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Air New Zealand bowing out has given other Carriers a chance to step up. Kawerau logging contractor Jacob Kajavala is tipping his safety helmet to Air Chathams, one of the unlikely little Airlines that he believes will help keep rural New Zealand connected. Air Chathams, along with Sounds Air, will from April 28 pick up regional Air services to Westport and Whakatane that Air New Zealand is abandoning because it says they are uneconomic. Air New Zealand's decision has infuriated the Westland and eastern Bay of Plenty communities. Kajavala was one of the business owners who, along with the Whakatane District Council and the chamber of commerce, sought an operator to replace Air New Zealand on the Whakatane run. The answer was Air Chathams, an Airline that has quietly been servicing the Chatham Islands since Mt Cook Airlines quit that service 30 years ago. Kajalava, who regularly used Air New Zealand, said the loss of the service would have been disastrous and adde...

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Rescuers pull a Passenger out of the Trans Asia Airways ATR Plane which Crash Landed in a River in New Taipei City Airlines : TransAsia Airways  Aircraft : ATR 72 Plane ATR 72-600 Aircraft  City  :  New Taipei City TransAsia Chief Executive Apologizes After Air Plane Crashes into Taiwan river A TransAsia Airlines ATR 72 Air Plane carrying 58 people Crashed into a shallow river in Taipei, Taiwan, shortly after takeoff Wednesday morning, killing at least ... Dramatic dashcam footage in Taiwan shows a TransAsia Airways Plane scraping past a major highway moments before it careened into a shallow river. Reports are coming in that a TransAsia Airways Plane has Crashed in a Taipei river, injuring ten people.  TransAsia Plane Crashes in Taiwan river - rolling … are emerging of the rescue operation still underway. Rescuers pull a passenger out of the TransAsia Airways Plane which Crash landed in a river, in ... TransAsi...