New Zealand Aviation NEWS

Try Before You Buy, as Air New Zealand Shows Off New Seats in San Francisco The folks over at Air New Zealand are pretty darn excited to offer up some cool seats on their newest non stop 777-300 service between Auckland and San Francisco, and they are about to brag all over the Bay City. Service between the cities is not actually new, but the Airline used to fly Boeing 747s on it. Now that those big birds have been retired from their fleet, the 777 is doing the heavy lifting. With this Aircraft switch comes a new and improved cabin for the 12 hour Flight, finally including those futuristic SpaceSeats in premium economy and the comfy SkyCouch in economy. We know the Airline is no stranger to doing things a little different when it comes to upgrades, in Flight safety vids and cheap Flights, so don't be shocked when you see those seats taking a tour of San Fran in a glass sided truck for the city to sample. With a few stops around SF and San Jose, the truck will be giving ...

Air New Zealand’s moody Dreamliner; Dinosaur Designs opens in London AIR New Zealand’s long awaited new Dreamliner 787-9 Aircraft promises an enhanced on board experience and for this passenger at least it certainly did not disappoint. The new planes, which will officially start flying from Auckland to Perth on October, have bigger cabin windows, softer lighting, higher humidity and a lower cabin altitude. But what do these features actually mean You feel as if you are in a movie theatre more than on a plane, kilometres in the Air. There is no horrible Air blowing out of vents above you, it is much quieter and you can control the lighting by dimming your cabin windows there are no shutters to pull down, just different lighting settings. As a result, the mood lighting is wonderful. The leather seats in the Premium Economy are wide and very comfortable there is plenty of legroom and an entertainment system that has a dedicated HBO channel which you can hear properly thanks to the...