Many thanks to Wes from Paraparaumu Beach who sent in these pics from the Kapiti Coast Airport open day on Sunday ahead of Air Chathams' launch of services. Wes writes...
Not sure if you or any of your other contributors were at the Open-day at PPQ today or not, but in case you don't get any other pics I thought I'd send some rough snaps through. Apologies for the average quality; they were only taken on my phone.
The event got a great roll-up from what I saw! I was there fairly late in the day - well after the peak visitors if the car parking around the streets was anything to go by - and there were still loads of people wandering around. The weather wasn't great either, which makes the attendance even more impressive. Along with the decent levels of forward bookings for the new PPQ-AKL service, this seems to be a good demonstration that Air NZ's cancelation wasn't due to lack of community support.
Great little expo of NZ's smaller players!
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| Air Chathams' classic DC-3 was doing joyrides around the Kapiti area |
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| air2there are using Originair's Jetstreams to maintain their services from Paraparaumu to Nelson and Blenheim at present. air2there's schedule seems to have been drastically reduced. |
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| The new player on the block... Air Chathams Saab 340 ZK-KRA was obviously creating a lot of interest. |
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| Sounds Air also operate flights from Paraparaumu to both Blenheim and Nelson. Pilatus PC12 ZK-PLS (pictured) and Cessna Caravan ZK-PDM were both on display |
Was a fantastic day, Rain came and went a few times with a heavy pour around midday, otherwise was overcast! Now bring on the inaugural for Air Chathams!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Also,I think you mean the schedule HAS been reduced substantially. P.S big fan of yours
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