially competition for ANZ's NSN-WLG-NPE routes and I suspect losing a few J32 loads a week off the WLG-NPE sector from through traffic originating from NSN will hurt a lot more than the loses on the busy WLG-NSN sector.
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DeleteJNP are not in NPE. Air NZ handle their own Ground Handling
DeleteDoes it really matter? They could do it themselves if they wanted do…
DeleteIt’s only labour…
JNP provides support services to NPE PMR etc if you look on there website. Air New Zealand won't be doing the contract for OG
DeleteIt brings in extra revenue for them. Air NZ use to do a lot of the ground handling for it's competition before as it earns more money for the business.
ReplyDeleteThey did Work for Virgin, Qantas, Fiji Airways and China airlines to name a few.
Things are very very very different nowadays, more so now in this Covid world
DeleteInternational is very different from domestic. All those you list are international with whom they had passenger sharing and other arrangements.
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