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Airways New Zealand (Airways Corporation of New Zealand Limited) is the sole Air Traffic Service provider in New Zealand. The company was created 1987 as a State-Owned Enterprise having formerly being a division of the Ministry of Transport, a government department. This followed the recommendations of the 1986 Mason-Morris Review. [1]
Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The following is the alphabetic list of all ACCs and their FIRs as of October 2011 [update] :
The New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association (NZALPA) is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents commercial pilots and air traffic controllers. NZALPA is affiliated with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations and the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations.
In 2016 due to an increase in need for overnight mail, Freightways upgraded their New Zealand domestic freight fleet from the ageing Convair 580s and 5800s to the bigger and faster Boeing 737-400Fs under the new company name of Parcelair. [13] In 2018 Palmerston North Airport contracted Higgins to reconstruct taxiway bravo and charlie. This ...
The Air New Zealand check-in area is located in the centre of the terminal. There are nine gates that have jetbridges in the domestic terminal. Jetstar domestic A320 services operate from gates 20–23 (jetbridge gates). Gate 24 (tarmac gate) is used by both Jetstar and Air New Zealand's A320 aircraft. Gates 60–63 were used for Jetstar ...
In July 1987, Ansett New Zealand started flying on domestic trunk routes using Boeing 737 aircraft. Also in 1987, the terminal was extended to accommodate Ansett New Zealand and new Air New Zealand lounges; and domestic airbridges were added. Thai Airways began a weekly DC-10 service from Bangkok in November 1988. In March 1989, Air New Zealand ...
Air traffic controlling dates to the early 1920s in the United Kingdom (UK). [4] [5] The first control tower was established in 1920 at Croydon Airport, but it wasn't until the 1922 Picardie mid-air collision that air traffic control gained wider attention. Jimmy Jeffs was issued the first Air Traffic
In 2018, a new air traffic control tower opened next to the airport retail centre. The building was designed by Studio Pacific and Paris Magdalinos Architects. [ 47 ] The eight-storey building is constructed on a 12.5 degree angle as if leaning into the prevailing northerly wind, and is built to stand up to a 10-metre high tsunami wave. [ 48 ]