New Zealand Aviation NEWS

Air New Zealand looks set to receive some new competition on Regional Routes with Jetstar announcing plans to launch  turboprop operations from December. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier said  on Thursday  it would introduce five 50-seat Bombardier Q300s to connect yet-to-be  determined regional NZ centres to its current domestic NZ network of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and  Dunedin. QantasLink’s Eastern Airlines Australia will operate and manage the Q300 fleet in NZ, Jetstar said. Routes and frequencies  are expected to be announced in September after consultations with Regional Airports, Governments and Business Groups. Hamilton, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Napier, Palmerston North, Nelson and Invercargill are listed as potential new  destinations. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, who made the announcement in Auckland alongside NZ Prime Minister John Key, said  regional communities were “calling out for mo...

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...

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...

Harvard University selects Auckland AIRport for exclusive exhibition AUCKLAND CITY Harvard University Graduate School of Design has selected Auckland AIRport among the best AIRports in the world for an exhibition highlighting excellence in landscape Architecture. The exhibition titled ‘AIRport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age’ celebrates the work of landscape architects that highlight the symbiotic relationship between cities and AIRports. Exhibition curator and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, Dr. Sonja Dümpelmann, says the success of the Auckland AIRport project is founded in the historical and cultural influences of the landscape design. We selected Auckland AIRport because it exhibits a design where the AIRport on the landside seeks to foster a regional and national identity, in this case by using local agricultural patterns and planting features characteristic of the cultures of the indigenous and European settlers. ...

NZ Flight Training to Pump the BOP's Economy with International Education NZ Flight Training is set to take on India on the 9th of April to reach an audience of over 12,000 potential Pilots in the worlds growing Aviation market.We are very excited to be speaking with such a large audience and understand that the economic value that this could generate towards the region would be significant stated Don Thompson NZ Flight Trainings Recruitment Advisor about the 12,000 potential Pilots they have lined up to speak with. They are set to visit 5 expos, 10 locations and have appointments at aviation schools across the county over the month of April.  NZ Flight Training offers an NZ Commercial license along with Multi engine Instrument and Instructors rating.  The duration of the course is approximately 1.5 years.  Their destinations are Kolkata, Ahemdabad, Mumbai, Pune, Kochi, Trivandrum, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai.  India, China, Canada and Brazi...

NZ Flight Training to Pump the BOP's Economy with International Education NZ Flight Training is set to take on India on the 9th of April to reach an audience of over 12,000 potential Pilots in the worlds growing Aviation market.We are very excited to be speaking with such a large audience and understand that the economic value that this could generate towards the region would be significant stated Don Thompson NZ Flight Trainings Recruitment Advisor about the 12,000 potential Pilots they have lined up to speak with. They are set to visit 5 expos, 10 locations and have appointments at aviation schools across the county over the month of April.  NZ Flight Training offers an NZ Commercial license along with Multi engine Instrument and Instructors rating.  The duration of the course is approximately 1.5 years.  Their destinations are Kolkata, Ahemdabad, Mumbai, Pune, Kochi, Trivandrum, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai.  India, China, Canada and Br...