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Air New Zealand Flight 24 was hijacked on the tarmac at Nadi International Airport, Fiji on 19 May 1987. The flight, operated by a Boeing 747-200 , was making a scheduled refuelling stop while en route from Tokyo Narita to Auckland .
Air New Zealand's 787-9 fleet uses the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. Owing to blade cracking in the engines, Air New Zealand in 2018 altered schedules and dry-leased two Boeing 777-200ER from Singapore Airlines and a Boeing 777-300ER from EVA Air. As of June 2019, the airline was still waiting for the issue to be rectified and return the ...
Air New Zealand has begun another expansion of its international services with flights to Singapore resuming and the opening up of Houston and Buenos Aires. Flights to Houston and Buenos Aires began in December 2015. Air New Zealand ended all Beech 1900D 19 seat flights in 2014/15 and ended air services to Kaitaia, Whakatane and Whanganui.
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
The first ever Air New Zealand Boeing 767 service to Melbourne and the inaugural Air New Zealand Boeing 747–200 service to Los Angeles via Honolulu and Nadi (known as the southern connection) departed in October 1985. [21] In October 1986, Singapore Airlines started Boeing 747 services to the city.
Air New Zealand currently operates a mixed fleet consisting of the Airbus A320, Airbus A320neo family, Boeing 777, and Boeing 787 jet aircraft, as well as a regional fleet consisting of ATR 72 and Bombardier Q300 turboprop aircraft. Air New Zealand was awarded Airline of the Year in 2010 [14] and 2012 [15] by the Air Transport World Global ...
The crash and subsequent inquiry resulted in major changes in Air New Zealand's management. 257 (all) 0 0 0 TE24: 19 May 1987 Boeing 747-200: Nadi International Airport, Fiji During the first of Fiji's coups d'état that year, Air New Zealand Flight 24, flying from Tokyo Narita to Auckland via Nadi, was hijacked at Nadi International Airport ...
Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400. Air Canada ... Total 747-200 Series: 393 747SP March 5, 1976 Pan American World Airways: December 9, 1989 Abu Dhabi Govt. (UAE) 45