New Zealand Aviation NEWS

Love Is In The Air For Kiwi Stars Temperature's not the only thing heating up this Spring  the love lives of some of our favourite celebrities are also sizzling. TV One's Greg Boyed will be pleased his long distance love affair is over he is brought his new bride, gorgeous Swiss singer songwriter Caroline Chevin, home to live. Boyed, an accomplished muso, surprised his TVNZ colleagues by secretly marrying Chevin in Switzerland earlier this year. The new Mrs Boyed is delighted to be here, telling: Me and my suitcase full of Toblerone have just hit New Zealand ground and I am really excited to start my new life Downunder. I want to discover more of this beautiful country, learn about Kiwi culture and hopefully get inspired to make more music." We hope the pair enjoy a long, hot summer. There is plenty of other talk around town about actors, politicians and sports stars hooking up, though many of them were not keen to share their romantic good fortune wit...

New Zealand Airline Works At Reliability Jetstar New Zealand says it is attracting more business customers, thanks to its improved standards of reliability. Grant Kerr, head of New Zealand Jetstar operations, acknowledges that there was a period when the Australian owned Airline often attracted public criticism for breakdowns in communication with its passengers. Jetstar has hit the headlines for such things as having a pregnant woman bumped off a Flight after having already let her fly one leg, and cancelling a Flight which meant fans missed a Lady Gaga concert in Auckland. The Australian LCC, a Qantas subsidiary, says it has about 20.7 percent of the domestic MARKET based on Flights between Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Queenstown and Dunedin, carrying up to 5000 passengers a day. Grant Kerr says the airline has improved its reliability and significantly moved on in its five years as a domestic carrier. The Airline is now tracking less than one Flight cancelled p...

The MARKET for business Jets and Turbine Helicopters is nearly all leisure According to Qwilton Biel, chairman of the helicopter division of the New Zealand Aviation Industry Association, If you walk into our industry forum and talk about fractionals, the attendees will think you’re talking about math. It’s just not a concept that’s caught on in New Zealand. You can drive the whole country north to south in one day. The MARKET for business jets and turbine helicopters is nearly all leisure, and foreign passengers create about 95 percent of the demand. Just eight business jets operate in country, three of which fly with a New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tail number. Auckland based Air National, New Zealand’s largest charter operator, fields a fleet that includes a Jetstream 32 and Westwind II. Iain Ballantyne, the company’s business development manager, said, We know the expense of taking your own Gulfstream from the U.S., so our message is this: fly Air New Ze...

In the next few years where will New Plymouth Airport be heading New Plymouth Youth In Politics has this month confirmed to infonews.co.nz that the airport will be getting a new terminal upgrade. List of changes by 2016 NEW TERMINAL UPGRADE - 2015 EXTRA FLIGHTS TO AUCKLAND,  HAMILTON - HAPPENING NOW MORE ATR 72 PLANES TO ARRIVE/TAKEOFF - HAPPENING NOW MORE PASSENGER NUMBERS - HAPPENING NOW POTENTIAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - 2016+ TERMINAL UPGRADE -  CONFIRMED Starting off with the terminal upgrade. Not much has been revealed about the new terminal however what we do know is that the New Plymouth District Council has confirmed that they are designing a new terminal extension for construction in 2015. The airport's terminal building opened in 1964 and was designed for just 60,000 passengers per year. EXTRA FLIGHTS TO BE ADDED, INCLUIDING HAMILTON FLIGHTS   Extra Flights are to be added by 2016 in addition to the new terminal, these flights will include...