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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:
Air New Zealand Link ATR72-500 at Palmerston North Airport Gulfstream G650 VP-CJR visiting the small regional airport late 2016. Palmerston North Airport (IATA: PMR, ICAO: NZPM), originally called Milson Aerodrome, is an airport in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand, serving Palmerston North and the Central North Island regions.
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 ]
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 ...
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.
This is a list of the busiest airports in New Zealand by passenger numbers and aircraft movements. Passenger numbers are tabulated annually at the end of the financial year (30 June, for the majority of airports). The top 15 airports are shown.
Queenstown International Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is an international airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, which serves the resort town of Queenstown.The airport handled 2.10 million passengers as of 2024, [3] making it the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.