Air New Zealand introduced its fourth Airbus A321NEO ZK-NND to service with the aircraft operating from Auckland to Brisbane as NZ739 06 March 2019.
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Posted 25 February 2019:
Air New Zealand's fourth Airbus A321NEO ZK-NND MSN 8629 has concluded its delivery flight from Hamburg/Finkenwerder as NZ6095 with its first stop, Muscat, reached on the evening of 18 February 2019 MCT date. It continued onto Kuala Lumpur and Cairns with night stops at each before arriving into Auckland on the night of 21 February 2019. Entry to service is expected around 06 March 2019.
ZK-NND, using the Airbus test registration D-AVYL, conducted its first flight 29 January 2019 as AIB629A following by another flight on 05 February as AIB629B. A third flight took place 11 February as AIB629C.
The airline's first Airbus A320NEO ZK-NHA MSN 8715 wearing test registration D-AUBR conducted its first flight 18 February 2019 as AIB715A and is slated for delivery to Christchurch in early March, and entry to service on flights out of Christchurch from 10 March 2019.
Meanwhile additional future delivery information has come to light thanks to PVS
Airbus A320NEO ZK-NHB MSN 8803 - test registration D-AUBU - constructed Hamburg
Airbus A320NEO ZK-NHC MSN 8833 - test registration F-WWDE - constructed Toulouse
Airbus A321NEO ZK-NNE MSN 8799 - test registration D-AVZF - constructed Hamburg
Airbus A321NEO ZK-NNF MSN 8839 - test registration D-AVYR - constructed Hamburg
And ATR72-212A (600 series) ZK-MVX MSN 1551 has been noted wearing F-WWEH and still in primer coating as at 09 February 2019.
