Emirates boosting Auckland services, Air New Zealand's Australia call

Emirates will boost its flights to Auckland from Dubai from the end of March to six a week while Air New Zealand is taking bookings for dozens more Australian flights a week from mid-April. A year since aviation collapsed, talk of a two-way transtasman bubble has led Air New Zealand to load more flights into its booking website for Australian cities it has flown to with a skeleton schedule and return to places such as the Sunshine Coast, Cairns and Adelaide - routes it stopped flying last year. Non-stop flights out of Queenstown to Australia are also showing up Air New Zealand's site from April 19. This start date coincides with all of the New Zealand school holidays and would capture a week of Australia's school holidays and include Anzac Day, an important shared day on both sides of the Tasman. Air New Zealand plans to restore its Australian network of nine cities and add another - Hobart - when a two-way quarantine-free travel bubble is launched.<br/>