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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Welcome Back to New Zealand American Airlines

Dallas-Fort Worth based mega carrier American Airlines has recommenced seasonal services to Auckland for the third summer in a row. Using General Electric powered Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, American Airlines will operate daily services between Los Angeles and Auckland with the first flight, AA83, touching down in NZ on the morning of 30 October 2018 with N834AA operating the first service. 
N834AA readies for departure from Auckland 14 March 2018. 
Services, codesharing with Qantas,  will operate through until 30 March 2019. 


The carrier has 40 Dreamliners in services, half of which are the larger -9 configured with 30 business, 21 premium economy and 234 economy seats. Their most recent example, N838AA, was delivered 07 September 2018.

With the reintroduction of United and American to the NZ market there are now upto 59 flights per week to North America.
Air New Zealand 3 x Auckland-Chicago (starting 30 November)
Air New Zealand 4 x Auckland-Honolulu
Air New Zealand 14 x Auckland-Los Angeles
Air New Zealand 7 x Auckland-Houston
Air New Zealand 7 x Auckland-Vancouver
Air New Zealand 7 x Auckland San Francisco
United Airlines 7 x Auckland-San Francisco
American Airlines 7 x Auckland-Los Angeles
Hawaiian Airlines 3-4 x Auckland-Honolulu


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