Air NZ to increase capacity over school holidays

Air NZ is ramping up its domestic schedule over the school holidays. The airline said it had added capacity to the majority of its routes during the two-week holiday period, which starts this weekend, bringing its domestic schedule to almost 90% of pre-Covid levels. Compared with the July break, the airline was operating 1000 additional one-way flights these school holidays, general manager networks Scott Carr said. Queenstown was expected to be a popular school holiday destination, with more than 73,000 seats available in and out of the resort town. “Overall capacity to and from Queenstown will operate at 125% during the holidays compared to the same school holiday period last year,” Carr said. Air NZ’s domestic schedule was set to operate at nearly 85% of pre-Covid levels for the month of October.<br/>