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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Airbus A321NEO ZK-NNF delivered / enters service

Airbus A321NEO ZK-NNF was pressed into service ahead of time and conducted a series of domestic services 25 July 2019. It's first flight was as NZ522 from Christchurch to Auckland, then back to Christchurch as NZ527 before conducting a second round trip to Auckland and back.


ZK-NNF arriving into Christchurch following its second commercial flight, T McFarlin photo



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Posted 19 July 2019:

Air New Zealand's sixth 214 seater Airbus A321NEO has been delivered with ZK-NNF MSN 8839 arriving into Christchurch on the evening of 18 July 2019 as ANZ6099 concluding its delivery flight from Hamburg/Finkenwerder via night stops at Muscat, Kuala Lumpur and Cairns. 
ZK-NNF first flew on 02 July 2019 wearing Airbus test registration D-AVYR and callsign AIB839A. A second flight was conducted a week later and the third and final flight on 11 July. 

ZK-NNF is set to enter service flying between Christchurch and Brisbane on 27 July 2019. 

The next new aircraft for the Air New Zealand Group is due for delivery before month's end with the pending arrival of ATR72-600 ZK-MVZ MSN1562. Its first flight was conducted from/to Toulouse on 15 July 2019 wearing test registration F-WWET.


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