Air New Zealand operated an Airbus A320 to the island of Niue for the first time with ZK-OJE operating what is normally a 737 service from/to Auckland.
Sunday 04 July 2010
Air New Zealand inaugurated services from Sydney to Rarotonga direct one a week using Boeing 767-300 equipment. ZK-NCK operated the first service which originated at Auckland as NZ105 and then to Rarotonga and back to Auckland (arriving Monday morning) as NZ49.
Beech King Air 200 VH-OWN flew south from Taupo to Christchurch and later onto Queenstown.
Monday 05 July 2010
Nil significant
Tuesday 06 July 2010
Citation X VH-RCA departed Queenstown just on midday for Brisbane and later to Sydney.
Wednesday 07 July 2010
Challenger 604 VH-VRE arrived at Queenstown shortly after sunrise this morning from Perth and just 30 minutes later was joined by Gulfstream 450 N432AS from Papeete.
As a result of Airwork's Boeing 737 freighter ZK-NQC being unservicable, DHL's Boeing 727 freighter VH-DHE made a special flight from Auckland to Christchurch and back before sunrise today.
Thursday 08 July 2010
Outside the normal 'boundaries' of this blog but something I record is activity around the Pacific. Nadi, Fiji, has been busy in recent days with visitors and today was no exception with Air Tractor 802 N85152 departing for Coolangatta as it neared the end of its delivery flight, Global Express XRS N57LE making a brief stop on its way from Auckland to San Diego/Brown Field, Global Express XRS VH-LAW arriving from Sydney and joining Gulfstream 550 N773MJ on the ramp which had arrived 04Jul from Long Beach. Overflying Nadi in the early hours of the morning was King Air 200 VH-VAI on its way from Apia to Brisbane and Orange, and then during the evening Perth based Global Express XRS VH-ZXH crossed overhead enroute from its home port to Honolulu. Visiting Nadi earlier this week was Gulfstream 5 N54KB and Global Express N393BZ along with Learjet 36 VH-JCX!
Also known to be visiting the Pacific is Global Express EC-JIL, currently at Noumea having arrived their 03Jul from Chitose as "MANGO 769" and it shared the ramp briefly with Falcon 2000EX VH-CRW which later departed for Koror and Shangai/Hongqiao. Across at Rarotonga is Falcon 900 VP-BMB, callsign "LONGTAIL 2", with this aircraft arriving from Maui 02Jul local date. Challenger 605 N721ST arrived at Port Vila from Lihue and Majuro 02Jul.
Pacific Aerospace 750XL ZK-KAX flew from Hamilton to Ohakea and back today. This aircraft was noted on Tuesday at Hamilton in an all white livery and fitted with a parachute roller door.
Qantas operated Airbus A330-200 VH-EBL on their QF141 Sydney-Auckland and QF25 Auckland-Los Angeles service with the aircraft wearing One World titles.
John Rankin photo
Citationjet CJ1+ VH-LDH arrived at Auckland from Norfolk Island today. The Citationjet had departed from the Sunshine Coast for Townsville, Port Moresby and Honiara 05Jul, flew onto Port Vila 06Jul and to Norfolk Island 07Jul.
John Rankin photo
