An interesting post from Doug Whitcombe's amazing Aviation Aotearoa Facebook page...
Rekohu / Chatham Islands will welcome its first ever Texel Air Australasia aircraft next week.
(First visit by a Boeing 737 aircraft too.)
Texel will operate it's inaugural freight flight from Auckland Airport to Tuuta - Chatham Islands Airport on Tuesday 1 October 2024, with its Boeing 737-8B5(BCF) ZK-TXE operating the TNZ176 / TNZ175 return services.
Three other freight flights are currently scheduled, with Wednesday 9 October, Tuesday 15 October & Thursday 17 October, all operated by ZK-TXE.
AKL departure as TNZ176: 0930;
CHT arrival: 1145.
CHT departure as TNZ175: 1345;
AKL arrival: 1430.
More Texel Air Australasia freight flights between AKL & CHT are potentially in the future schedule.
Doug suggests that these current flights are due to the ship that is meant to be operating between Chathams & the Mainland being currently out of action.
Our boat has been out of action over the winter as has been well publicized in the media. However has been back plying its trade since mid July. Recently there was an issue with the Southern Tiares Crewing Requirements. This caused a severe delay to a Island bound sailing, thus delaying all other voyages, including over to Pitt.
ReplyDeleteThe flights are bringing infrastructure needed for our new wind farm, as well as other time critical supplies. Would be great to see this become a regular thing. Especially given the ST is very much on its last legs and we cannot keep going without basic necessities when the boat is on survey.
Thank you... that's interesting background information
DeletePCN won’t allow full unrestricted ops, how’s the RFF there too, would need CAT7 a minimum for 738.
ReplyDeleteNot for freight Ops. Cat 7 for pax Ops.
ReplyDeleteThe PCN is down the airport operator. They can issue exemptions.
lucrative 500mt live export product come off that island each year
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