Airlines and Aircraft Manufacturers

British Airways Boeing 747-400 at Hong Kong (2002)©

Airlines

I have compiled a full list of International Airlines Serving New Zealand, including a list of airlines that have served New Zealand in the past.

Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam are the three global airline alliances that increasingly dominate the industry.

Air New Zealand (this link is to its New Zealand site) carries me on most of my business and personal travel. Its former budget subsidiary, which was absorbed back into the main airline in 2008, traded as Freedom Air. Following hearings, the New Zealand Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee issued its 2003/2004 Financial review of Air New Zealand Limited and 2006/2007 Financial review of Air New Zealand Limited.

Australian-owned Qantas, with a fleet of wet-leased B737 aircraft, and Pacific Blue operate cabotage services on New Zealand's main trunk routes.

Nelson-based Origin Pacific, which was New Zealand's other main domestic operator, ceased passenger operations on 10 August 2006.  Tasman Pacific Airlines (which traded as Qantas New Zealand following the purchase of Ansett New Zealand) went into receivership on 21 April 2001.

Air New Zealand Boeing 767-300 at Auckland (2001)©

Japan Airlines B747-400F JA402J at Frankfurt (2006)©

More useful web sites:

• Amadeus provides schedule information
• AirlineRouteMaps.com offers what its title implies
• Jim Liu, a young travel agent in Canada, has been completing an excellent collection of hand-drawn route maps covering from the 1950s onwards
• TheAirDB NEW 
• Airline Route Mapper NEW - download required
• Airline Codes includes details on airport and airline codes
• FlightAware and PASSUR show aircraft movements in the United States. Aircraft tracking software is available from AirNav Systems
• Skytrax offers airline and airport quality ratings
• Flightstats offers information about delays, including for New Zealand
• SeatGuru provides information on aircraft seating plans for individual airlines
• Travel Analytics provides an Airline Carbon Emissions Calculator that gives estimated information on aircraft emissions by sector, aircraft type and airline
• AirSafe.com has airline accident rates while the Aviation Safety Network and Air Crashes Record Office also have interesting data.
• Airliners.net, as well as being a excellent site for aviation photography, provides discussion fora.

Relevant weblogs and other sites include:

New Zealand's International Airports

New Zealand's three main international airports are:

• Auckland (AKL)
• Wellington (WLG)
• Christchurch (CHC)

Regular scheduled trans-Tasman services are also operated out of Hamilton (HLZ) and Dunedin (DUD) by Air New Zealand, and into Queenstown (ZQN) by Air New Zealand and Qantas.

Scheduled nternational services out of Palmerston North (PMR) ceased in 2008.

Airliners

Most of the airliners we see operating international services into New Zealand are made by:

• Boeing - in particular see the weblog Randy's Journal  
• Airbus Industrie

Freedom Air Boeing 737-300 at Wellington (2002)©

As well as aircraft manufactured by Boeing, domestic airlines in New Zealand use, or have recently used, products from:

ATR Bombardier Aerospace BAE SYSTEMS Embraer

Fairchild Dornier Raytheon Saab

Other useful web sites include:

• Airlinerlist.com - aircraft production lists
• Planespotters.net - fleet lists
• Airfleets  
• Airdata - a list of airliners serving New Zealand from Auckland
• RichardAboulafia.com - an aerospace industry consultant
• World Airport Codes NEW 
• The great circle flight path display - calculate the distances between two airports and map the range of a particular aircraft type from an airport.
• GPS Visualizer Geographic Calculators NEW 

Last modified 14 September 2008

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